Grants and Contributions

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) will facilitate access to archival holdings related to a 35-year history of organizing public events and educational symposia related to its mandate and to Holocaust commemoration. The VHEC has a mandate to collect, preserve and make accessible documentary heritage that supports the organization in its efforts to promote social justice, human rights and genocide awareness. The VHEC will process records related to its annual educational symposium, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah and Kristallnacht anniversary events, and the High Holidays cemetery service. These records include research and curatorial files, audio-video recordings, multi-media content, design files, plans, photographs, correspondence, and finance-related files. Specifically, the organization will arrange, describe and create a finding aid for event records, and then publish them online to make them accessible and searchable for educators, students, community members and researchers.

This project involves three fonds in the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation’s (WAF) collection: the Green Blankstein Russell (GBR) fonds; the Roy Sellors fonds; and the Dennis Carter fonds. The fonds contain materials related to several of Winnipeg's most significant buildings and their designers. The main objectives are to increase access to WAF’s collection; to preserve the original documents; and to inform WAF’s research program. Project activities include the creation of finding aids, digitization of 25 percent of the collection (the organization will prioritize materials related to buildings of architectural significance), and the creation of captions and metadata. A professional archivist will create the finding aids, train staff and volunteers, and be available for consultation throughout the project.

The project concerns audiovisual archives that include sound archives and moving images of the first actors and organizations that worked in the Magdalen Islands. By targeting the most fragile collections as a priority, the Centre d'archives régional des Îles will digitize and catalogue these archives in order to facilitate access while preserving their integrity. This project will be followed by an audiovisual commemorative event at the beginning of the second year of the project, marking the 165th anniversary of the post office in the Magdalen Islands and 110 years of the history of the ponchon.

The Lobo Township Book Committee created a collection to record this area's history and transferred these records to the Middlesex Centre Archives. The images represent many aspects of native and early settlement up to 1990, and show various dimensions of the primarily rural community – including education, religion, industry, agriculture, military, organizations, transportation, recreation and the histories of many families still in the area. The organization plans to arrange and describe the records; provide preventative conservation for the collection's 2 000 images and photographs; and create descriptions for the other records. This involves transferring negatives and images to appropriate storage containers, creating a finding aid, and uploading the information to Archeion. Once properly stored, the organization will make the images available to the public.

The Multicultural History Society of Ontario (MHSO) will digitize 1,054 oral history interviews recorded on 1,625 audiocassette tapes in the 1970s and 1980 and label these files using a pre-determined, standardized, naming convention. It will upload the digital files to systems/servers built for the Society’s digital archive. The interviews are part of a nationally significant collection that is valued by researchers and represents Canadian immigrant and ethnic experiences. This project will preserve unique and non-renewable heritage resources that are currently at risk of deterioration and will improve access to these primary source materials for academics, teachers, students, community historians, heritage professionals, ethnocultural organizations, and the public.

BC Soccer is the sports organization for soccer in British Columbia, recognized by the provincial government and Canada Soccer for governing and promoting the sport. The association has collected a wide range of documents and photographs, the earliest dating back to 1910. Over the last two years, volunteer members have been reviewing stored materials, identifying the most important, and starting to preserve, inventory and catalogue this material to make it available for members, historians and the public. This project entails digitizing the remaining 900 documents and photos, and developing and promoting an archival website to make this material accessible to all.

The Nikkei National Museum (NNM) and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre are partnering to preserve and make accessible the materials related to their project, Home Run at Powell Street. The historic Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver, BC is one of the earliest established communities that was forcibly lost during the Second World War; it was also home base to the legendary Vancouver Asahi Baseball Team. Situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, in particular, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Japanese Canadians called this area Paueru-gai. Today, the neighbourhood faces the threat of gentrification, demolition and the potential loss of a vibrant multicultural community. The project aims to capture the history of the Powell Street area through digitization, description, conservation, cleaning, and long-term storage, to make this collection accessible, in-person and through a shared online database hosted by the NNM.

This project will document audio recordings belonging to the Northern Native Broadcasting, Yukon (NNBY) archives. This component includes archival recordings of Yukon First Nations people, events and communities: including Elders, Indigenous language speakers, culture bearers and leaders, key events (such as land claim negotiations and agreements), traditional and evolving cultural practices, residential schools and their impact, and other historic and community events. A preliminary catalogue of NNBY TV broadcast recordings offers some accessibility to the videos; however, there is no listing for audio recordings. The project will establish an inventory of NNBY audio recordings from CHON-FM radio programs, oral histories and recordings made for or donated to NNBY, circa 1970 to 2000. Project objectives include the development of a database with key metadata for NNBT audio recordings and a preservation plan to safeguard these recordings for future generations.

The project aims to support the creation of Saskatchewan's new and first Centre d'archives en français in Regina in 2019, in the implementation of the administrative management system and a training and support framework for volunteers. The training framework aims to develop video(s) to reach and train volunteers throughout the province of Saskatchewan, within a very rural community. The project will also include the implementation of an archival management system for the collection and processing of French-language archives.

The project focusses on the photographic archive collection of Robert W. Reford. On the one hand, 8,200 new photographic documents (nitrate negatives, slides, glass plate photographs, etc.) will be digitized by IDnum Technologie. On the other hand, a multimedia experiment by Umanium will reveal the richness of Robert W. Reford's archive collection, particularly the portraits he made of his wife. The digitization of documents on old media will make it possible to integrate new portraits of Elsie Reford into the multimedia installation.