Collection search - Métis and Original White Settlers affidavits [textual record]

This sub-series contains scrip documents, which are foundational documents of the Métis Nation. In the late 18th century in the northwest, the Métis people coalesced into a distinct nation with their own culture, traditions, and language (Michif). Their homeland extends across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, as well as parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Northern United States. Scrip certificates indicated the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of money or land. Scrip was distributed to the Métis by the federal government of Canada in exchange for their land rights as a method of extinguishing their Aboriginal title to the land.

Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.

See reels C-14925 to C-14934 for microfilmed copies of these records.

No further accruals are expected.

The Registers and indexes relating to Métis and Original White Settlers land records sub-series within this fonds (RG15-D-II-8-m) contains the following: an index to the affidavits filed by Métis children (Vol. 1526); an index to the affidavits filed by Métis heads of families (Vol. 1525); affidavits pertaining to claims under the Manitoba Supplementary Claim Commission, P.C. 810, 20 April, 1885 (Métis claims only in Vol. 1527 and both Métis and Original White Settlers claims in Vol. 1506); an index to the affidavits associated with the claims of Original White Settlers under the Manitoba Act, 33 Vic., c. 3, prior to the Manitoba Supplementary Claims (Vol. 1510). All these volumes are described in greater detail in finding aid 15-58.