Grants and Contributions

Build winterized cabin to increase capacity and extend tourist season.

Complete renovations to existing property to create an eco-tourism and land-based experience center.

The objective of this project is to purchase and install a Growcer system, an exterior cold storage room and purchase two produce refrigerated storage units.

The objective of this project is to purchase kitchen appliances cold storage, compost bins, a greenhouse, community gardens, and a fishing vessel.

The objective of this project is to acquire and install new poultry processing equipment which will allow the company to increase their production and efficiency through automation.

Support the proposals of professors from University of Calgary for a teaching and/or research project to create or expand partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean institutions.

The University of Victoria, working with the Transformation Division (FPLTD) in the Ministry of Attorney General (MAG), will complete a research project that aims to improve family justice system responses to intimate partner violence by exploring the issue of consensual dispute resolution in the family justice system.

Dominique Rankin, Algonquin hereditary chief and co-founder of the Kina8at organization, is the custodian of a significant archival collection, including audiovisual material, 150 audiocassettes and 40 video cassettes entirely in Anicinape. These recordings document meetings and interviews with different Elders and cultural transmitters of the Algonquin Nation of Quebec and Ontario. The collection also features approximately 2 500 photographs (prints and negatives), 700 slides, and at least 2 300 linear metres of textual documents, chronicling decades of community, cultural, and museum activities from the past half-century.

This project will digitize and describe audiovisual materials and some of the photographic and textual materials. The focus will be to prioritize the most vulnerable resources with the support of Elders who can describe them and associate them with the activities that they document, which will create opportunities for intergenerational dialogue. The initiative includes several components: completing an inventory, digitization, transcription, acquiring equipment, recruiting and training personnel in digitization and description, and making the archives accessible to the public through the Kina8at website.

The goal is to develop ultrafast pulse sensing methods for single photons with a measurement efficiency three orders of magnitude higher than previous experiments. This project combines work from two different labs: A high?efficiency ultrafast Kerr switch developed by the NRC group, and a Quantum?FROG technique designed to measure the amplitude and phase of an energy?time entangled state developed by the Waterloo group. The Kerr switch will replace the temporal measurement technique in Quantum-FROG to increase detection efficiency. To effectively combine the work from these two labs, theoretical and experimental milestones must be met. A propagation model that accurately accounts for dispersion and Kerr nonlinearity must be built. Two Kerr switches, one for each photon in an entangled pair, must be built and optimized for switching speed and efficiency. Lastly, the algorithm that recovers amplitude and phase of the entangled state must be modified to work with finite time resolution.

The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm