Grants and Contributions

To mark its 100th anniversary, the McCord Museum will present a major exhibition in the summer of 2021 on Alexander Henderson, the first Canadian landscape photographer. The McCord Museum holds the most comprehensive collection of photographs by Henderson (1831–1913), with over a thousand artifacts and archival records. Based on the museum’s collection, research work and restored works, a temporary exhibition will be mounted to showcase Henderson’s signature work to the general public.

The project involves the processing of the Rita-Chevron 2 fonds. The organization plans to document, catalogue and digitize 5,600 negatives from the photographic fonds of photojournalist Rita Chevron, who worked as a still photographer for Radio-Canada Rimouski (CJBR) and Le Progrès du Golfe newspaper for over 35 years. In addition to preserving these records, the organization wishes to foster access to its archival collection, promoted through research, outreach and exhibition activities. In addition to expanding the database, the project will facilitate access to photographic archives in the Musée régional de Rimouski collection.

The project’s first phase involves a detailed inventory of 4,446 documents distributed among various Ursuline monasteries throughout Quebec. This inventory would identify historically significant documents that require digitization and prompt relocation, due to their obsolete formats. Once an audiovisual preservation specialist has provided the appropriate training, the project will enter its second phase: acquiring the equipment essential for document preservation and conservation.

The organization will process, preserve and digitize fonds of selected Alpine Club of Canada members, to increase awareness and access to the collection, and build capacity within the organization.

The fonds come from members over the Club's 114 years of existence as a national mountaineering organization. They provide context and highlight aspects of members’ personal and professional lives, to complement official club records. They contain rare and difficult-to-access media, such as diaries, 35-mm slide transparencies, photo albums, films and sound recordings. Processing these collections and digitizing analog records will increase access for researchers, preserve original materials, and provide opportunities for exhibitions, programming and scholarships.

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.

The project involves the processing of the Rita-Chevron 2 fonds. The organization plans to document, catalogue and digitize 5,600 negatives from the photographic fonds of photojournalist Rita Chevron, who worked as a still photographer for Radio-Canada Rimouski (CJBR) and Le Progrès du Golfe newspaper for over 35 years. In addition to preserving these records, the organization wishes to foster access to its archival collection, promoted through research, outreach and exhibition activities. In addition to expanding the database, the project will facilitate access to photographic archives in the Musée régional de Rimouski collection.

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 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.

To mark its 100th anniversary, the McCord Museum will present a major exhibition in the summer of 2021 on Alexander Henderson, the first Canadian landscape photographer. The McCord Museum holds the most comprehensive collection of photographs by Henderson (1831–1913), with over a thousand artifacts and archival records. Based on the museum’s collection, research work and restored works, a temporary exhibition will be mounted to showcase Henderson’s signature work to the general public.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture will complete an archival migration that involves reprocessing and migrating data for four major Canadian archives: the fonds of Arthur Erickson, Melvin Charney, Roger D’Astous and Luc Laporte. The organization will migrate these fonds from The Museum System to a new Archive Management System. This will enable the organization to:
• improve its ability to use structured data to create finding aids,
• facilitate the use of data for the website,
• define new data types to facilitate searches (e.g. keywords),
• perform reporting,
• adopt a system that permits better use of data, and
• adhere to international standards for all of these activities.