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.
$24,980.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
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.
$50,000.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
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.
$45,488.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
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.
$50,000.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
Syilx Language House Documentation Project
2021-0027
The Syilx Language House Association serves the Syilx Nation in training newly fluent speakers and recording Elders in the critically endangered Nsyilxcn language. For five years, the organization has successfully recorded Elders speaking in the Nsyilxcn language, and it has shared these recordings on its website and in print at schools and libraries.
The current project involves training two community members to record, interview, collect and archive several hours of spoken language. This collection will include narrative, cultural information and traditional stories in the Nsyilxcn language. The project will improve upon current archival processes, to include digital backup for long-term preservation.
$47,973.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
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.
$50,000.00
May 15, 2020
Aboriginal recipient
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.
$755,933.00
May 15, 2020
Academia
Secure self-landing for unmanned aircraft systems (SSL-UAS - Drone Use Case)
969414
As the use of drones as part of Canada’s transportation logistics system increases, more research is necessary to provide evidence-based conclusions to support the ongoing and future development of technical and operations guidelines, standards and regulations. As a result, this Project interlaces three different disciplines (vision, machine learning and cyber security) to achieve the overall goal of creating a new generation of autonomous drones that can safely land indoors or outdoors if problems arise with their navigational and sensory systems, whether due to accident, technical failure, or attack. In addition, the Project aims to provide these drones with important safety features such as automated object/human in-motion avoidance capabilities that support the objectives of regulations that are either currently in effect, or are being drafted for this purpose.
$20,000.00
May 15, 2020
For-profit organization
Non-Destructive Measurement of Compressive Strength of Concrete Masonry
949087
Developing products & technology for non-destructive testing of concrete compressive strength.
$738,625.00
May 15, 2020
For-profit organization
Development of yeast-RNA interference complexes as biocontrol and biotherapeutic agents
949141
Renaissance BioScience has developed a patent-pending, bioactive molecule production and delivery platform.