Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Manitoba and North-West Territories 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 all the cancelled notes for land scrip awarded by the Department of the Interior to Métis claimants of the North-West Territories. The notes issued by the Manitoba and North-West Territories 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 North-West scrip commissions. As previously noted, all claimants for land scrip under P.C. 575 were awarded 240 acres (unlike earlier Commissions, there was no distinction made between heads of families and children).

The land scrip retained by Library and Archives Canada are grouped according to the amount of the scrip, and in numerical order (registration number) 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 registration number. To find the note awarded to a particular claimant when the registration number of the scrip note is unknown, researchers should first refer to the delivery register (RG 15, volume 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.