Grants and Contributions

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.

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.