DCHP-3

scrip certificate

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

1908
It was indeed a gala time for the happy-go-lucky Lakers, and the effects of the issue and sale of scrip certificates were soon manifest in our neighbourhood.