Grants and Contributions

The Illaiqpik Project will be directed by the Inuvialuit Game Council (IGC) and administered by the Inuvialuit Traditional and Local Knowledge Coordinator at the Joint Secretariat. IGC uses Inuvialuit traditional knowledge (in the form of oral histories, audio interviews, transcriptions, maps, and reports) for much of their decision making and currently there is little capacity to store and organize the existing information. The project’s aim is to collect and organize Inuvialuit owned traditional knowledge interviews and oral histories and build an in-house repository to provide access to the various Inuvialuit groups/co-management boards to use in decision making and to protect Inuvialuit cultural heritage while also providing opportunities for Inuvialuit-governed future research.

The collection of the Société historique du Saguenay includes the first documents collected by the organization, which date back to 1934. The series were processed differently in different periods, and they were inventoried in multiple formats (manuscripts, Kardex, etc.). Some documents are virtually inaccessible given their complicated retrieval process. The project involves facilitating access to the collection by standardizing its finding aids and making them more comprehensive and freely available through a single portal. The project will also increase the organization's capacity to sustainably conserve the collection’s archives and digital data.

The organization will digitize, preserve and provide access to Western Front’s collection of 1,353 Betamax, 3/4-inch U-matic, 1/2-inch open reel, VHS and Mini DV videotapes that document unique performance art and new music concerts presented at Western Front from 1973 to the 2000s.
The project commemorates Western Front’s 50th year and will increase awareness of its contribution to Canadian art history and the artist-run centre movement. Currently, the archive is largely inaccessible due to storage concerns and at-risk media formats. Western Front will make the digitized material accessible on its website, enabling increased discoverability of the collection by scholars, curators, artists, writers and the public.

This project highlights the contributions and cultural resilience of Inuit artists, and it will enhance public appreciation for their art. Inuit artists face unique and systemic barriers to visibility by the Canadian public. Their art form is poorly understood despite being a key piece of Canada’s national artistic identity.
The Inuit Art Foundation (IAF) archive spans the development of modern Inuit art and represents artists from all media. The archive includes every community within Inuit Nunangat (Inuit regions) and reflects the incredible range of cultural and artistic practices among Inuit artists. This project will increase awareness of and access to a greater proportion of the IAF archive.

Following the opening of the new Centre des archives fransaskoises, the organization plans to deliver a meaningful project for the Fransaskois community, with support from several partners and mentors (Library and Archives Canada, Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, etc.). The project aims to digitize, index and provide access to L’Eau vive, Saskatchewan’s Francophone community newspaper; compile and showcase preserved documentary heritage; rally the community around the new Centre des archives fransaskoises and meet the urgent needs of researchers.

Our project's main and immediate goal marks the first phase of our preservation efforts, focusing on the critical steps needed to ensure the sustainability of Cheslattat’en oral and written history, and our documented relationship with the land. To preserve our unique and irreplaceable collection, we will inventory, organize, digitize, and store the materials according to archival standards, and eventually catalogue all of our current one-of-a-kind items.

This project will focus on digitizing oral histories by recording interviews. This activity is urgent, given that the knowledge pool continues to shrink as Elders pass away. The Nation has been cataloguing and digitizing the Nation’s oral histories for decades. Archives support the survival of oral history, language revitalization, assertions of land rights, reclamation of identity, and recovery from genocide. This project will refine the capacities built during the previous Alexis History Project, made possible by the DHCP. Three researchers will be hired. They will be assisted by fluent Stoney speakers to conduct interviews with Elders.

This project aims to facilitate improved access to a significant collection in the Colchester Historeum’s archival holdings. It includes the arrangement, description, and rehousing of approximately 44 meters of school records. Finding aids will subsequently be created. The school records span from 1881 to 1981 and represent nearly 160 schools in Colchester County. They contain vital information about individuals from Colchester, including date of birth and parent / guardian details, which are not always available through other resources. Currently, the records are difficult to access as they lack arrangement and description and are in poor physical condition. These initiatives will not only improve public and internal access but also contribute to preventative conservation of the school records. As part of the process of rehousing the school records, they will be digitized with the use of an A3+ overhead scanner. An estimated 10,000 scans will be produced.

This project will focus on digitizing oral histories by recording interviews. This activity is urgent, given that the knowledge pool continues to shrink as Elders pass away. The Nation has been cataloguing and digitizing the Nation’s oral histories for decades. Archives support the survival of oral history, language revitalization, assertions of land rights, reclamation of identity, and recovery from genocide. This project will refine the capacities built during the previous Alexis History Project, made possible by the DHCP. Three researchers will be hired. They will be assisted by fluent Stoney speakers to conduct interviews with Elders.

The Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean is seeking to digitize and publish approximately 22,000 photos from the Jean le Photographe fonds, in order to preserve these visual archives, which bear witness to sixty years of regional history, and make them accessible to the public.
The images will be filed in the photo module of the Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean’s database, on the organization’s website. This will give researchers access to the photo bank online.