Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Support the installation of permanent StoryWalk boxes by the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Network at Mallorytown Recreation Park (Front of Yonge), Lorne Park (Rideau Lakes), Rogers Trail (Gananoque), Kendricks Park (Leeds Thousand Islands).

The Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean is seeking to digitize and publish approximately 22,000 photos from the Jean le Photographe fonds, in order to preserve these visual archives, which bear witness to sixty years of regional history, and make them accessible to the public.
The images will be filed in the photo module of the Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean’s database, on the organization’s website. This will give researchers access to the photo bank online.

The Canadian National Exhibition Foundation (CNEF), in partnership with the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation (CHPF), aims to digitize 8,000 at-risk photographic negatives from the CNE archival collection.
The negatives will be rehoused by CNE archival staff in preparation for digitization. Once these images have been delivered to the archiving team at CHPF, they will be digitized. CHPF has successfully digitized more than 12,000 images through three consecutive projects funded by the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP). Once the images have been digitized and the accompanying metadata has been added, they will be uploaded to both the CHPF Digital Collections website and the CNE front-facing website and searchable database.

The collection comprises various media formats, including approximately 1,000 35mm slides, 1,000 photographs, 50 VHS tapes, and 30 posters.

Processing—for the purposes of indexing, preserving and accessing—archives of significance for Îles-de-la-Madeleine related to the founding families of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The aim of the project is to preserve, categorize and describe several fonds in accordance with Rules for Archival Description (RAD) standards, digitize the said fonds, and incorporate them into the catalogue. The project will be instrumental in creating a primer on health in remote regions.

The Accès aux archives de la Chambre de commerce de Drummondville project has three main objectives: processing the organization’s archival fonds; digitizing its content; and publishing the fonds via a consultation module accessible on the SHD website. The documentary collection under the care of the Chambre de commerce de Drummondville, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary in 2022, comprises 23.07 linear metres of textual documents (minutes, annual reports), 11,897 photographs (presidents, industries, businesses) and 76 moving images (business galas), produced from 1901 to 2015.

The project focuses on fonds with a national scope that have never been processed or described to Rules for Archival Description (RAD) standards, despite their heavy use. A project archivist will be hired to appraise, process, arrange, and describe these collections. Descriptions and finding aids will be available through an online database. This will ensure effective knowledge mobilization, allowing Canadian and international researchers and the public to know what collections are held and are available for study.

Sharing the Digital Collection at Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. is a project aimed at organizing, cataloguing, and increasing access to, the hundreds of hours of recordings housed at the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC), in Winnipeg.
Over the last year, MICEC has digitized more than 700 hours of recordings dating to the 1960s. These recordings provide valuable insights and educational opportunities for all Manitobans and all Canadians. With holdings that range from materials documenting pivotal moments in Canadian history, such as Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967 and the 1982 constitutional negotiations, to priceless recordings of Indigenous knowledge keepers speaking and sharing lessons and songs in their original languages, to educational materials produced by and for Indigenous communities dating to the 1970s, the digital archive at MICEC can become a rich and varied source of learning for researchers, archivists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and all Canadians.

The Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre (RMDC) completed a high-level inventory of its archival collection in 2020. During this inventory, RMDC identified several sets of items that would benefit from digitization. These collections, previously unknown or under-utilized, consist of 180 level maps of the Rossland mines and a collection of almost 1,000 photo negatives of individuals and scenes related to Rossland’s history. The objectives of this project are to digitize and rehouse these items and add them to RMDC’s online database.