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.

The IGC uses Inuvialuit traditional knowledge (in the form of oral histories, audio interviews, transcriptions, maps and reports) for much of its decision making, and currently there is little capacity to store and organize the existing information.

The purpose of this project is to collect and organize Inuvialuit-owned traditional knowledge interviews and oral histories, and build an in-house repository for the various Inuvialuit groups/co-management boards to access for decision making, and to protect Inuvialuit cultural heritage.

This project will examine specific records within the collection of the South Peace Regional Archives (SPRA) that the Indigenous History Committee has identified as having Indigenous content. The SPRA will add culturally appropriate descriptions and contextual information to these records. This project will increase access to approximately 300 Indigenous-related archival photographs and paper artifacts, through digitization and promotion on social media.

Through consultation with the Committee, the project will enable Indigenous peoples to engage in the identification of photographs and paper artifacts from the SPRA. The project will enrich SPRA records and help members of Indigenous communities to connect with their past.

The Education and Advisory Service Coordinator of the Archives Association of British Columbia will plan and deliver two customized workshops, one to take place in Haida Gwaii and the other in Fort St. John, to support Treaty 8 Tribal Association communities. They will build on a past DHCP project called Indigenous and Community Capacity Building: Archives Regional Training and Development Clinics, and respond to feedback that travel prevents many interested parties from participating.

The clinics will offer training and in-person archival expertise to Indigenous knowledge keepers and First Nations community members, and archival staff of community memory institutions. The scope, topics and focus will be determined in consultation with each community and will incorporate lessons learned from past workshops.

The Canadian Council of Archives will organize and host a Monetary Appraisal Forum, offering the Canadian archival community and broader heritage sector an opportunity to explore current issues related to archival monetary appraisal practices and knowledge, with a focus on the appraisal of electronic records.

Not all appraisers are equipped to appraise all types of fonds or collections, and more specifically, those including electronic records. The Forum will provide a platform to share knowledge, present the findings of the Electronic Records Committee, and discuss strategies proposed for the future of monetary appraisal in Canada, especially for digital materials.

Part of Calgary since 1913, Christ Church houses important social history. One parish member helped secure the vote for Canada's Indigenous peoples, and another helped make strides in solving homelessness.

With a large, unorganized document collection, the parish appointed a committee to develop a records management, archives and history program. Since then, Christ Church has accessioned seven metres of records, started oral histories and shared monthly articles with the parish.

In this project, the organization will digitize and make accessible 55 years of church records and connect with wider Calgary. Activities include an oral history workshop and interviews with Indigenous peoples related to voting.

This project will help Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society to make its materials more accessible and raise awareness about the wealth of historical photographs in its collection. Archivists will digitize approximately 3,800 photographs from the late 1800s to 2016, to permit more efficient use of the photographs, while reducing handling of originals. The organization will acquire a Discovery Interface to provide online access to its descriptive database and digitized records, and enable the public to search collections, view photographs and documents, stream audio recordings, send feedback, and make requests or share records from their computers and smartphones.

This project focuses on the appraisal, arrangement and creation of descriptions, based on Rules for Archival Description, for 276 boxes of unorganized records related to executive, environmental and governance matters of Yukon First Nations (YFNs). The project will enable YFNs, researchers and the public to access the documents.

This frequently requested material includes information on land claims, treaty implementation, urgent northern climate change issues, and community resources. It is the most comprehensive collection available for YFN communities, with documents from the 1970s to 2010.

Access is not currently possible because the series is unorganized and requires Access to Information and Protection of Privacy assessment, since personal, corporate and confidential treaty records are stored with other general information.

The project aims to better preserve photo albums from the Canadian Pacific Railway fonds. These albums will be described and digitized in accordance with strict archival standards using the appropriate equipment—a plane scanner—to prevent their condition from worsening. The content of the albums will thereby be more easily accessible and discoverable. The images will be publicly disseminated and used in many outreach projects.

The Canadian fashion industry was at its creative peak in the 1980s, with a bevy of well-known Canadian designers, many still in business. In 1985, the Festival of Canadian Fashion was created to celebrate the best of Canadian fashion through catwalk shows, exhibits and designer presentations. The show grew steadily until 1989, when it was sold to the City of Toronto, on the eve on an economic meltdown. In 1990, the Festival closed.

The Fashion History Museum has acquired 4,400 images taken by the Festival's official photographer and is committed to digitizing the collection, preserving it for research and future generations of Canadians, and presenting a celebratory exhibition in 2021.

The Baker Lake tape collection consists of over 1,000 video tapes in U-matic format, in varying stages of decay. The tapes encompass Inuit cultural, historical, sociological and political development from the late 1970s to 1993. They describe and demonstrate (in Inuktitut) Inuit traditional hunting and fishing skills, shelter, clothing, transportation, food preparation, celebrations, and societal development. Participants include cherished Elders who have since passed on. Tapes include early political discussions leading to the creation of Nunavut.

As Baker Lake is the only inland Inuit community in the world, this collection is unique. The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation will catalogue, digitize and describe each tape for public access.