Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 8 (Adhesion) 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.

This series contains cancelled notes for land scrip awarded by the Department of the Interior to Métis claimants of the former North-West Territories. The notes issued by the Treaty 8 Adhesion 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. All claimants for land scrip under the Treaty 8 Adhesion Commission were awarded 240 acres (unlike earlier Commissions, there was no distinction made between heads of families and children). The grants were allotted in scrip of one 80 acre note and one 160 acre note.

The land scrip retained by Library and Archives Canada are grouped according to the amount of the scrip (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 a particular scrip note when the scrip number is unknown, researchers should refer to the various claims registers which were established by Commissioners Macrae and Conroy, and which are now retained in RG 15, series D II 8m, as volumes 1512, 1513, 1514, and 1528 (see descriptions elsewhere). Volume 1514 is an alphabetical index to all the claims investigated by J.A. Macrae. The index will provide researchers with the individual's claim number. Researchers can then use this number to find the claimant's entry in the main claims register, volume 1513. The latter will provide information on the type of scrip awarded to each claimant, the scrip number, the scrip delivery date, and the place of delivery. Volume 1512, on the other hand, is an alphabetical index to all subsequent claims investigated in 1903, 1905, 1907, and 1908 in the Treaty 8 adhesion area by H.A. Conroy. If land scrip was awarded by Conroy, the scrip number is indicated. Alternatively, researchers can also use the delivery register (RG 15, volume 1520, described elsewhere) to obtain the scrip note number, and then finding aid FA15-13 to find the RG 15 volume number where the note is stored.