Recherche dans la collection - Register of delivery of patents no. 5

Some of the patents referred to in the register are scrip documents, which are foundational documents of the Métis Nation. 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).

Title is based on the contents of the file.

The images attached to this record were digitized from the aperture card book in R190 vol 3319.