Grants and Contributions

This retrofit project will produce extremely high energy savings and GHG reductions for a community centre. The centre will serve as an accessible location for new immigrants, seniors, and youth in a rapidly growing district.

The new Nature Centre will re-envision and replace an end-of-lifecycle building that has been the anchor of outdoor and environmental education programming at Scanlon Creek Conservation Area for decades. Based on universal design and net-zero carbon principles, construction of this new building will create a community hub where people of all ages and abilities who live, work and play in the Lake Simcoe region can access award-winning, innovative programming that connects them to nature while building environmental knowledge and awareness. The 750 square meter, multi-purpose building will enable us to respond and adapt to our growing communities and their changing demographics.

New community centre in Mistawasis Nehiyawak First Nation, SK to provide a modern, safe, and secure meeting place on reserve, primarily for important events including funerals and wakes, governance, debates, non-school education programs, seniors’ activities, and public meetings.

Retrofit of an unused Elementary School in Bradford West Gwillimbury, ON to be repurposed as a Community Centre for underserved populations, providing a centralized, easily accessible location for a variety of social service agencies. The project includes replacing all existing equipment with high energy efficiency alternatives, redoing the building envelope, increasing wall insulation, a new roof with new insulation, and replacing the windows with low-e, argon filled alternatives.

The proposed building improvements will address structural deficiencies, increase accessibility, and drastically reduce the building's climate footprint by a 69.6% reduction in GHG emissions and 70.8% in energy savings.

Purchase 2 hybrid mini vans to add to the existing fleet of 4 vehicles to provide door-to-door pre-booked public transportation in Cumberland County, as well as communities located near the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick border in southern New Brunswick. The Cumberland County Transportation Service is a member of Rural Rides Transportation Association.

Purchase 2 new vehicles to expand Trans County Transportation Society's fleet of accessible vehicles to provide day-to-day transportation services (door-to-door, wheelchair accessible and pre-booking transit services) and medical shuttle services in Annapolis County and western Kings County of Nova Scotia.

OCFN is eager to retrofit their Community Services Building to improve the building's energy efficiency and significantly improve the building function and overall longevity. The Community Services Building is the main hub of community-focused programming at OCFN. The Community Services Building houses a variety of community-focused programs and services. The building was originally built as a school at OCFN but has since been repurposed as the Community Services Building. The building houses the following programs and departments: gym, daycare, social development offices, housing department offices, and training programs for post-secondary health care assistant programs.

Purchase of 3 Zero Emission vehicles for 6-8 passengers and 3 charging stations for a ride share and on-demand transit service between four municipalities: Métis-sur-Mer, Grand-Métis, Baie-des-Sables, Saint-Octave de Métis. The service would target the local population to help with day-to-day mobility requirements, such as going to work and accessing health care and other transit systems.

Supporting the master transportation planning work underway, an active transportation plan (ATP) would identify the long-term needs of moving people within South Huron and the opportunities to meet those needs. Key considerations in a South Huron plan will include items like identifying a long-term vision for recreation trail corridors and designing a policy for sidewalk installation when planning new subdivisions or street reconstruction projects. With the level of growth and development our municipality is experiencing we need to develop an ATP now before we lose opportunities to maintain connectivity of trails and other potential active transportation corridors.