Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 8 (Adhesion) Commission

Applications

Dept. of the Interior, RG 15, Series D II 8c, Applications, 1886-1906, 8.85 m, vols. 1333 to 1371; microfilm reels C-14943 to C-15010.

This series contains applications for scrip by Métis living in the North-West Territories. The applications date from 1886 to 1906 and were received by the North-West Commission, the Alberta-Saskatchewan Commission, and the Treaty 8, 10, and 5 Commissions, including their various adhesions. Each application gives the name of the applicant, his/her residence, place and date of birth, name of parents and origins, martial status, etc. The applications have been integrated and filed alphabetically by name of the applicant, see finding aid FA15-21, parts 1 to 15. This finding aid is also available on microfilm reel C-14943. An electronic copy of the finding aid is available in Archives Search

To obtain a listing of all applicants who appeared before the Treaty 8 Adhesion Commission, researchers should refer to the separate claims registers established by Macrae (RG 15, volume 1513 or 1514) and Conroy (RG 15, volume 1512), all of which are described in greater detail in the section entitled "Register/Indexes".

If researchers can not find a particular application in this series (this is usually the case with applications accepted by Conroy), they should probably investigate the central registry files of the Dominion Lands Branch, RG 15, series D II 1 (which is described elsewhere). It is always possible that the application was withdrawn by departmental administrators and set up as a separate case file with a central registry number. This procedure appears to have been a common practice whenever an application required special consideration by the department. By creating a separate case file on a particular scrip application, the department could keep all its correspondence concerning the application together in a single location. For example, according to the register compiled by Henry A. Conroy (RG 15, volume 1512), all the applications accepted by him in 1903, 1905, 1907, and 1908 were put into case files. The case file numbers are cross-indexed in the registers.