Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 5 Adhesion Commission

Subject Files

Dept. of the Interior, RG 15, Series D II 1, Dominion Lands Branch, Correspondence, Headquarters, 1871-1946, 213.6 m, vols. 227 to 1176; Microfilm reels T-12176 to T-15542.

A numerically arranged series of subject files created by the Dominion Lands Branch. The series touches on all aspects of land management and natural resource administration by the Department of the Interior, including Métis land claims. The records included in this series contain general correspondence and departmental memoranda relating to rulings, policy, and procedures, which governed the operations of all the Scrip Commissions, including the Treaty 5 (Northern Manitoba Adhesion) Commission. The files in this series are numbered sequentially from 1 to 5,644,152 and are listed, in numerical order, in finding aid FA15-5. The series also contains all the case files relating to the awards given to individual Métis families under P.C. 1114. The case files relating to the Treaty 5 Commission would appear to start around file number 1,700,000. The case files are index in Archives Search under the name of the claimant The claims register (see description elsewhere) will provide researchers with the names of all the claimants under Order-in-Council, P.C. 1114. A copy of finding aid FA15-5 is available elsewhere in Archives Search.