FInding Metis Scrip

9/24/2018

Are you Métis, or do you think that your ancestors were Métis? Proving this is often more complicated than simply finding a long lost "Indian ancestor" and making the claim to being Métis based on having a drop of Indian blood.

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the settlements awarded by the federal government to the Métis inhabitants of Manitoba and the former North-West Territories. The records created by the scrip commissions, and the Department of the Interior in its administration of federal land policies, are now consulted by a wide range of users. The records have become particularly important, however, in two key areas: in the debate surrounding Métis allegations into the mishandling of their rights, as an Aboriginal people, by the federal government; and in family histories, especially with those seeking re-instatement under the Indian Act.

The Library and Archives of Canada have a search engine that can direct a researcher to a photocopy of the original scrip document, or at least give a reference number to the library collection.

The link to do the search is accessible through the link below:

CLICK TO SEARCH FOR SCRIP

5 Comments

chartrand

9/24/2018 08:50:03 pm

wondering if my parents had script

Robert Lee Lavenger

9/24/2018 11:13:34 pm

My Gramma Francoise Leveille Laverdure

Parenteau

9/25/2018 06:40:05 pm

I want to know if my great grandfather Joseph Parenteau had land titles in Manitoba or Saskatchewan

Wayne Fiddler

9/26/2018 02:05:31 pm

Fidler is the real way our last name is suppose to be. My grandfather Joseph Leonard Fiddler changed it from Fidler to Fiddler.

LEW MEARNS link

9/28/2018 08:47:20 pm

My Great Grand Father Octave Majeau!

How do we see if we can get this resolved?

Petition from the Residents of Edmonton Signed by Octave Majeau
Covering Letter Dated May 19th 1880.
To the Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald, C.B., Minister of the Interior, &c., $c.
The petition of the undersigned residents of Edmonton, N.W.T., humbly represents that
whereas under the terms of the Manitoba Act scrip was to be issued to the Half-Breed
heads of families and allotment of lands made to the children of the same, resident in
Manitoba on the 15th of July A.D. 1870; and whereas subsequently many of their families
removed to the interior and have not yet benefited by the terms of the said Manitoba Act;
and whereas it appears that the allotments of land made in Manitoba for the benefit of the
children of the said Half-Breed heads of families are likely to prove insufficient to cover
all the claimants under the said Act,
Now, therefore, your petitioners who are interested in these matters do most humbly pray
that you will cause such enquiries to be instituted as will place us on an equal footing
with our relatives and friends in Manitoba, and cause scrip to be issued to us at an early
date, in satisfaction of our just and lawful claims;
And whereas the Half-Breed heads of families and the children of the same, born or
resident in the Territories previously to 15th July, 1870, have not yet had their claims to
equal rights and privileges with their brethren in the Province of Manitoba investigated,
as is justly due to them, and is provided for by section e of clause 125, 42 Vic., chap. 31;
and whereas the continued delay in ascertaining and investigating said claims is creating
great and general dissatisfaction throughout the Territories;
We your petitioners, do humbly pray that you will cause a commission to be issued at an
early date to enquire into and confirm the said claims, not only with regard to scrip and
allotments of land as provided for in Manitoba, but moreover to confirm the titles to land
occupied by or purchased by parties from occupants of claims taken previously to the
transfer of the Territories to the Dominion of Canada;
And whereas by section 7 of the regulations issued by the Department of the Interior, on
14th October, 1879, respecting the disposal of certain public lands for the purpose of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, all payments for railway lands, and also pre-emption lands,
within the several belts shall be in cash, and not in scrip or military or police bounty
warrants; and whereas we humbly believe that this exclusion of our scrip, owing to the
immense reserves which have been created, practically amounts to its confiscation, and
involves a grave injustice to all who are interested in the same; and whereas we firmly
believe that no regulations should be retrospective as regards our property, and that the
solemn convention of 1870 should be fully and faithfully carried out; we do therefore
respectfully and humbly pray that the regulations of 14th October, 1879, may be so
modified as to admit our scrip at its face value in the purchase of lands within the railway
reserves.
Charles Majeau, Johnny Catara Sr.
2
Edmond Brouseau
Johnny Catara Jr.
J. Bte L’Hirondelle
Ferdinand Callarycord
Janvier L’Hirondelle
Jena Bellecourt
Norbert L’Hirondelle
Bte. Courtepatte
Marteau L’Hirondelle
Dieudonne Courtepatte
Laurent L’Hirondelle
Pascal Savard
Andre L’Hirondelle
Michel Plante
Cyprien L’Hirondelle
Victor Laurence
Samuel Cunningham
Louis Larocque
Jean Laderoute
Henry Leblanc
Olivier Laderoute
George Donald
Magloire Grey
Peter Pambrun
Cyprian Gray
Henri Dufresne
George Hodgson
John Sinclair
Charles Gladu
Alexander Rowland
Adolphe Perreault
Joe Norn
Joseph Chalifoux
Alfred Smith
Paul Chalifoux
Joseph Turner
Antoine Galarneau
Joseph Page
Anselme Malette
Elzear Page
J. Bte Roberson
Norbert Bellerose
J. Bte Galarneau
Joseph Chartier
Antoine Savard Sr.
Antoine Blandion
Antoine Savard Jr.
Emile Bellerose
Joseph Fagnant
Narcisse Bellerose
Charles Beuaregard
Alexander Savard Sr.
Octave Bellerose
Alexander Savard Jr.
Pierre Berard
Joseph Kallio
Roger Berard
Abraham Neault
Bpte Suprenant
Edouard Neault
Augustine Gladu
Edouard Durocher
Jeremy Gladu
Xavier Durocher
Alexis Gladu
Johny Roland
Thomas Boucher
Adolphe Roland
Cyprien Boucher
Louis Chastellain
Ambroise Boucher
Narcisse Beaudry
Jeremie Auger
Pierre Beauregard
Joseph L’Hirondelle
Joseph Beaudry
Leon Delorme
Noel Courtepatte
Pierre Delorme Sr.
Noel Delorme
Pierre Delorme Jr.
Francois Dufresne
Bte. Pepin
Peter C. Pambrun
Paul Lebrun
Isadore Pambrun
Gabriel Lafleur
Edouard McGillivray
Joseph Paquette
Philip Whitford
James Cunningham
Philip Tate
3
Albert Cunningham
Joseph Trover
Edouard Cunningham
Simon P. Whitford
Compiled by Lawrence Barkwell
Coordinator of Metis Heritage and History Research
Louis Riel Institute
Reference:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=YMNYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=pe
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