Soon after the fall of New France in 1760, the British minority in Quebec became interested in seigneurial property and would own nearly 50% of the seigneuries at the time of the abolition of the seigneurial system in 1854. Seigneurial landowners of Anglo-Protestant decent therefore constituted a quasi-majority within the group of seigneurs, but they nonetheless remained part of the English linguistic and cultural minority in the province. However, the Campbell’s, Cuthbert’s, Christie’s, Fraser’s, Nairne’s, Hale’s and Harwood’s were important figures of socioeconomic, linguistic and religious otherness within their communities. Oral history research conducted among descendants of seigneurial families in Quebec, many of whom were native English-speakers, has brought to light memories that idealize the seigneur/tenant relationship, which differs greatly from the conflicts recorded in the archives. These memories also revealed shared elite values marked by the bilingualism and biculturalism of these families, values that have been passed on to their descendants and remain to this day.