Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 10 Commission

Applications

Dept. of the Interior, RG 15, Series D II 8c, Applications, 1886-1906, 8.85 m, vols. 1333 to 1371; microfilm reels C-14943 to C-15010.

This series contains applications for scrip made by Métis residents of the North-West Territories. The records date from 1886 to 1906 and were received by all the Commissions post-dating the North-West Commission of 1885, except the Treaty 11 (Mackenzie River District) Commission. Each application gives the name of the applicant, his/her residence, place and date of birth, name of parents and origins, martial status, etc. The applications are filed alphabetically by name of the applicant. Finding aid FA15-21, parts 1 to 15, is an alphabetical index to these records. It is also available on microfilm reel C-14943. An electronic copy of this finding aid is also available elsewhere in Archives Search.

If researchers can not find a particular application in this series, they should probably investigate the central registry series of the Dominion Lands Branch, RG 15, series D II 1 (described elsewhere). It is always possible that the application was withdrawn by departmental administrators and placed in a separate case file. This procedure appears to have been a common practice whenever an application required special consideration by the department. By creating a separate case file on a particular scrip application, the department could keep all its correspondence concerning the application together in a single location.

For a complete listing of all the scrip applications collected under Order-in-Council, P.C. 1459, 20 July, 1906, researchers should refer to the claims registers, i.e., RG 15, volumes 1515 or 1537 and volume 1516 (all of which are described elsewhere).