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free township Hist. 
in Quebec, a township in which the farmers were not subject to seigneurial obligations as was the case until 1854 on the older seigneuries.
- 1929 Farther east they founded "free" townships instead of feudal seigneuries to the south of the St. Lawrence and on the lower Ottawa.
- 1929 Farther east they founded "free" townships instead of feudal seigneuries to the south of the St. Lawrence and on the lower Ottawa.