Grants and Contributions

The Archives Association of British Columbia will undertake a two year project to deliver six multi-day clinics in five different regions of British Columbia. The clinics will be educational workshops providing training and in-person archival expertise to Indigenous knowledge keepers and First Nations community members, as well as staff in community archives or memory institutions. The scope, topics and focus of the clinics will be determined in consultation with each community and customized to the needs of the region.

This project will arrange, describe, preserve, and make available 150 years of archives created or accumulated by the Cathedral in the course of business and relating to life within the Anglican community in Prince Edward Island.

The Italian-Canadian Archives Project will develop Sarnia-Lambton's Italian-Canadian Community Narratives Project: Phase One. This project will digitize and curate a collection of twenty-five first-hand accounts of Italian-Canadian immigrants to the Sarnia-Lambton region. These accounts will then be uploaded to a website hosted by the Lambton County Archives. A virtual exhibit will launch in December of 2018 for the Sarnia community, accompanied by a symposium/workshop.

This project will arrange, describe, preserve, and make available 150 years of archives created or accumulated by the Cathedral in the course of business and relating to life within the Anglican community in Prince Edward Island.

The Archives Association of British Columbia will undertake a two-year project to deliver six multi-day clinics in five different regions of British Columbia. The clinics will be educational workshops providing training and in-person archival expertise to Indigenous knowledge keepers and First Nations community members, as well as staff in community archives or memory institutions. The scope, topics and focus of the clinics will be determined in consultation with each community and customized to the needs of the region.

The goal of this project is to digitally preserve, and create a public access point for a collection of documents aggregated from historic figures in Ontario’s petroleum industry. Every eligible document will be imaged to create a digital archive. The digital collection will be presented online in a public and searchable index. In addition, any document with a spatial component will be geo-referenced in Geographic Information Systems and displayed on an online map available for browsing.

The project has two components. The first consists of a series of interviews of former miners in the region to collect their histories and stories about their work in the mines, labour relations, safety, the evolution of technology, etc. The second component will use these oral interviews and the archival documents and audio records in the museum's collections to develop a bilingual self-guided tour allowing visitors to the historical centre to take the tour on their own. The museum hopes to make its audio guide available to visitors for the 2019 summer season.

This project will focus on processing and providing collection-level access to approximately 20 archival collections from the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia (JMABC). The related work will include appraisal, arrangement, description, and the creation of a finding aid, which will then be made available through the JMABC’s online database, AtoM (Access to Memory).

The Mugshot Mayhem project will establish the foundation for the digitization of 5 manuscripts that are in poor physical condition, need a comprehensive preservation plan, have recently come into public domain, and are the subject of frequent requests for access. This project will see the development of an archival digitization program at the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives and the first comprehensive conservation undertaking for the manuscript collection, setting the stage for continued best practices in both areas.

The CLGA Processing Project (Part 2) will focus on fonds with a national scope that have not been processed or described to RAD standards despite their heavy use. This will include processing, arrangement and description of various collections before making the descriptions and finding aids available through online databases.