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Treaty Paylists<br />
in a <strong>Digital</strong> Age<br />
Pierrette Galley<br />
<strong>Joan</strong> <strong>Holmes</strong><br />
<strong>Joan</strong><br />
&<br />
<strong>Holmes</strong><br />
Associates Inc.<br />
www.joanholmes.ca
TREATY ANNUITY PAYLISTS<br />
LISTS CREATED BY INDIAN AFFAIRS TO RECORD<br />
TREATY ANNUITIES PAID TO FIRST NATIONS<br />
Useful for:<br />
1850 Robinson Treaties to Treaty 11<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Identifying treaty bands<br />
Following amalgamation and division of bands<br />
Establishing the number of people in a band<br />
Tracing treaty individuals and their families<br />
Identifying chiefs and councillors<br />
Identifying locations where people were paid<br />
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PRIVACY ACT<br />
Restricted Access<br />
• LAC (<strong>Library</strong> and Archives Canada) has made<br />
paylists to 1909 (inclusive) publicly available<br />
• Requires BCR and ATIP form, usually 8(2)(k)<br />
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WHERE ARE COPIES OF PAYLISTS AVAILABLE<br />
• LAC (Ottawa) on microfilm reels and microfiche<br />
• On microfiche at the Genealogical and Archival<br />
Research Unit, Indian Affairs (Gatineau)<br />
• On microfiche at some INAC regional offices (B.C.,<br />
Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario)<br />
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RELATED MATERIAL AT THE GENEALOGICAL<br />
AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH UNIT (DIAND)<br />
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Treaty paylists, 1850 to early 1980s<br />
Interest distribution paylists, 1860s to early 1980s<br />
Manual version of the Indian Register, from 1951<br />
to 1984 (two versions)<br />
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<br />
Various Indian Agent Censuses<br />
Finding aids for band name changes, divisions,<br />
amalgamations<br />
Role, regulations and contact information for<br />
Genealogical and Archival Research Unit in binder<br />
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DIGITIZED TREATY ANNUITY PAYLISTS<br />
Genealogical Unit had treaty annuity paylist<br />
collection scanned from LAC’s microfilm reels<br />
Uses GENEA database in Fortis software<br />
95,184 scanned images<br />
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PROJECT TO VERIFY SCANNED WORK<br />
Purpose to:<br />
1. Verify and complete the information<br />
2. Develop a method for linking images for<br />
each band<br />
3. Report to serve as finding aid<br />
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DIGITIZED FORMAT<br />
• Each page is a separate tiff image with<br />
index<br />
• Index contains basic information to<br />
identify the image<br />
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LINKING BANDS<br />
A method of grouping the images for<br />
contemporary and historic Indian Act bands was<br />
developed using administrative band codes and<br />
false codes in order to facilitate use of the<br />
paylists by researchers<br />
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TREATY CONFUSION<br />
Information in the treaty field is for the<br />
treaty to which the band adhered, although<br />
another treaty number may be written at the<br />
top of the paylist<br />
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SEARCHABLE WORD DOCUMENT<br />
• Describes project methodology<br />
• Finding aids to assist researchers in<br />
locating paylists associated with<br />
contemporary and historic bands<br />
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NOT COMPLETE<br />
• Some not scanned<br />
• Some complex relationships require further<br />
verification<br />
• Method of making available to researchers<br />
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20<br />
Treaty Paylists<br />
in a <strong>Digital</strong> Age<br />
Pierrette Galley<br />
<strong>Joan</strong> <strong>Holmes</strong><br />
<strong>Joan</strong><br />
&<br />
<strong>Holmes</strong><br />
Associates Inc.<br />
www.joanholmes.ca
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