There's a delightful book:
"La Prairie en Nouvelle-France, 1647-1760, Étude d'histoire sociale"
History: Canada: Quebec, History: Canada: Pre-confederation Canada, Quebec Studies
La Prairie, under the French régime, was one of the earliest and most populous seigneuries of the Montreal district. Written and published in French, Louis Lavallée's study of peasant society in La Prairie begins in 1647 when the seigneury was conceded to the Jesuits, the most important landowners in New France, and ends with the Conquest. Lavallée discusses La Prairie's status as a frontier and way-station, its remarkable demographic growth -- the population had reached nearly two thousand in 1760 -- and the importance of the seigneurial and parochial frameworks in its development. These last bounded people's lives, giving the inhabitants of La Prairie a sense of financial and domestic structure. The second part of the book covers sociability, inheritance practices, the fur trade, and the form of stratification which prevailed in this traditional society.
Parish registers, notarial acts, administrative and judicial archives were used extensively to provide a comprehensive view of the formation and evolution of this society in its seigneurial context. In La Prairie en Nouvelle-France the seigneury comes into its own as a vantage point from which to view Canadian society under the French régime. The comparative approach that informs the entire work permits parallels and contrasts between colonial and metropolitan societies.
The book isn't available in English but I was able to translate bits and pieces which yielded the following is a list of my family ancestors mentioned in the book, on pages 144-159.
BARETTE (Guillaume Barette 1633-1717, 8th great-grandfather)
BOURASSA (Francois Bourassa 1659-1708, 7th great-grandfather)
BOYER (Charles Boyer 1631-1698, 9th great-grandfather)
CARON (Claude I Caron 1641-1708, 8th great-granduncle)
CUSSON (Marie Jeanne Cusson 1663-1738, 8th great-grandaunt w/o Joachim Jacques Leber 1664-1695, 7th great-granduncle)
DENEAU (Jacques Deniau Dit Destaillis)
DESROCHERS (Jean Baptiste Desroche(r)s 1649-1743, 7th great-grandfather???)
DIEL (Charles Diel dit Le Petit Breton 1652-1702, 8th great-grandfather)
DUPUIS (François Dupuis 1634-1681, 8th great-grandfather)
DUQUET (Etienne Duquet dit Desrochers 1695-1753, 6th great-grandfather)
GAGNE (Pierre Gagne (Gagnier) 1645-1726, 8th great-grandfather)
LEBER (Francois Leber (Le Bert, Lebert) 1626-1694, 8th great-grandfather)
LEMAISTRE (Denise Lemaistre 1636-1691, 9th great-grandmother)
LEMIEUX (Gabriel Lemieux 1663-1739, 8th great-grandfather)
MARIE, dit Sainte-Marie (Marie Elizabeth Marier dit Lemarier DNA match 1740-1831, 5th great-grandmother)
MOREAU (Gabrielle Louise Moreau 1694-1750, 7th great-grandmother)
PERRAS (Pierre Peras (Perras) dit La Fontaine 1616-1684, 9th great-grandfather)
PINSONNEAU (François Pinsonneau dit Lafleur 1646-1731, 7th great-grandfather)
POUPART (Pierre Poupart (Poupard) 1653-1699, 8th great-grandfather)
ROBIDOU (Andre Robidou dit L’Espagnol 1643-1678, 9th great-grandfather)
ROY (Madeleine Roy 1684-1726, wife of 8th great-granduncle (Jean Perras dit Lafontaine 1668-1736)
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