Grants and Contributions

This project seeks to procure two-year funding to continue offering the AABC workshop “Archives 101: Archival Practice for Indigenous Organizations” through three online and one in-person event. Funding will allow the workshop to be offered at a minimal registration fee. This expanded workshop will be delivered by the Education and Advisory Services Coordinator and an Indigenous Co-trainer, along with Indigenous guest speakers currently working in an archive who will share their knowledge.

The project sees two Montreal community archive centres, ARCMTL and the CIDIHICA, collaborate on the implementation and launch of new bilingual catalogue management systems (CMS) and digital asset management systems (DAM). Using current best practices for DAM and a state-of-the-art web design of the public user interface, the project will provide each organization with a portal that dramatically improves public access to and discoverability of their collections.

Main activities of the project would include 1. establishment of a public facing platform housing finding aids and selected archival materials, 2. preservation of a collection of Haida language recordings, and 3. transcription and translation of collections of digital oral history and textual document files.

i. The Grenville County Historical Society is digitizing newspapers from Grenville County (St. Lawrence River to Rideau Canal from Maitland to Cardinal and Merrickville to Kemptville) in order to document its history in a sustainable way. The newspapers date from 1901. Our goal is to make that history accessible to current and future generations.

The objective of the 2025/26 CYFN DHCP Project is to continue processing the massive CYFN archival collections to complete finding aids and permit access to this foundational archival heritage for Yukon First Nations.

The objective of the project is to digitize records of the Vancouver, Chinatown based Wongs Benevolent Association for preservation and access. Project scope includes creation of item-level metadata and a thesaurus able to be shared with researchers and community members.

The project involves conducting 40 filmed oral history interviews with key figures from the Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese communities in Quebec, as well as with those responsible for the selection, reception, and settlement of refugees from these communities between 1975 and 1990. This project, which is part of the 50th anniversary of their arrival in Quebec, is urgent, considering the advanced age of the participants. Its purpose is to make their experiences visible and to commemorate them.

This project involves the modernization and enhancement of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives' collection descriptions and collections management capacities through migration to an instance of AToM (Access to Memory), which will be hosted with the company that maintains the Archives' current online presence.

The goal of the project is to preserve and protect the historical archives stored at the Prud’homme museum.

The activities: the development of an acquisition policy and procedures/standards for archiving; the assessment of relevance, classification, and description of archives; the digitization of essential archives; and the proper packaging and preservation of archives.

The Chinese Canadian Historical Society (CCHSBC) will document oral histories of Chinese Canadian and other visible minority groups in the Okanagan through a four-day accessible workshop series developed in collaboration with the OCCA Communities Association (OCCA), a registered charity and non-profit supporting multicultural communities in the region through cultural, educational and social services.