Grants and Contributions

The Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation (CHPF) houses an extensive archive of photographic images by award-winning Canadian photographer George Hunter. In this project, the CHPF will preserve, digitize and make available approximately 4,000 photographs (from the larger collection) featuring landscape and culture in Quebec and the Maritime provinces from 1940 to 1990.

Photographs include images of daily life, aerial shots, industry, farming, cities and small towns. By digitizing and making these images available to researchers, community groups, historians, teachers and the public, in both official languages, the collection offers points of reference, historical context and representations of cultural diversity within Canada.

The project involves processing and digitizing some photographs from the John E. Gleason fonds. This impressive collection comprises photographs taken between 1949 and the early 1990s.

The project focuses on public events that document numerous aspects of life and the environment and are of interest to researchers. These images are in high demand and will be used in various outreach activities. The project will make the photographs accessible to a wider audience.

By conducting oral history interviews with activist leaders from the 1970s to the 1990s, History of Disability Rights Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. will preserve stories about the highs and lows of a social movement that continues to seek equitable access to basic rights and services for persons with disabilities. The organization will digitize and post these interviews on social media, making them accessible to people across the country.

The Société d’histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal plans to showcase two fonds that are important to the history of Mile End and the preservation of the Plateau Mont Royal’s heritage: the Kevin Cohalan fonds and the Société Mile-End pour l’histoire et la culture fonds. This project aims to digitize documents, create a virtual exhibition with an image bank, and hold a public event featuring a filmed testimonial by Kevin Cohalan, in addition to documenting the oral history of developments related to the project.

This project concerns fonds with a national scope that have never been processed or described to Rules for Archival Description standards despite their heavy use. A project archivist will be hired to appraise, process, arrange and describe the collections, before making their descriptions and finding aids available on the ArQuives website. This will allow Canadians to see the collections held by the ArQuives, including the collections available for research.

This project concerns fonds of individuals and organizations who helped to shape Canada’s LGBTQ2+ community and by extension had an impact on Canadian history.

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 concerns fonds with a national scope that have never been processed or described to Rules for Archival Description standards despite their heavy use. A project archivist will be hired to appraise, process, arrange and describe the collections, before making their descriptions and finding aids available on the ArQuives website. This will allow Canadians to see the collections held by the ArQuives, including the collections available for research.
This project concerns fonds of individuals and organizations who helped to shape Canada’s LGBTQ2+ community and by extension had an impact on Canadian history.

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.

The Council of Nova Scotia Archives (CNSA) is responsible for a provincial catalogue called MemoryNS. The organization wishes to increase the use of MemoryNS by contributors and researchers, in both official languages.

This project involves a usability test to improve user experience and support the development of a tool that facilitates data sharing from local databases to portal websites. The project will support CNSA members, especially Francophone institutions, in their efforts to add more descriptions to MemoryNS. As content increases, the CNSA will promote the tool, increase awareness through social and traditional media, and offer training to targeted sectors across Nova Scotia.

The Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive will conduct 25 interviews with Toronto-based activists in the feminist movement from 1970 to 1998. The interviews will enhance the organization’s archival history of the feminist movement and be accessible to all.

Interviewees come from sectors, including equal pay, reproductive rights, lesbian rights, child care, women against violence against women, anti-Black racism, visible-minority women, immigrant women, Indigenous women, disability rights, the labour movement, and feminist publishing. The goal is to explore the key issues and debates of the period, as experienced by these women.

The organization will process and upload the interviews to its website and safely preserve them for the future.