Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 5 Adhesion 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. However, the majority of claims settled by Semmens under P.C. 1114, 12 May, 1908, were for land scrip. There were only a few instances when money scrip was awarded, and in all cases these claims were processed by the Department in 1910. The few notes issued by the Treaty 5 Commission are not identified in this series as a separate block of records, but instead are inter-filed with the notes awarded by other Métis scrip commissions. All claims for money scrip under Treaty 5 were awarded $240 which was issued as one $80 note and one $160 note. Recipients of money scrip awarded by Semmens are listed in volume 1516.

The scrip notes are retained by Library and Archives Canada in their numerical order. All the recipients of $80 scrip are listed in finding aid FA15-24, parts 19 to 22; and of $160 scrip in finding aid FA15-24, parts 23 to 25. 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 register (RG 15, volume 1520, described elsewhere) to obtain the scrip note number, and then to the appropriate parts of finding aid FA15-24 to find the RG 15 volume number where the note is stored.