Collection search - Lafournaise, St Pierre dit Laboucanne; heir to his deceased children: Marie Anne, born: 13 Sept., 1881 at Duck Lake; died: 1898 at St. Paul des Metis; Jean Baptiste, born: 23 Sept., 1882 at Cypress Hills; died: 1 month old at Saskatoon; address: St. Paul des Metis; father: St. Pierre Lafournaise (Métis and deponent); mother: Marie Rose Ross (Métis); scrip cert.: form F, No 740 and 742; claim no. 2039

Scrip was a certificate issued by the Department of the Interior which indicated the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of money or land. The federal government distributed scrip to the Métis in exchange for their land rights, as a method of extinguishing their Aboriginal title to the land. The federal government also used scrip to distribute land to white settlers, including Original White Settlers, soldiers, and police who fought in the North West Resistance of 1885 (or North West Rebellion of 1885).