Grants and Contributions

Our current project is a continuation of the work done during Cheslatta Carrier Nation's earlier digitization efforts. Through Library and Archives Canada's Listen, Hear Our Voices initiative, those efforts successfully digitized 185 VHS tapes, 82 cassettes, 713 historical maps, 1 452 photographs, and over 82 000 pages of archival documents. The continued digitization of this collection will help ensure the sustainability of Cheslatta peoples' oral and written history, as well as the documented relationship we have with our land.

This project will contribute to a five-year study that aims to undertake a comprehensive historical analysis of the changing land tenure of the Metis community at the Saskatchewan River Forks (Pahonanis) region, known alternately as Glen Mary/Pahonan/Horseshoe Bend, and determine the factors that led to the creation of a short-lived Metis rehabilitation colony on ‘Section 29’ in 1943.

As part of that work, this project will 1) develop a detailed spatial and narrative history of the Anglo-Scotch/Cree Metis; 2) create an innovative mixed-methods framework for comprehensive analysis and dissemination through the Gathering Together Digital Platform; and 3) build community capacity through training of community members and Indigenous students.

The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) undertakes the annual cataloguing and digitization of as many analog tapes as possible. Analog content is digitized to hard drives for real-time viewing, describing, and presenting on publicly accessible web platforms. Since the project’s inception in 2014, IBC has digitized over 3 200 analog tapes, mostly in U-Matic format. For the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the project’s main goal is to catalogue and digitize another 200 Betacam tapes.

This project will implement the first two objectives of the organization’s Digitization Strategy: (1) digitize analog documentary heritage at very high risk of degradation and loss; and (2) acquire the skills and resources necessary to improve archival management practices to ensure the viability and sustainability of our actions to transmit Indigenous languages and cultures.

The Ktunaxa Nation recently acquired 115 audio recordings originally archived at the California Language Archive. These language recordings include histories, lessons, conversations, word lists, and other language materials that are invaluable to the Nation's efforts to revitalize the language.

The Traditional Knowledge & Language sector of the Ktunaxa Nation Council will undertake this project, bringing together skilled learners and fluent speakers to collaboratively transcribe and translate these recordings, and to share those transcriptions and translations in digital form. Once the Ktunaxa transcriptions and English translations have been approved and saved on Ktunaxa Nation servers, these sets of recordings, transcriptions, and translations will be made available to community members at a listening station.

The objective of the project is to supply the online catalogue of the AGQ with four collections identified as priority needs: periodicals, books, fanzines, theses and dissertations. The collections included in this project are excellent gateways for research into sexual and gender diversity in Canada. Nearly 3,000 titles will be indexed and reported in Koha, an online open-source database.

Key activities of this project include the hiring of an archivist who will develop standards, practices, and policy, assess current archive situation, create recommendations and a work plan that will guide untrained volunteers in archive management and will train volunteers to recognize and integrate archival best practices. The collection includes local family, business, and organization histories in the form of maps, documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, DVDs and audio cassettes.

The Cegertec Fonds contains original plans for work carried out in the private and public sectors between 1945 and 2010 in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region and elsewhere in Quebec. It includes approximately 5,500 projects in various domains. The project involves evaluating and sorting documents, cleaning them, replacing containers and filing them in their original order. In addition, the web portal will be able to distribute the descriptions and provide free training on the use of digital search tools.

This project will establish an on-site Archives space within the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami office. At present, ITK's Archives are stored in the office basement or in an off-site third party storage facility. The ITK Archives currently consists of an estimated 1200 boxes of paper records, photos, tapes, film and other media, as well as nearly 40 maps and other large format records. The contents of many of the boxes in off-site storage are currently unidentified. An important component of this project will be creating a high-level inventory for the entire Archive.

The organization houses a collection of materials related to the Mohawk Institute, known as the “Mush Hole” to its students. In 2023, a project was undertaken with DHCP funding to rework this collection to make it into a usable and easy to navigate fonds arranged and described by Haudenosaunee individuals. If funding is received for 2024, the goal would be to scan all materials in the reworked fonds to create digitally-accessible copies of the records.