In the seigneurial system used in New France (Quebec), a côte was a row of farm lots that were leased by the seigneur to the tenant farmers. This name was used on the Island of Montreal, no doubt because of the mountain ( côte literally means "hillside"); elsewhere in Quebec they were called rangs or concessions. The word survives in a number of place names such as Côte-Vertu and Côte-Sainte-Catherine.