Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 8 Commission

Land Scrip

Dept. of the Interior, RG 15, Series D II 8i, Land Scrip to Métis, 1885-1917, 1.1 m, vol. 1406 to 1410.

Cancelled scrip notes issued to Métis claimants by the Department of the Interior in exchange for the extinguishment of their Indian title. The grants were for a total of 240 acres of homestead lands, and were allotted in scrip notes of 80 acres and 160 acres. RG 15, volumes 1539 and 1543 (described elsewhere) serve as location registers for scrip notes of 160 acres; and volumes 1540 and 1544 (described elsewhere) for scrip notes of 80 acres. Scrip notes issued in fractional acres - as in the case of scrip acquired through an inheritance - are listed in RG 15, volume 1541 (described elsewhere). All the above registers are organized by scrip number, with each entry providing the name of the allottee, the name of the patentee, the land description, acreage, date of patent, and the liber and folio numbers of the Letters Patent, which are now retained by Library and Archives Canada in RG 15, series D II 10.

The land scrip retained by Library and Archives Canada is grouped according to the amount of the scrip (i.e., 80 acres or 160 acres), and in numerical order within each group. Finding aid FA15-13 will guide researchers to the volume in RG 15 where the note is stored; but to use this finding aid researchers must know the scrip number. To find the note awarded to a particular claimant when the number of the scrip note is unknown, researchers should first refer to the delivery registers (RG 15, volumes 1519 and 1520, described elsewhere) to obtain the scrip note number, and then to finding aid FA15-13 to find the RG 15 volume number where the note is stored.