Grants and Contributions

Historically, the Society of Friends (Quakers) has been instrumental in advancing business and industry in Coldstream, Ontario. The scope of this project is the digitization of early records and photographs from businesses and industries, personal records, and publications from the area Quakers.
The key activities for the project are the digitization of approximately 3 metres of records, which include 250 photographs. Two metres of these records consist of ledger books. The rest of the material is included in the list below and related to the Quakers' importance in rural Ontario. The project will begin June 1, 2022, and will be completed by March 31, 2023.

Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) has approximately 200 metres of archival materials that require management. The materials include textual and audiovisual records from the CLFN Band Administration. The information in those records pertains to land claims and environmental monitoring, and includes interviews with community members and CLFN elders and a wide variety of content that a First Nations government produces. The archives has not had an archivist to manage this information.

The mandate of the Department of Culture and Heritage is “to document, preserve and promote Gwich’in culture, language, traditional knowledge and values.” The Department conducts research in the areas of culture, language and traditional knowledge so that this body of knowledge will be recorded and available for future generations, and to assist in the development of programs appropriate for Gwich'in needs.

As Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) (formerly Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) celebrates its 50th year, this project aims to digitize and make accessible vital records and publications from its founding decade. This work will support ongoing efforts to improve the availability of ITK’s documentary heritage and increase the organization’s capacity for collection stewardship and sharing its digital records. Key activities will include installing and setting up a digital repository system; and digitizing records from two selected collections and making them accessible through the newly implemented repository.

The goal is to continue the work started in phase 1 of this project, which was to digitize as many videocassettes as possible (in Beta and VHS formats, for which the copyright and the reproduction rights have been assigned to the SHSB), in order to preserve them for the future. The SHSB archivist identified approximately 567 videocassettes to be digitized, for a total of approximately 918 hours of recordings.

PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives aims to improve accessibility and storage conditions for an archival collection of approximately 300 framed works. This selection consists of small- to large-format photographs, documents, maps and paintings on canvas dating to the early mid-20th century, and chronicles important community events from Port Coquitlam’s past, including the history of one of British Columbia’s oldest May Day celebrations.
The project will include inventorying and digitizing all framed works, providing both staff and the general public with internal and online database access to the archival images and related information, and ensuring the collection’s long-term digital preservation.

The Zoryan Institute will transcribe and translate 43 audiovisual oral history interview recordings from its Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection into English. Conducted from 1983 to 1990, these interviews offer firsthand insights into the migration and resettlement experiences of Canada’s Armenian Genocide survivors. Their stories reflect diverse experiences of migration to, and resettlement in, Canada, and are influenced by when the survivors migrated, the factors that drove their migration, and the country from which they migrated. Included in these recordings are 4 testimonies from “Georgetown Boys,” who were part of a group of 100 Armenian orphans who settled in an orphanage–farming school in Georgetown, Ontario, in 1923-1924.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park (WHP), a non-profit organization and proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site, plans to catalogue, digitize and preserve the visual material collection that began with the first archeological digs, in the early 1980s, and spans to the present day. The collection comprises various media formats, including approximately 1,000 35mm slides, 1,000 photographs, 50 VHS tapes, and 30 posters. The funding will contribute in two main ways. First, it will serve to catalogue and digitize the visual material collection, along with the accompanying metadata, and add it to the WHP's established database. Second, it will make it possible to acquire the infrastructure, equipment, and tools needed to adequately care for the collection in order to ensure continued access, proper use, and preservation.

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.

This project will implement Phase 2 of the Gananoque Archive Collections Project. Phase 1 was initiated in 2021 with the support of LAC. It focused on making a minimum of 50% of the Town of Gananoque’s archival collection accessible and improving the preservation standards for the collection. Following the successful implementation of Phase 1, Phase 2 will continue the process of opening up the community’s extensive documentary heritage for research, exhibitions, programming, and online opportunities. Phase 2 will concentrate on parts of the collection that are not digitized and require preventative conservation actions to meet professional archival standards. These parts of the collection are still largely inaccessible to the public as a result of outdated and incomplete documentation and lack of digitization. They are at risk of further degradation and potential loss. This project will digitize, preserve and document the remaining two-dimensional (2-D) items, multi-page documents, and the oversized record book collection.