Grants and Contributions

This project aims to digitize, rehouse, and add items to the organization’s online database. Digitizing these items will allow RMDC to utilize these collections to fill in gaps in Rossland’s documentary history as well as increase public access to and awareness of the collection. The organization will train staff and volunteers to learn the software and steps needed to carry out the project.

The project aims to interview Elders and community members to capture their stories and traditional knowledge. These interviews will cover topics like language revitalization, traditional governance, medicine, land stewardship, and family histories. The collection will include both written transcriptions and audio recordings of the interviews.

This project will ensure the preservation and accessibility of records added to the Stó:lo Library and Archives - thereby increasing access to, and awareness of, the history of the Stó:lo Nation, an organization of Stó:lo communities which has its roots in several forerunner organizations focused on Stó:lo governance and rights and title, including participation in the modern treaty process, dating back to the 1970s.

The key activities are transcribing the recordings and working with fluent hul'q'umi'num' speaking Elders to translate and verify accuracy. There are 830 recordings created by a respected SFN Elder during her decades teaching hul'q'umi'num' to community members. The collection was donated in 2020. Many of these lessons included teachings from other community Elders - most of which have now passed.

The project aims to digitize, preserve, and provide access to EDAM’s collection of ¾” U-matic, ½” open reel, Hi8, VHS and Mini DV video tapes that document unique dance works presented at EDAM from 1982 to 2012. This will be the major archival project to commemorate forty years of EDAM, and aims to draw awareness to its important contribution to Canadian dance history, and internationally to the dance form Contact Improvisation.

The Sandy Bay Oral History and Digitization Project builds off existing oral history research to preserve the history, language, and culture of the Sandy Bay for the benefit of future educational and cultural programs. In 2023, researchers collected oral history interviews with Sandy Bay elders and key knowledge holders.

A collection of oral histories will be recorded to enhance and increase awareness of the NOTL Museum's Oral History website, with complementary audio visual material and artifacts documented and added to the permanent digital collection of the NOTL Museum, adding depth, education, and greater awareness to these stories. Accompanying visual components will include diaries, maps, photographs, music, and family memorabilia

BCN is developing a collection of documented oral history through mapping interviews with elders and knowledge holders. The collection currently includes audio recordings, notes, interview maps, and GIS shapefiles from 40 interviews carried out between 2008 and 2015. The current project aims to strengthen this collection. The project team will digitize past oral history interview materials and maps for secure storage and use by the Nation. It will also build the Nation’s collection of documented oral history through conducting 7 new interviews focused on the BCN people’s connections to their ancestral lands.

Key activities of this project include: training of volunteers, labelling with accession number and adding essential description of images, uploading digital images to the Flickr database, freely available to the public along with related textual information and community engagement through invitations to participate in the documentation process.

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.