Grants and Contributions

YMCA YOU-Turn is a 3-year pilot project led by YMCA of Northern Alberta (YNAB), in collaboration with Edmonton Police Service’s Community and Youth Response Branch and Edmonton Young Offender Centre, to provide support to high-risk justice involved youth across central and northern Alberta. Through YOU-Turn, youth will be connected to resources such as employment services, mental heath support, schooling, addiction treatments, housing, family support services, etc. YMCA YOU-Turn will expand cultural support for Black and Indigenous youth by the recruitment of Youth Support Workers with experience supporting BIPOC youth as well as by partnering with Black and Indigenous community-based organizations.

The objective of the project is to supply the online catalogue of the AGQ with four collections identified as priority needs: periodicals, books, fanzines, theses and dissertations. The collections included in this project are excellent gateways for research into sexual and gender diversity in Canada. Nearly 3,000 titles will be indexed and reported in Koha, an online open-source database.

Key activities of this project include the hiring of an archivist who will develop standards, practices, and policy, assess current archive situation, create recommendations and a work plan that will guide untrained volunteers in archive management and will train volunteers to recognize and integrate archival best practices. The collection includes local family, business, and organization histories in the form of maps, documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, DVDs and audio cassettes.

The Cegertec Fonds contains original plans for work carried out in the private and public sectors between 1945 and 2010 in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region and elsewhere in Quebec. It includes approximately 5,500 projects in various domains. The project involves evaluating and sorting documents, cleaning them, replacing containers and filing them in their original order. In addition, the web portal will be able to distribute the descriptions and provide free training on the use of digital search tools.

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.

The organization houses a collection of materials related to the Mohawk Institute, known as the “Mush Hole” to its students. In 2023, a project was undertaken with DHCP funding to rework this collection to make it into a usable and easy to navigate fonds arranged and described by Haudenosaunee individuals. If funding is received for 2024, the goal would be to scan all materials in the reworked fonds to create digitally-accessible copies of the records.

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.