Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Alberta/Assiniboia and Saskatchewan/Manitoba Commissions

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 the Métis scrip commissions. It also contains case files relating to the awards given to individual Métis families. The files are numbered sequentially from 1 to 5,644,152 and are listed, in numerical, order in finding aid FA15-5. The majority of the operational records (i.e., non-case files) pertaining to Métis grants under the Alberta-Saskatchewan Commission are indexed in Archives Search under the following keywords: scrip and Half-Breed. Case files relating to the Alberta-Saskatchewan Commission, on the other hand, are generally indexed under the name of the claimant. A copy of the electronic finding aid is available in Archives Search.