Grants and Contributions

The goal is to continue the work started in phase 1 of this project, which was to digitize as many videocassettes as possible (in Beta and VHS formats, for which the copyright and the reproduction rights have been assigned to the SHSB), in order to preserve them for the future. The SHSB archivist identified approximately 567 videocassettes to be digitized, for a total of approximately 918 hours of recordings.

PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives aims to improve accessibility and storage conditions for an archival collection of approximately 300 framed works. This selection consists of small- to large-format photographs, documents, maps and paintings on canvas dating to the early mid-20th century, and chronicles important community events from Port Coquitlam’s past, including the history of one of British Columbia’s oldest May Day celebrations.
The project will include inventorying and digitizing all framed works, providing both staff and the general public with internal and online database access to the archival images and related information, and ensuring the collection’s long-term digital preservation.

The Zoryan Institute will transcribe and translate 43 audiovisual oral history interview recordings from its Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection into English. Conducted from 1983 to 1990, these interviews offer firsthand insights into the migration and resettlement experiences of Canada’s Armenian Genocide survivors. Their stories reflect diverse experiences of migration to, and resettlement in, Canada, and are influenced by when the survivors migrated, the factors that drove their migration, and the country from which they migrated. Included in these recordings are 4 testimonies from “Georgetown Boys,” who were part of a group of 100 Armenian orphans who settled in an orphanage–farming school in Georgetown, Ontario, in 1923-1924.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park (WHP), a non-profit organization and proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site, plans to catalogue, digitize and preserve the visual material collection that began with the first archeological digs, in the early 1980s, and spans to the present day. The collection comprises various media formats, including approximately 1,000 35mm slides, 1,000 photographs, 50 VHS tapes, and 30 posters. The funding will contribute in two main ways. First, it will serve to catalogue and digitize the visual material collection, along with the accompanying metadata, and add it to the WHP's established database. Second, it will make it possible to acquire the infrastructure, equipment, and tools needed to adequately care for the collection in order to ensure continued access, proper use, and preservation.

Processing—for the purposes of indexing, preserving and accessing—archives of significance for Îles-de-la-Madeleine related to the founding families of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The aim of the project is to preserve, categorize and describe several fonds in accordance with Rules for Archival Description (RAD) standards, digitize the said fonds, and incorporate them into the catalogue. The project will be instrumental in creating a primer on health in remote regions.

This project will implement Phase 2 of the Gananoque Archive Collections Project. Phase 1 was initiated in 2021 with the support of LAC. It focused on making a minimum of 50% of the Town of Gananoque’s archival collection accessible and improving the preservation standards for the collection. Following the successful implementation of Phase 1, Phase 2 will continue the process of opening up the community’s extensive documentary heritage for research, exhibitions, programming, and online opportunities. Phase 2 will concentrate on parts of the collection that are not digitized and require preventative conservation actions to meet professional archival standards. These parts of the collection are still largely inaccessible to the public as a result of outdated and incomplete documentation and lack of digitization. They are at risk of further degradation and potential loss. This project will digitize, preserve and document the remaining two-dimensional (2-D) items, multi-page documents, and the oversized record book collection.

The Accès aux archives de la Chambre de commerce de Drummondville project has three main objectives: processing the organization’s archival fonds; digitizing its content; and publishing the fonds via a consultation module accessible on the SHD website. The documentary collection under the care of the Chambre de commerce de Drummondville, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary in 2022, comprises 23.07 linear metres of textual documents (minutes, annual reports), 11,897 photographs (presidents, industries, businesses) and 76 moving images (business galas), produced from 1901 to 2015.

The CKUT Time Capsule will digitally preserve and make accessible the archival fonds generated by a decade of documenting unheard perspectives: a live broadcast by lesbian program Dykes on Mykes taking calls during the 1989 Polytechnique massacre; CKUT’s Community News Department reporting from behind the military lines at the Oka Crisis; detailed coverage of the AIDS crisis from Black, Indigenous, people of color, and queer perspectives.
The project will focus on digitizing hundreds of programming guides, photos, documents, and audio recordings from the years 1989 to 1999. The material will be digitized, restored, preserved, and catalogued. CKUT will develop an accessible finding aid for searching the collection, and key files will be published online.

The main two objectives of the Iwan Boberskyj Collection Digitization Project are to preserve the collection and make it publicly accessible. This collection includes more than 6,200 photographs, mainly of the Prairies and the Winnipeg area, taken during the period from 1920 to 1929 by Ukrainian diplomat Iwan Boberskyj. This collection provides a unique record of Ukrainian pioneer life across the Prairies.
The Boberskyj collection consists of raw historical evidence ready to be discovered, examined and analyzed by academics, researchers, authors, curators as well as the general public.

: Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice wants to digitize and publish 119 manuscripts written by the Sulpicians from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It intends to make public the entire contents of these manuscripts and support consultation of the documents by a broader public, mainly through its Web portal, for educational and knowledge purposes, particularly in regard to the reappropriation of Indigenous languages.