Grants and Contributions

The project aims to make accessible, via a Web Portal, texts and photos on the history and cadastre of 190 heritage sites in the greater Orleans region collected in a directory in place since 2016. In addition to developing a Web Portal, the project also aims to increase the preservation of documentary heritage by digitizing and downloading 300 other photos or historical documents such as wills and videos of interviews with Orleans elders from families or organizations.

The Société historique du Saguenay wants to import the digital finding aids of the archival holdings previously processed in its ARCHI-LOG archival management software. The project therefore consists of importing a large amount of data into ARCHI-LOG, but also validating and adjusting the description of the documents to comply with the Rules for the Description of Archival Documents and the requirements of the software specialized in archival management. Methods for preserving analogue and digital documents will also be validated and corrected if they do not meet archival standards.

The Brome County Historical Society (BCHS) will digitize approximately 25 meters of textual records from ca. 1787 (founding of early Eastern Townships) to the beginning of the First World War. A portion of earlier text records (Pre-Confederation) are on 35mm microfilm and include the fonds of some prominent members of Brome County. The organization will preserve and digitize these microfilm reels and upload their content to the Eastern Townships Archives Portal to make them more accessible. In addition, BCHS staff will research the textual records to create and broaden records-based biographies of local families and individuals.

This project will digitize and provide online access to letters, ledgers, maps and images from the Daniel McLachlin era, from 1852 to 1929. Daniel McLachlin was an Ottawa Valley lumber baron and entrepreneur who founded the town of Arnprior and became the first member of Parliament for South Renfrew. McLachlin’s more than 600 letters from 1834 to 1857 will provide insight into the business and personal life of this community leader. The project also protects delicate originals from further handling and offers access to rare documents from the timber industry.

The project aims to describe and digitize nearly 4,450 negatives on nitrate and acetate media to make the content of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company fonds more easily accessible. In addition, this project will ensure the preservation and conservation of targeted negatives using the Critical Moisture Indicator (CMI) method.

The Brome County Historical Society (BCHS) will digitize approximately 25 meters of textual records from ca. 1787 (founding of early Eastern Townships) to the beginning of the First World War. A portion of earlier text records (Pre-Confederation) are on 35mm microfilm and include the fonds of some prominent members of Brome County. The organization will preserve and digitize these microfilm reels and upload their content to the Eastern Townships Archives Portal to make them more accessible. In addition, BCHS staff will research the textual records to create and broaden records-based biographies of local families and individuals.

In this project, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (now known as The ArQuives) will focus on fonds with a national scope that have never been processed or described to Rules for Archival Description (RAD) standards, despite their heavy use. The organization will appraise, physically process, arrange and describe various collections before making their descriptions and finding aids available on the organization’s online databases. Collections to be processed include the Community One Foundation fonds and the AIDS Action Now! fonds.

The Inuit Art Foundation is working to increase community access to Inuit artistic heritage. This project will enable the organization to digitally preserve images and documentation of Inuit art, artists, communities, gatherings and cultural history, and make them accessible to the public, and in particular, to the Inuit themselves. The archive consists of slides, photographs and negatives of artwork, artists, Inuit communities and significant gatherings in the contemporary development of Inuit art. It is comprised of over 40,000 slides, photographs, negatives and contact sheets depicting artwork, artists, communities and events from every community in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit regions) between 1965 and 2005.

The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia will complete the processing, arrangement, description, and selected digitization of the Canadian Jewish Congress – Pacific Region fonds (CJC-PR). Two thirds of this fonds has already been processed with the support of a Young Canada Works grant. This final phase involves processing materials donated to the collection in 2018 by the successor of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Archival activities include processing the recently donated materials, creating a finding aid, and making this collection accessible to research requests from around the world, including organizations from Jewish and non-Jewish communities, other religious organizations, social welfare groups, and politicians. The materials are in generally good condition. However, there is a need to separate photographs and artifacts from paper documents and provide for appropriate storage in acid-free folders and boxes made to a professional standard.

This project focuses on the needs of Inuinnait—a distinct regional group of Inuit living in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society will record Inuinnait oral documentary heritage from a diminishing group of knowledge holders. The Society recognizes that the tangible memories and the knowledge, values, beliefs, and practices held by these Elders is the foundation of the Inuinnait culture. This unique knowledge will soon be gone, and with it, a significant proportion of Inuinnait culture and heritage will disappear entirely. This project will document Inuinnait experiences, heritage and knowledge through a series of first-person recorded interviews that are translated and transcribed, and available in English and Inuinnaqtun. This project will create a permanent record of documented traditional knowledge to help current and future generations connect to and maintain Inuinnait culture.