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RG15-D-II-1, RG15M 77803/13, RG15M 78903/17, RG15M 84503/35, RG15M 934003, RG15M 890412, RG15M 890655, R190-36-2-E.
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Item ID number:
156349
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Department of the Interior fonds

Dominion Lands Branch

Branch registry
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Series includes:
23435 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):
1871-1946
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Place of creation:
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent:
213.6 m of textual records
53 maps chiefly blueprints
Language of material:
English
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Sub-series consists of central registry subject files created by the Dominion Lands Branch. These numerically arranged subject files contain letters addressed to various officials of the department. They bear on every aspect of resource management, and land administration, sales and settlement. They include departmental memoranda and other relevant documents, as well as general ruling and policy files dealing with the Métis scrip commissions, Military Bounty, and North-West Mounted Police land warrants. The files are arranged numerically from 1 to 5644152. The sub-series contains useful material on western settlement in general and on the settlements established by religious groups and colonization companies. After 1890, copies of replies to correspondence are frequently attached to the files. Volume 227 contains memoranda by N.O. Côté on the following subjects: Administration and Sales of Dominion Lands; Claims under the Manitoba Act; Métis Claims and Letters Patent for Dominion Lands.

The general terminal date of the sub-series is the mid 1930's, but in a few instances files contain correspondence dated as late as 1946. Included at the beginning of this sub-series are the following sets of files: Department of State, files 8 to 1642 in 1871, 313 to 1824 in 1872, 386 to 2735 in 1873; Office to the Secretary of State, file 1087 in 1871; Office of the Secretary of State for the Provinces, files 1362 and 1376 in 1872, 1125 in 1873; Department of the Interior, files 1 to 265 in 1871, 590 to 1632 in 1872, 55 to 2624 in 1873, then from 55 to 5,693,470. After file 999634 which started in March 1905, the Department started a new series for a year called "A" series. The records in our holdings are from file 19A which started in March 1905 to 149563A which started in February 1906, volumes 964 to 984. The next file in our custody is 1,153,348 started in March 1906. It seems that the Department inserted the "A" series between 1,000,000 and 1,000,001.

Note: the original oversized items in the following volumes or files have been moved to horizontal drawers: Vol. 227 (Poster - "Avis - Réclamations des Métis et des colons primitifs" - Province du Manitoba - 22 mai 1885) is now located in Vol. 3176. Vol. 228, File 940 (Poster - "Homestead Rights" - "Homestead Rights or Free Grant Lands" - clause from "Act respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion" - n.d.) is now located in Vol. 3177. Vol. 232, File 2429 (Poster - Public Notice - Railway Lands, Province of Manitoba thrown open to actual settlement - Department of Interior - 13 November 1877) is now located in Vol. 3178. Vol. 235, File 5215 (Poster - Public Notice - Department of the Interior - Re: setting aside lands in Northwest Territories for construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway - 1 March 1876) is now located in Vol. 3179. Vol. 236, File 6300 (Poster - "The Great North West Colony ... 160 Acre Farms Free ..." - Bristol, England - n.d.) is now located in Vol. 3180. Vol. 242, File 18909 (Legal Contract - Agreement - Land Department of The Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company - n.d.) is now located in Vol. 3181. Vol. 245, File 23563, Pt. 1 (Printed Poster - "Notice to Settlers for Manitoba and the North-West Territory" - Winnipeg, 10 May 1880) is now located in Vol. 3182. Vol. 245, File 23563, Pt. 1 (Printed Poster - "Notice to Settlers for Manitoba and the North-West Territory" - Winnipeg, 10 May 1880 [handwritten notations]) is now located in Vol. 3182. Vol. 247, File 25092 (Printed Poster - Department of the Interior - 25 June 1880 - Public Notice re: acceptance of scrip to purchase Railway and Pre-emption Lands) is now located in Vol. 3183. Vol. 250, File 27630, Pt. 2 (Poster [two copies] - Department of Interior - "Bekanntmachung - Mennoniten [sic] Reserve in Manitoba" - [German text] - 22 May 1885) is now located in Vol. 3184. Vol. 250, File 28218 (Poster - 13 November 1880 - Proclamation by John O'Connor, Secretary of State, re: claims to lands in Manitoba by those resident there since July 15, 1870) is now located in Vol. 3185. Vol. 271, File 41345-1 (Poster - "Rapid Development - The York Farmers Colonization Company ... First Fall Exhibition" - September 1884) is now located in Vol. 3186. Vol. 280, File 48487, Pt. 1 (Schedule - Ledger-size - Schedule of Squatters' Claims in Township 17, Range 20, W 2nd Meridian - 16 August 1882) is now located in Vol. 3187. Vol. 285, File 52778 (Plan of Township 18, Range 14, W 2nd Meridian, 27 June 1883) is now located in Vol. 3188. Vol. 286, File 52815-2 (Indenture - Deed of Land - Thomas Steers the Younger to Edward Kelly - 6 February 1883) is now located in Vol. 3189. Vol. 288, File 54374 (Newsprint Poster - "100,000 Distributed Gratis - The Hudson's Bay Company and the Great North-West" - c. 2 February 1883) is now located in Vol. 3190. Vol. 288, File 54374 (Newsprint Poster - "To the Farmers and Land Buyers of Great Britain - `Allan' Line of Royal Mail Steamers from Liverpool to Canada" - c. 27 December 1884) is now located in Vol. 3191. Vol. 290, File 56761, Pt. 3 ("Duplicate Certificate of Title" - Town of Macleod, [Alberta] - 21 March 1906 - Ownership of land in fee simple by King Edward VII) is now located in Vol. 3192. Vol. 301, File 65383-1 (Legal-size Agreement - Qu'Appelle Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company with The Land Corporation of Canada Limited - 11 September 1884) is now located in Vol. 3193. Vol. 301, File 65383-1 (Legal-size Supplemental Agreement - Qu'Appelle Long Lake Railroad and Steamboat Company with The Land Corporation of Canada Limited - 11 February 1885) is now located in Vol. 3193. Vol. 575, File 176811, Pt. 2 (Dominion Lands Grant, The Canada North West Land Company Limited - 30 April 1897) is now located in Vol. 3194. Vol. 673, File 305076 (Poster - Allan Royal Mail Line - "Assisted Passages are Granted by the Government of Canada..." - England - n.d. [c. 1892]) is now located in Vol. 3195. Vol. 683, File 321252 (Poster - "Free Farms for the Million" - Canadian Pacific Railway - n.d.) is now located in Vol. 3196. Vol. 756, File 494483, Pt. 7 (Poster - Department of Interior - 13 May 1907 - Notice of former Doukhobor Reserve Lands open for Homestead Entry as of 1 June 1907) is now located in Vol. 3197.

