Grants and Contributions

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Horse Lake First Nation (Industry Relations Corporation) to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the assessment process for the Black Bear Power Plant Project.

This project aims to implement permanent infrastructure improvements along the 14 Avenue S and 15 Avenue S corridors to improve the safety, mobility and efficiency of all travel modes along these two corridors. Each corridor spanning 2.15km through the Beltline communities of West Connaught, Connaught Centre and Victoria Park, which are located immediately south of Calgary's busy central business district. The project scope includes upgrading the existing temporary on-street painted bike lanes to protected cycle tracks along the 15 Avenue S corridor and establishing a permanent one-way configuration for all modes of travel. In addition, pedestrian improvements are planned for both 14 Avenue S and 15 Avenue S, which together, will include 4.3km of complete streets roadway upgrades.

Active mode improvements to these corridors provide a unique opportunity to integrate accessible, inclusive, and protected network connections for active transportation users, and additionally, provide enhanced operational benefits for all area road network users. This project will also facilitate better access and connectivity to businesses in the area and along the newly upgraded commercial district along the adjacent 17 Avenue S corridor.

This project involves conducting research on the feasibility of establishing a centralized simultaneous and consecutive court interpretation service for provinces.

The grant supports the re-printing of the Louisbourg Institute of Cape Breton University’s bilingual (French and English) book called French Taste in Atlantic Canada – 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History. This publication explores how the first generations of French who settled in the region learned about, reacted to, and began to work with local Indigenous food knowledge and ingredients.

This grant will support Bearspaw First Nation to provide the opportunity and location for Elders’ oral and video histories that will be shared with Bar U Ranch Visitor Centre visitors as part of the Visitor Centre Rejuvenation Project.

This grant supports Haida language planning, language immersion and interactive workshops, community action and technology workshops for the 2024 Haida Language Gathering.

This grant supports the Manitoba Métis Federation in preparing the historic garden at Riel House National Historic Site. This project will foster education and engagement for visitors with historic Métis gardening practices, period appropriate plants and the distribution of the harvest to the Métis Nation

This grant enables Nunatsiavut Inuit beneficiaries to reconnect with their homeland and provide opportunities to understand how to make the Torngat Mountains National Park a living, vibrant Inuit homeland that is meaningful in the present and the future

This contribution supports the enhancing of an office space and visitor center within a multi-use building owned by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) in Resolute Bay. The renovations will allow QIA to attract tenants, comply with current standards and participate in economic and touristic development in the community.

The contribution supports the participation of the Adams Land Indian Band in the development of the Aquatics Stewardship Plans for Yoho and Kootenay national parks.