Grants and Contributions

Through this project, Grand Council Treaty #3 aims to document the history and stories of Manito Aki Inakonigaawin (MAI), the Great Earth Law of the Anishinaabe, in Treaty #3. The project will involve interviewing Elders and knowledge keepers on this sacred law and translating the recordings from Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) into English. This project is being developed in partnership with the Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership.

The objective of the project is to preserve the major collections of photo images held by the Annapolis Heritage Society (AHS) and render them accessible to the public. Deliverables of the project are the development of a group of skilled volunteers, the digitization of the major photo collections, and wide public access to the images. Key activities include training volunteers; digitizing the images; labelling, describing and rehousing images in need; and uploading the images to a provincial database along with related textual information.

The purpose of the project is to make crowdsourcing—that is, seeking the public’s assistance to increase awareness of the archives—available to the community of Francophone archivists, both inside and outside Quebec. The project consists in developing online training (short videos, theoretical content, educational activities, collaboration spaces) for a wide variety of archive services, particularly services for the French-speaking and Indigenous minority populations, and making this training available at no charge. The goal of this online training, which is intended to be self-supporting, is to build knowledge through sharing experiences and holding activities within a community.

The Canadian National Exhibition Foundation (CNEF), in partnership with the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation (CHPF), aims to digitize 8,000 at-risk photographic negatives from the CNE archival collection.
The negatives will be rehoused by CNE archival staff in preparation for digitization. Once these images have been delivered to the archiving team at CHPF, they will be digitized. CHPF has successfully digitized more than 12,000 images through three consecutive projects funded by the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP). Once the images have been digitized and the accompanying metadata has been added, they will be uploaded to both the CHPF Digital Collections website and the CNE front-facing website and searchable database.

The Archives of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto will work with a conservator specializing in paper conservation to improve the condition of twenty-five parish registers, which currently cannot be safely consulted, and ensure their long-term preservation, with the aim of continued access and future digitization.

The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) Archives Access Project application for the 2022-23 DHCP focuses on the completion of finding aids for records created by the CYFN predecessor organizations that founded and led the Yukon First Nations land claims movement from circa 1968 to circa 1983: YNB – Yukon Native Brotherhood (184+ boxes) and YANSI – Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians (61+ boxes). The 2022-23 project will also include records from the predecessor land claims negotiation organization CYI – Council for Yukon Indians (65+ boxes related to the Leadership and Implementation Planning series), and the CYFN – Yukon Native Language Centre Indigenous Language Preservation series (50+ boxes).

Historically, the Society of Friends (Quakers) has been instrumental in advancing business and industry in Coldstream, Ontario. The scope of this project is the digitization of early records and photographs from businesses and industries, personal records, and publications from the area Quakers.
The key activities for the project are the digitization of approximately 3 metres of records, which include 250 photographs. Two metres of these records consist of ledger books. The rest of the material is included in the list below and related to the Quakers' importance in rural Ontario. The project will begin June 1, 2022, and will be completed by March 31, 2023.

Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) has approximately 200 metres of archival materials that require management. The materials include textual and audiovisual records from the CLFN Band Administration. The information in those records pertains to land claims and environmental monitoring, and includes interviews with community members and CLFN elders and a wide variety of content that a First Nations government produces. The archives has not had an archivist to manage this information.

The mandate of the Department of Culture and Heritage is “to document, preserve and promote Gwich’in culture, language, traditional knowledge and values.” The Department conducts research in the areas of culture, language and traditional knowledge so that this body of knowledge will be recorded and available for future generations, and to assist in the development of programs appropriate for Gwich'in needs.

As Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) (formerly Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) celebrates its 50th year, this project aims to digitize and make accessible vital records and publications from its founding decade. This work will support ongoing efforts to improve the availability of ITK’s documentary heritage and increase the organization’s capacity for collection stewardship and sharing its digital records. Key activities will include installing and setting up a digital repository system; and digitizing records from two selected collections and making them accessible through the newly implemented repository.