Grants and Contributions

This project aims to facilitate improved access to a significant collection in the Historeum’s archival holdings. The collection consists of 44 meters of school registers from 139 schools in Colchester County and spans 118 years from 1868-1986. Approximately two thirds of the records have yet to be rehoused and digitized to ensure the long-term preservation of vital information.

In 2025, the McCord Stewart Museum will present a story of street photography in Montréal, from the 19th century to the present. Drawn from the Museum’s collection, it will present a series of works by more than 20 photographers who have demonstrated a deep commitment to depicting the various dimensions of the street: as a space to protest, a commercial ground, an expression of the urban fabric, a site of performance, a place for expressing identity, and more.

The Kaatza Historical Society wishes to digitize its forest industry and community archival collections, to both increase access to researchers and the public and to preserve its collections. The Society wishes to use the Documentary Heritage Community Grant to pay the wages of an archivist and a digitization intern. The funding would be used to digitize in-house and increase access to several collections, including 3 photo collections and 2 newspaper collections.

The project will focus on sound recordings of stories and songs to simplify the process of searching by title, name of singer or storyteller, year and place of recording. This project would allow us to continue our collaboration with the Université de Poitiers in France, making our traditional songs accessible to researchers everywhere.

This project aims at appraising and describing 2,000 AV materials and digitizing and making available 600 sound and audio-visual recordings documenting Canada’s architectural heritage. These materials, which are unique and of national historical significance, are currently inaccessible to the public in addition to being vulnerable to physical deterioration and technological obsolescence.

The proposed project will publish 1300 image and document records with accessibility assets to grunt gallery’s online archive. Specifically, this will entail the creation and metadata population of records in grunt's archival database, the upload of existing digitized objects to those records, and the creation of two types of accessibility assets: visual descriptions for images and transcripts for documents.

St. Paul’s Anglican Church (Lindsay) Archives Description and Access Project strives to gain control over the church's vast collection of archival holdings, dating back almost 200 years, in the interests of preserving them and making them accessible to parishioners and researchers. This undertaking will involve rehousing the records in accordance with best practices; adding archival descriptions to records; digitizing/scanning photographs, and increasing access via provincial, national, and international database portals.

We want to fund a one-year position for an Archives Assistant in our consolidated archives in London, Ontario to provide a BIPOC candidate with experience in archival work. The Sisters of St. Joseph understand that representation matters and are committed to increase diversity within the archival profession. This project will carry out preservation, arrangement, description on our congregational annals and St. Joseph's Hospital and Nursing School, London records. Oral history recordings will be assessed and digitized.

This project will increase access to a part of Inuit and Canadian documentary heritage and raise awareness of ICC Canada’s innovation and capacity for archival management and outreach. The key activities of ‘Translation and outreach’ are: translation of approx. 39,000 words of archival descriptions from English to Inuktitut (syllabics, South Baffin); conversion of approx. 39,000 words of archival descriptions from English/Inuktitut to Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait and translation of a 930-word video script from English to Inuktitut (South Baffin) and narration of said video;

Our project aims to preserve, share and increase access to recordings, print media and artifacts important to Caldwell First Nation's history, currently placed in storage in our administrative offices, scheduled to be consolidated at a dedicated archival facility.