Arpent

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Arpent

1. An obsolete measure of length approximately equivalent to 58.47 meters.

2. An obsolete measure of length approximately equivalent to 0.85 acres.

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Purchased in 1796 by Martin Nadault, it was originally described as containing "six arpens in front, and extending to River Aux Raisins, bounded east by lands now claimed by Baptiste Fontaine [and] west by lands claimed by Antoine Riopel."

For more than 200 years ... one family's farm

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