Grants and Contributions

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.

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).

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.

This project is a major opportunity to carry out the digitizing of oral material that represents a legacy of Secwepemc knowledge, including language and culture. The project will take a comprehensive approach to the digitization of various oral resources housed in the Secwepemc Museum and Archives, including the digitization of legacy recordings, specifically recordings of traditional activities, songs, Secwepemc language, and history.

This project builds upon a 2019-2020 digitization project by the Walpole Island Heritage Centre, and it aims to digitize existing documentary heritage related to our Anishinaabe language and culture held by the Heritage Centre and other Walpole Island First Nation departments and programs. The project's main goals are to establish a community resource for language and cultural heritage digitization, digitize 100s of physical documents, maps, language resource/education materials, 1000s of photographs, and over 200 analogue recordings create descriptive metadata to aid greater access to discovery by community members, devise and enact a preservation strategy for digitized materials and develop and launch a content management system (CMS) for accessibility.

This project will purchase digitization equipment.

This project is to procure digitization equipment to support the digitization achievements through a previously LHOV funded project for Cree language revitalization, culture and history and continued digitization and transcribing for the collection.

A donation was made to the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC) of more than 6,400 Indigenous education materials which included 38 teaching manuals varying in length from 50 pages to 200 pages. These teaching manuals were led by the Manitoba Native Education Department in partnership with First-language speakers and Indigenous community linguists from 1971 - 1985 to encourage Indigenous language learning. This project will digitize, catalogue and preserve digital copies of teaching manuals within the MICEC Heritage Collection, while still being made available to Indigenous Language learners and community members, including the Indigenous language learning community.