Grants and Contributions

Key activities will involve updating archival descriptions in current finding aids to include community names, compiling 18 individual community finding aids, and finally distributing these finding aids to communities and providing training in their use. Historically, Dakelh and Sekani Peoples have been less documented compared to other BC First Nations, so this project fills a need to provide knowledge of and access to this vital documentary heritage, and to increase awareness of the CSTC collection.

The National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYO Canada) aims to restore and digitize its audio archival collection of 47 audio reels and 1 record from the 1970s and 80s. These recordings comprise chamber and orchestral concerts featuring prominent musicians worldwide who gained their experience through the NYO Canada orchestral training program.

With this project, CPAC is proposing to make publicly available, on its website, approximately 206 audiovisual recordings of its broadcast coverage of the 2004 Canadian federal election campaign. CPAC’s television coverage of this election, including broadcasts of party leaders’ events and on-the-ground reporting from hotly contested ridings, allowed viewers to bear witness to a shifting political landscape that led to the first of three consecutive minority parliaments.

The VHEC proposes to conserve and digitize materials donated to the VHEC by Vancouver-based Holocaust survivors and their descendants for the purpose of enhancing finding aids and catalogue records. Materials include diaries, drawings, documents, and correspondence from German-Jewish refugees interned in Canadian internment camps, photo albums documenting refugee immigration, as well as correspondence and identity documents.

This project aims to digitize oral history recordings presenting the heritage of the English-speaking communities of the Eastern Townships from at-risk media formats, to transcribe them, and to make them available to the public through the organization's online database.

Cinémathèque québécoise wants to migrate its new database to an online catalogue to make its collection better known and more easily accessible to national and international researchers. The organization holds the most complete collection of Canadian films, as well as an extensive library of film documentation. The works are accompanied by related archives such as photographs, scripts, correspondence, posters, and production documents.

The objective of the project is to preserve, classify and describe in accordance with the RADs, digitize, convert, and integrate catalogue fonds online. This will enable the creation of a wall and commemorative display on health in remote island regions to mark the 85th anniversary of its first hospital, and a web campaign to raise awareness.

Key activities will include research into digital preservation and preservation tools, processing and describing born-digital collections, and sharing selected digital content via the online database on the Centre du patrimoine’s website.

The objective of the project is to showcase and preserve 30,000 photographic negatives from newspaper Le Nouvelliste’s fonds. The goal is also to make these archives known and accessible to all Canadians. The project aims to digitize 30,000 documents in TIFF format, the content of which will be described in accordance with the Rules for Archival Description (RAD).

The 2024/25 CYFN Archives Arrangement Description and Access project will focus on 4 CYI series and 3 predecessor organization fonds within the CYFN Archives. The Project Archivist will complete appraisals, arrangement, RAD descriptions, re-housing, dispositions and ATIPP assessments to serve CYFN, Yukon First Nations and other researchers.