Collection search - Order in Council - List of Scrip Issued

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).

To use this list, researchers will need to know the case file number of the claimant. This may be obtained by using the delivery register, RG 15, volume 1520, which is part of the sub-series "Registers and Indexes relating to Métis and Original White Settlers land records" (item ID number 156370).