Grants and Contributions

This project will support the Okanagan Indian Band to research, design and produce virtual and physical displays on Syilx heritage. The exhibition will be displayed in indoor and outdoor spaces in the OKIB community, including the new Cultural Arbor and Cultural Immersion School at Komasket Park, as well as in two new Cultural Centres in the District of Lake Country and Silver Star Mountain Resort for the education and pleasure of local residents and tourists.

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 Honouring the Voices of Our Relatives project is focused on preserving a collection of oral and audiovisual recordings gathered over the past 35 years. This collection contains interviews, gatherings, land-based events and language camps—each a crucial piece of history for Indigenous people, our languages and cultures.

The VHEC proposes a multi-year project to migrate catalogue and accession records that describe materials donated by Vancouver-based Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees imprisoned in Canadian internment camps during WW2, currently described and accessible in a legacy Filemaker Pro database near the end of its lifespan. This project will increase public access to and awareness of catalogue records describing the VHEC’s documentary heritage.
As part of this project, the VHEC will enhance the accessibility of five oral histories by producing and uploading time-coded summaries to their testimony catalogue records.

The Archives of the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth has in it's collection two books which have been referred to, in the past, as "Indian Good books." These are books of New Testament Scriptures, and traditional Catholic prayers which were translated into Mi'kmawi'simk (alphabetically, not in pictographs) as a means to support those among the Indigenous community of Nova Scotia who had embraced the Catholic faith. These volumes are in need of repair in order to make them available for viewing and an internal digitization project in the future. It is hoped that making these volumes available will help bring about further reconciliation and healing between the Catholic Church in Nova Scotia, and the Indigenous Catholic population.

The Mouillepied Historical Society owns the archival fonds bequeathed by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 68 in St. Lambert since it closed in 2017. The Fonds includes administrative documents and information records on branch activities, photos, slides, VHS tapes, CDs and newspapers from 1940 to 2017.
The Mouillepied Historical Society wishes to make this fonds accessible to St. Lambert residents, communities where the Royal Canadian Legion is active and the community of researchers in this field. It also wishes to enhance the preservation of some unique pieces that have become fragile, such as films, publications and slides.

Further to research conducted in 2004 and 2005, Exporail wishes to complete a project on Sir W.C. Van Horne by producing a travelling exhibition that will be presented at Exporail before being proposed to other Canadian institutions. This research included many works of art, but very few archival records. Having acquired the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPRC) Fonds in 2013, the Canadian Railroad Historical Association (CRHA) wishes to further explore its content - particularly Series 1, which is entirely dedicated to Van Horne - in in order to enhance the project and allow for a more intimate look at Van Horne’s personal and professional lives.

CHPF houses an extensive archive of over 100,000 photographic images by Canadian photographers. It is the aim of the Foundation to digitize and preserve the negatives, slides and prints in the archive and freely disseminate these images to the public.

In 2001, George Hunter and his colleagues formed the CHPF with the intent to promote and preserve Canadian photography. In celebration of this twenty-year anniversary, some of the CHPF founding members have donated photographic negatives, prints or slides to the archive. As such, CHPF is proposing to digitize 4000 of these images to preserve them for future generations.

This project will preserve the significant documentary heritage of the Nova Scotia Avon River area. It will ensure that local memory is documented and accessible to current and future generations. The project will collect oral histories and convert and digitize archival records including oral histories, photographs, paintings and documents for increased and safe public access to the collection. It will migrate an archival collection to an online database to improve catalogue- and access-based management. The project will also conserve and preserve valuable and fragile documents to an archival standard.

The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Archives Phase 2 project relates to five fonds in the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation (WAF) collection. These fonds contain materials related to several of Winnipeg’s most significant buildings and their designers. The main objectives of the project are to increase access, better preserve originals, and inform WAF’s research and public programmes. The project closely aligns with the Foundation’s mandate to advance awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment.