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half-breed scrip
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a certificate issued following the Northwest Rebellions to Metis as compensation for lost lands and entitling the bearer to 240 acres.
Quotations
1878
Your petitioners would humbly represent that their rights to a participation in the issue of the half-breed or old settlers' scrip are as valid and binding as those of the half-breed and old settlers of Manitoba. . . .
1945
. . . up from the Bank came much business, especially land business, especially that concerning the settlement of deeds for half-breed script [sic], sold by their owners during the boom of the previous years.