Grants and Contributions

Over the next five years, the project will focus on the continued provision of wrap-around, holistic care service delivery and child-focused, trauma-informed collaborative response to child abuse, designed to facilitate powerful positive experiences for children and their families.

Jurisdictional funding agreement for State-Funded Counsel in Yukon.

State-Funded Counsel Funding Agreement in Quebec.

Jurisdictional funding agreement for State-Funded Counsel in Yukon.

This project was started in May of 2022 with the hiring of an archivist through the generous combined funding of Young Canada Works (YCW) and Youth Break Barriers to Employment (YBBE).

The Maple Ridge Historical Society is turning much of its focus towards improved preservation of its physical archival records. The project revolves around the acquisition of specialized equipment to isolate materials from uncontrolled environments in the archival facility. The archives contains a variety of materials sensitive to degradation, including a collection of over 100,000 negatives from renowned Maple Ridge photographer, Don Waite. The acquisition of cold storage and humidity management equipment will allow sensitive materials to be preserved for future visitors and researchers to access.

This project involves recording the oral histories of at least 100 residents and former residents of the Lakes District, with a special emphasis on the oral histories of people of Indigenous and non-Caucasian descent. The history of the Lakes District is not just the history of the colonizers; many non-Caucasians contributed to the region’s growth.

The Canadian Railroad Historical Association (CRHA) Archives and Documentation Centre wishes to improve accessibility to its archives, while optimizing its archive management. To this end, a targeted analysis was conducted in 2021. Four commercially available systems, including the one currently used by the Centre, were evaluated in depth based on the needs of the organization and its clients. The results of this analysis led to the selection of AtoM software. The current project consists of installing the AtoM software in the Centre’s infrastructure and configuring it based on the internal classification plan. Then, the descriptive, bibliographic and image records contained in ArchiLog—the software currently used at the Centre—will be migrated, and a quality validation and adjustments will take place as needed.

The NumArt project targets the following activities: Digitize, describe and preserve 25,342 photographs, which comprise the artistic and cultural photographic heritage of the Franco-Saskatchewanian community from 1974 to 2000, assembled in the collections of the Conseil culturel fransaskois and the newspaper L’Eau vive. Train and educate Francophones in archival processing. Promote this heritage through virtual exhibitions, publications and community and school activities.

Friends of Grain Elevators (FOGE) requests funding to ensure its Voices of the Grain Trade oral history collection is preserved and fully available to the public by spring 2024. The activities of this project include transcribing 144 audio files, creating archival documentation for all new and existing interview transcripts (metadata description, interview summaries, and keywords), and uploading audio files to FOGE’s website. For long-term preservation, FOGE will work with Lakehead University’s archives to store the collection, ensuring Voices will be discoverable and usable for future generations. The more than 200 narrators within the collection tell the story of how Thunder Bay once became the world’s largest grain port, as well as the modern changes that saw the industry’s decline.