Métis Scrip Records

Commissions

Treaty 5 Adhesion 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 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 all the North-West scrip commissions. All claims for land scrip under Treaty 5 were issued 240 acres which was usually awarded as one 80 acre note and one 160 acre note. The recipients of land scrip awarded by Semmens are listed in volume 1516.

The land scrip retained by Library and Archives Canada is grouped according to the amount of the scrip (either 80 acres or 160 acres), and in numerical order 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 number. 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 finding aid FA15-13 to find the RG 15 volume number where the note is stored.