Cartographic material is comprised of the following:

RG15M 934003 consists of plans of Qu'Appelle subdivision of sections 21 & 28, tp. 18, rge. 14, w2. The first plan has Registration Br. #715191 and the second has #744671. The second is also date stamped 20 Dec. 1902.

RG15M 77803/13 consists of a collection of maps related to railways and land disposition in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Midwestern United States, dated 1879-1920. A few of the maps show squatters' or homesteaders' names.

RG15M 78903/17 consists of township plans and surveys for Canada's western provinces (primarily Manitoba and Saskatchewan), dated 1888-1905. Such surveys include road and construction surveys, bypasses, and land surveys for lands owned by railway companies.

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Hamilton, Lauchlan Alexander, ,
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(Paper) A list of correspondence files transferred by the federal government to the western provinces between 1948 and 1972 is found in finding aid 15-15 (parts 1 to 10 list files transferred to Alberta; parts 11 to 15 to British Columbia; parts 16 to 31 to Manitoba; and parts 32 to 40 to Saskatchewan). 15-15

(Paper) Finding aids 15-5 and 15-5 part 1 are computer-generated file lists. In finding aid 15-5 the files are arranged numerically from 1 to 5644152. Under each file number, the listing gives the volume number, file title, file dates, and subject headings. Finding aid 15-5, part 1, is a listing of files by subject. Under each subject heading, the listing gives the file number, volume number, file title, and file dates. Finding aids 15-5 and 15-5, part 1, were created by the Government Archives Division. They replace the earlier file lists that were previously used for this series. Although the original lists have been withdrawn from circulation, they are still retained by the Government Archives Division. They can be found in the government processing vault 7-13. 15-5, 15-5 part 1 (90 Open)

(Electronic) Finding aids 15-5, and 15-5, part 1, are also available on MINISIS, the National Archives' computer database. 15-5, 15-5 part 1

Cartographic material (Paper) Finding aids consist of item listings. RG15M 77803/13; RG15M 934003; RG15M 78903/17. Finding aids available in main reference room. (90 Open)

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90 Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_156349?usrlang=en

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Source of title:
Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.
Physical description note:
RG15M 934003: Base map signed by L.A. Hamilton, Dominion Land Surveyor on 6 Feb. 1883 and by an official of the CPR Lands Dept. The same base map was used for both maps in this accession. Both are stamped by the Registration Branch of the Dept. of the Interior and each have different ms. annotations for land transactions.
Custodial history:
The original registers for the Dominion Lands Branch central registry were destroyed by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

With regards to the cartographic material: Provenance of RG15M 934003 is not known.

RG15M 77803/13 transferred to the Public Archives of Canada by the Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development which assumed control over these records when the Dept. of the Interior was dissolved in 1936; then transferred from the Public Records Division in 1977, vols 250 to 290.

RG15M 78903/17 transferred to the Public Archives of Canada by the Dept. of the Interior; transferred from Public Archives Division, vols. 299-301, 312, and 343-348.
Cartographic math data:
Cartographic material: RG15M 934003: Scale [1:2 400]; RG15M 77803/13 and RG15M 78903/17: Scales differ.
Availability of other formats note:
See reels T-12176 to T-12183, T-12317 to T-12326, T-12363 to T-12390, T-12431 to T-12462, T-12486 to T-12561, T-12607 to T-12640, T-13025 to T-13073, T-13075 to T-13195, T-13781 to T-13899, T-14401 to T-14445, T-14619 to T-14699, and T-15508 to T-15543 for microfilmed copies of these records.
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Related material:
Receipts for files transferred to the four western provinces from 1931 to 1941 are on files 5616982, 5616984 and 5616986, volumes 1172 to 1174. Similarly, lists of township plans transferred from the Dominion Lands Administration to the western provinces in the early 1930s, including parish plans and settlement plans, are documented in three un-numbered files found in RG 15, volume 3172. Volume 2065 serves as finding aid to railway company files relating to Rights of Way.
Source:
Government
Former archival reference no.:
RG15-D-II-1
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