Grants and Contributions

The training will cover preservation, arrangement, description, digitization, digital preservation, and outreach using records of healthcare institutions founded by the congregation. The extent of these records is 31 feet, including textual material, 1418 photographs, and one audiocassette. This project will enable the public to access these records. Throughout the internship, there will be time for reflection on what practices in archival administration could be modified when put into practice within a traditional cultural setting.

This project (1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024) will enable access to a part of Inuit and Canadian documentary heritage and increase ICC Canada’s capacity for collection management and information sharing. The key activities of ‘Describing and Discovery’ are: arrangement and description of all archival records, with multi-level, Rules for Archival Description (RAD)-compliant descriptions to the fonds/series/sub-series level (file- and item-level for some); and the installation and customization of software to manage and search archival descriptions and digital objects in English and Inuktitut (syllabics and Roman orthography).

With its project “Sharing 10,000 years of history, the Atanukana by Charles-Api Bellefleur,” the organization wishes to capture, disseminate and preserve a complete repertoire of traditional Innu tales (the Atanukana), as told by the traditional storyteller Charles-Api Bellefleur, but also by his father and grandfather before him. There is no denying that the Atanukana have a pivotal heritage value for the Innu and that they carry a thousand years of priceless knowledge.

The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Archives Phase 3 project relates to four fonds in the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation (WAF) collection. The main objectives of the project are to increase access, better preserve originals, and inform WAF’s research and public programmes. The fonds all contain materials that document Manitoba’s built heritage. The project closely aligns with the Foundation’s mandate to advance awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment.

The organization houses a collection of materials related to the Mohawk Institute, known as the “Mush Hole” to its students. This collection comprises approximately 31 boxes of records, ledger books, maps, and scrapbooks. The proposed project objective is to review all materials in the 31 boxes to evaluate them for inclusion in the newly created Mush Hole fonds, physically rearrange the records, and write RAD-compliant archival descriptions and finding aids in order to make the fonds accessible and easily usable by researchers.

This project will launch Cold Lake First Nations' (CLFN) Lue Chok Tue Archives Program ("the Program") which centralizes, preserves, and provides access to records and cultural properties, regardless of media or format, that are of enduring value to understanding the history, culture and community of the Denesuline people of Lue Chok Tue. As a result of 2022/23 work, CLFN centralized and inventoried 369 document boxes of records generated through governance and administration of CLFN Indian Band No. 464, developed an Acquisitions Policy, and prepared a Facilities Plan.

The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) Archives Access Project application for 2023-24 DHCP focuses on completion of finding aids for records created by departments of CYFN and its predecessor organizations (Yukon Native Brotherhood, Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians, Council for Yukon Indians) from circa 1970 to 2010 including: Finance (170 boxes), Communications (18 boxes), Housing (58 boxes), Self Government Secretariat (85 boxes),; and for CYFN-Yukon Native Language Centre: Linguistic Research records (14 boxes) and @500 maps.

The “Drummondville through the lens of photographer Henri Desaulniers” project has three main objectives, namely processing the archival fonds, digitizing its documents and disseminating part of its content through the development of a digital media library that is accessible on the Société d’histoire de Drummond website.

The project is a colaboration between three incorporated non-profit heritage organizations in Montreal that will increase access to and awareness of the documentary heritage of diverse local Afrodescendant communities to the wider public. The collaboration will also increase the capacity of each organization to keep and preserve their documentary heritage collections, via knowledge-sharing and updated practices developed during the project.

The Cultural Identity Preservation Project aims to compile, categorize, catalogue and display digital and physical artistic works by an artist from Metepenagiag First Nation. Nelson Cloud has been using videography and photography to collect historical and sacred moments for the past 20 years. The collection centers around gatherings, events, locations, and spontaneous moments captured through the lens of Nelson’s Creative eye. His work provides an immersive view of Metepenagiag and Natoaganeg communities, historical grounds, burial mounds, riverbanks and wildlife.