Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 8 Commission

Money Scrip

Dept. of the Interior, RG 15, Series D II 8f, Money Scrip to Métis, 1876-1927, 3.0 m, vols. 1387 to 1403.

This series contains all the cancelled notes for money scrip awarded by the Department of the Interior to Métis claimants of the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. The notes issued by the Treaty 8 Commission are not identified in this series as a separate block of records, but instead are inter-filed with the notes awarded by all the Métis scrip commissions. The scrip was awarded to Métis heads of families and to children of Métis heads of families in the amount of $240. The payment was broken down into notes of $80 (numbers A1501 to A2039) and $160 (numbers A10001 to A10540). With the exception of most of the residents of Lesser Slave Lake, recipients of the $80 scrip are listed, in order of scrip number, in finding aid FA15-24, part 19; and the recipients of the $160 scrip notes are listed in finding aid FA15-24, part 23. Scrip recipients living at Lesser Slave Lake (both $80 and $160 scrip) are listed in the first half of finding FA15-24, part 27. All three finding aids note the scrip number, the date of issue, the amount awarded, the certificate number, the date the certificate was issued, the name of the recipient, and remarks. In some cases, the "remarks" column provides the land description to which the scrip was applied, the patentee's name, and/or the name of the person or company to which the scrip was assigned.

To find the money scrip awarded to a specific claimant when the scrip number is unknown, researchers will have to obtain the registration number from the delivery registers (RG 15, volumes 1519 and 1520, described elsewhere). These registers are organized alphabetically, according to the last name of the claimant. Researchers can then use this number to find the appropriate entry in finding aid 15-24 which will then provide the RG 15 volume number where the original document is stored.