Grants and Contributions

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.

The objective of this project is to process holdings of approximately 11 metres of textual records and 580 photographs, including arrangement and description for all items in archival enclosures and boxes. Access will be provided through a RAD-compliant description entered into the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society's archival database program, which will make an update of the related information to MemoryBC.

The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNM) in Burnaby, BC, and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, ON, will embark on a joint project to preserve Japanese Canadian history and heritage for all Canadians. The organizations will work together to preserve records and facilitate access for researchers, scholars, students, general public, and the Vancouver Japanese Language School, the oldest Japanese language school in Canada. In 2018, the NNM will undergo renovations, which will impact its permanent and temporary storage areas. With an aim to expand, fragile records and artefacts requiring rehousing and description are at the highest risk of damage caused by the required relocation. This project aims to mitigate any loss and/or damage by processing NNM's most vulnerable and highly sought-after fonds.

This 2018 project will expand on the work that was completed in 2017. The focus will be on the creation of high-level finding aids and descriptions of the fonds for collections held in the North Pacific Cannery (NPC) archives. Specifically, the project will look to further arrange and describe (according to the Canadian archival standards in Rules for Archival Description) collections that have been identified as key to interpreting the NPC site.

The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNM) in Burnaby, British Columbia, and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, Ontario, will embark on a joint project to preserve Japanese Canadian history and heritage for all Canadians. The organizations will work together to preserve records and facilitate access for researchers, scholars, students, general public, and the Vancouver Japanese Language School, the oldest Japanese language school in Canada. In 2018, the NNM will undergo renovations, which will impact its permanent and temporary storage areas. With an aim to expand, fragile records and artefacts requiring rehousing and description are at the highest risk of damage caused by the required relocation. This project aims to mitigate any loss and/or damage by processing NNM's most vulnerable and highly sought-after fonds.

This project will result in the digitization of 74 images for preservation and access purposes, cataloguing of the images in French and English, and preservation and storage of the images to current archival standards.

In 1977, the Lost Villages Historical Society was created, and a small museum in Long Sault afterwards. The Lost Villages Historical Society carried out a series of interviews with former residents of villages and hamlets flooded for the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project (1958) to document the life of the villages before their disappearance. The Lost Villages Historical Society efforts will preserve these interviews through a transfer to a digital format.

Through processing and description, the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society will increase the accessibility of Finnish-Canadian archives housed at Lakehead University, including records of people and families, cultural and sporting organizations, labour and political organizations, and news and media.

In order to improve physical and intellectual control over collections, the objective of this project is to appraise and describe the records of the United Church of Canada Archives and to create finding aids. The resulting information will then be added to MAIN (Manitoba Archival Information Network).

The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) and its predecessor organizations generated 2,000+ boxes of archival records since 1973 – critical evidence, in a variety of formats, of negotiation processes and decisions, plus social, economic and cultural programs (e.g. housing, health, employment, education, Indigenous languages and many other programs). Efforts will be made to complete series research and designations, appraisal, selection, organization and description.