DCHP-3

old settlers' 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.

See: land-scrip(def. 2)

Quotations

1963
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. . . .