Registers and indexes relating to Métis and Original White Settlers land records [textual record]

This 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.

The aperture cards in this sub-series were created by a successor to the Department of the Interior sometime between 1948 and 1970. They were copied from original registers and ledgers. The aperture cards were then transferred to the National Archives in the early 1970s.

RG15 Aperture Card books were available in the LAC reference room until January 2023.

See reels C-11872 to C-11885 and Aperture Cards Books Nos. 58-133, 158, 161, 167 and 183 for microfilmed copies of these records.

No further accruals are expected.

Please note aperture card books 158, 161, 167, and 183, which depict four of the original registers in this sub-series, are found in the Registers and indexes of land grants sub-sub-series, see R190-100-7. Other aperture cards within that series may also be of interest.