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单词 metis scrip
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Metis scrip
b. Canadian. Documentation issued by the government to the Metis people, entitling the bearer to an amount of land or money (the latter either in cash or as an allowance against the purchase of government lands) and serving as compensation for lost lands. Also more fully Metis scrip. Now historical.Also called land scrip when referring to land entitlement (see land-scrip n. at land n.1 Compounds 3) and money scrip when referring to monetary entitlement.
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1874 Jrnls. House of Commons Canada 8 112 To grant to each Half-breed head of a family resident in Manitoba on the 15th July, 1870, 160 acres of land, or scrip for $160, receivable on payment for Dominion lands.
1905 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 25 May 6490 This whole question of giving money-scrip and land-scrip to the half-breeds..was debated.
1985 Labour/Le Travail 16 283/2 The coalfields around Lethbridge, Alberta were fraudulently acquired by the Galt family through Métis scrip.
2015 M. Hogue Metis & Med. Line v. 188 In the 1870s, scrip became the Canadian government's chief mechanism to satisfy Metis land claims.
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