Collection search - MacDonald, Ewen; claim scrip for his children who are not of age; address: Lesser Slave Lake; born: 14 August, 1839 at Wernesshire, Scotland; father: Archibald MacDonald (Whiteman); mother: Mary Grieve (Whitewoman); married: 19 October, 1865 at Lower Fort Garry to Eliza Murray (Métis); children living: Alexander Archibald, Samuel Lawrence Benson; Mary Helen, Elizabeth Gertrude; Robert Campbell, Colin Hunter; Annie Catherine and Kenneth Norman; children deceased: Walter Ewen and William Clark; claim no. 558

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).