Grants and Contributions

The CKUT Time Capsule will digitally preserve and make accessible the archival fonds generated by a decade of documenting unheard perspectives: a live broadcast by lesbian program Dykes on Mykes taking calls during the 1989 Polytechnique massacre; CKUT’s Community News Department reporting from behind the military lines at the Oka Crisis; detailed coverage of the AIDS crisis from Black, Indigenous, people of color, and queer perspectives.
The project will focus on digitizing hundreds of programming guides, photos, documents, and audio recordings from the years 1989 to 1999.

The main two objectives of the Iwan Boberskyj Collection Digitization Project are to preserve the collection and make it publicly accessible.

: Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice wants to digitize and publish 119 manuscripts written by the Sulpicians from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It intends to make public the entire contents of these manuscripts and support consultation of the documents by a broader public, mainly through its Web portal, for educational and knowledge purposes, particularly in regard to the reappropriation of Indigenous languages.

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.

The Cinémathèque québécoise is seeking to digitize and restore the film components of the documentary series Le Son des Français d’Amérique, in order to preserve these films and to make them accessible on digital platforms.

The Multicultural History Society of Ontario (MHSO) is rearranging and re-describing its archival holdings in a multi-year initiative. Its overall objective is to increase public awareness of, and access to, archival materials documenting the histories of ethnocultural and Indigenous communities. In the final phase of the initiative, the Society will focus on collections of hardcopy newspapers and newsletters currently in storage. Specifically, it will review and appraise 325 newspapers and 585 newsletters produced by / for 50 different communities. It will rearrange—both physically and intellectually—and then re-describe these materials. It will prepare administrative histories based on research it conducts for the newspapers and the organizations that produced the newsletters.

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.

The Kaatza Historical Society wishes to modernize its forest industry archival collections, by (1) creating descriptions and finding aids that follow the Rules of Archival Description, and (2) ensuring access for researchers and members of the public. We wish to use the Documentary Heritage Community Grant to pay the wages of an archivist and to cover the costs of equipment necessary for safely storing these historical documents and making them accessible.

The Frog Lake Library will work with local libraries and postsecondary institutions in order to build internal and community capacity to digitize and share knowledge from documentary, oral and embedded sources about Frog Lake First Nations’ (FLFNs) histories, so that the Nations’ continuing memory is documented, preserved, and available to the public for current and future generations. This project will lead to digitizing a collection of historical paper documents, which will be contextualized with knowledge from local Elders and then made available online for the purpose of increasing access to, and awareness of, FLFNs’ local documentary heritage.

The objectives of this project are to digitize and rehouse these items and add them to RMDC’s online database.