Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$1,000,000.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
511771
511771
The development of Bineshii Business Park by designing and constructing infrastructure necessary to open up 18 lots and make available for lease.
$67,550.00
May 15, 2020
Contribution as part of the Participant Funding Program to Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the environmental assessment process for the Bending Lake Iron Project.
$25,000.00
May 15, 2020
Contribution as part of the Participant Funding Program to Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the environmental assessment process for the Bending Lake Iron Project.
$5,000.00
May 15, 2020
Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Chipewyan Prairie First Nation to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the impact assessment process for the Suncor Base Mine Extension Project.
$50,723.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
511974
511974
Development and completion of a Food and Economic Security Feasibility Study.
$1,000,000.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
511771
511771
The development of Bineshii Business Park by designing and constructing infrastructure necessary to open up 18 lots and make available for lease.
$24,980.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
Alexis History Project
2021-0068
The Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation will catalogue and digitize video and audio interviews with local knowledge keepers, many of whom have left this world. Archives help to support language revitalization, assertion of land rights, reclamation of aspects of identity, and recovery from attempted genocide. The project team will clarify objectives, receive archival training and implement new skills to catalogue, digitize and process archival materials for future access. The team will include staff, community members and leaders (including members of the Archives Society of Alberta), and invited archivists. The organization will acquire an archives consultant to help build local capacity and develop a plan to establish the organization’s archives.
$50,000.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
Digitizing Inuit Artistic Heritage
2021-0118
This project highlights the contributions and cultural resilience of Inuit artists, and it will enhance public appreciation for their art. Inuit artists face unique and systemic barriers to visibility by the Canadian public. Their art form is poorly understood despite being a key piece of Canada’s national artistic identity.
The Inuit Art Foundation (IAF) archive spans the development of modern Inuit art and represents artists from all media. The archive includes every community within Inuit Nunangat (Inuit regions) and reflects the incredible range of cultural and artistic practices among Inuit artists. This project will increase awareness of and access to a greater proportion of the IAF archive.
$45,488.00
May 15, 2020
Indigenous recipients
Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities
2021-0015
The Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society will digitize 1,000 35-mm slides that capture unseen moments in the lives of people, past and present, in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Laserich Collection offers insight into life in remote Inuit communities. These images span decades and capture everyday lives, people and places.
No other collection offers this volume of information and such a broad context of life in the North. It will enhance Canadian understanding of northern communities and help them to preserve and share their documentary heritage. The organization will share images through its Inuit Knowledge Bank and engage with community Elders to identify the peoples, places and content in the photographs.
$18,000.00
May 15, 2020
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Digitization of Sound Recordings from the Archival Holdings of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface—Phase II
2021-0107
As part of an audio archive preservation and access strategy, the project will digitize sound recordings from several processed archival fonds. A total of 244 recordings (133 cassettes and 111 tapes), totalling 244 hours, will be digitized and their descriptions verified. The project will ensure that metadata are entered. Low-resolution copies will become available online, and the preserved versions will be stored in a reliable digital repository: the ArchivesCanada Digital Preservation Service (ACDPS).