| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Series consists of records of the Half-breed Commission, which was formerly appointed on December 12, 1935 by the Government of Alberta to examine and report on Métis health, education, homelessness, and land issues. The Commission was made up of Justice Albert Ewing, Dr. Edward Braithwaite, Mr. James Douglas, and Mr. T.C. Rankine. Also known as the Ewing Commission, so named after the chairman Justice Ewing, the Commission opened its proceedings in Edmonton, Alberta on February 25, 1935. The Commission's report led to the creation of An Act Respecting the Métis Population of Alberta, which received royal assent on November 22, 1938. The series consists of the reports, correspondence, background information, proceedings and evidence of the Commission. The records were transferred by predecessors of the Department of Social Services and Community Health to the Provincial Archives in three separate accessions. The Archives amalgamated all of these accessions into one in 1975. |