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Indian and Inuit Affairs Program sous-fonds [multiple media] (R216-185-5-E)

Accession

1. TREATY PAYLISTS [textual records]
2. General Headquarters Administration Records: Interest/Treaty Distribution lists and BC Census Records [textual record] (119-000124-1)
3. General Administration Records - Indian Membership Registers' Lists, Treaty Annuity Paylists, Census Returns [textual record (microform)] (120-000060-9)
4. General Administration Records - Indian Registers and lists, Treaty Annuity Paylists and B.C. Census records [textual record (microform)] (120-000079-X)
5. Treaty annuity paylists [textual record (some microform)] (2003-01048-3)
6. General Administration Records - Indian Registers, Treaty Annuity Paylists and Interest Distribution Lists [textual records (microform)] (2010-00810-3)

Bilingual equivalent

Feuilles de paye des annuités de traités de l'administration centrale [document textuel]

Date(s)

1850-1982

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

41.18 m of textual records

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Series consists, primarily, of headquarters copies of treaty annuity paylists. Paylists were generated in at least three copies, the agent maintaining one and forwarding the others to Headquarters for verification and retention. As the Headquarters copies, the records in this series represent the main core of the Department of Indian Affairs holdings in this area. While, in theory, the information contained in field office copies of paylists should mirror that found in the Headquarters copy, researchers have found discrepancies. As a result, users may find it useful to compare the copy of the paylists found in this series with any extant field office copies. While treaty annuity paylists have importance in their own right as proof of fulfilment of treaty obligations of the government, they are also used by many researchers as a genealogical tool, especially for the period prior to the establishment of the Indian Register in 1951. The value of paylists for genealogical research has some qualifications, however. Often, especially in the period prior to c.1940, paylists normally record by name the head of household only, with other family members recorded only as a number (e.g., 1 woman, 2 boys, 3 girls). This makes the tracing of women and girls particularly difficult as the head of household was commonly male. On the other hand, paylists often also contain very valuable comments about family relationships and about childrens' absences from the family home by virtue of their attendance at residential schools. Often they also indicate file numbers for correspondence about particular transactions that affect an individual's inclusion or not on a paylist (e.g., band transfers, commutations, loss of status by marriage, admissions of new adherents to treaty, etc.).,

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Terms of use

Copyright belongs to the Crown. In order to protect the fragile originals, the microfilm copies of these records must be consulted rather than the originals.

Finding aid

Textual records Finding aid 10-91 is a computer generated boxlist relating to volumes 9245-9562, 10003, 12355-12361. The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the Mikan record. A paper copy is available in the Reference room. 10-91 90 (Electronic)

Textual records Finding aid 10-109 is a computer generated boxlist relating to volumes 12405-12607. The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the Mikan record. A paper copy is available in the Reference room. 10-109 90 (Electronic)

Textual records Finding aid 10-116 is a typed index relating to volumes 9412-9417. Those volumes contain the paylists for Treaties 4, 6, and 7 First Nations for the years 1874-1880. The finding aid provides page references within each volume for the lists pertaining to individual bands. 10-116 90 (Paper)

Additional information

Source

Government

Related control no.

1. 96/006
2. 1974-75/034 GAD
3. 1991-92/125 GAD
4. 1992-93/060 GAD
5. 1992-93/079 GAD
6. 119-000124-1
7. 120-000060-9
8. 120-000079-X
9. 2003-01048-3
10. 2010-00810-3
11. RG10-B-8
12. RG10-B-8-d

MIKAN no.

133552