Grants and Contributions

In 2023 the Fernie and District Historical Society was given control over the local archives of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company and its many subsidiaries. These archives, previously inaccessible to the public and stored in the basement of Fernie City Hall , include over 700 maps of Elk Valley townsites, underground mines and railways, as well as over 20 m of documents including land transfers, lease agreements, correspondence, and CNPCC employment and injury records. The Society's objective is to transfer, clean, and rehouse these documents in our archival storage space, and digitize them for addition to our online database.

Through its DHCP project, the Canadian National Exhibition Foundation (CNEF) aims to digitize and preserve 14,000 at-risk photographic negatives from the rich archival collection of the Canadian National Exhibition.

The purpose of the AVFransaskois project is to provide access to a rich audiovisual heritage, which is essential to the history and educational and identity development of Francophones in Saskatchewan. The collection, which was digitized from various obsolete formats, includes 14 archival fonds, including those from Fransaskois organizations such as the dance troupe La Ribambelle, and eight individual fonds such as those of historian Laurier Gareau, researchers Louis Julé and Pierre-Yves Mocquais, or folklorist Henri Poulin.

The BC Métis Research Support Project (MRSP) will use the DHCP funding over one year to support the efforts of community-based researchers to preserve and represent their local history. The project aims to enhance existing training and experience of 4 community Métis researchers by developing research skills, repatriating local Métis history and memory, fostering a Pacific Northwest research community, and strengthening knowledge partnerships with Library and Archives Canada, Abbotsford Heritage Society, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver.

This project will digitize CUTV’s legacy archives from 1969-1999 from several different obsolete tape formats into a readily accessible digital archive. CUTV will organize and publish newly digitized audio-video media into an online platform with improved descriptions and categorization. The project will digitally preserve historic CUTV videos for access by the community of CUTV and Montreal.

Through the project, Western Front aims to digitize, preserve and provide access to the entirety of the newly acquired Hank Bull fonds. The fonds comprises of 117 ¾” U-matic, Hi-8, VHS, and Mini DV video tapes, and 153 ¼” open reel, compact cassette, and DAT audio tapes documenting the Canadian artist Hank Bull’s significant contribution to the history of radio and telecommunication art in Canada and internationally.

Our Stories, Our Voices: Hazara Naratives in Canada is a preliminary oral history project to document the modern history and settlement of the Hazara people in Canada, an ethnic community of Afghanistan that suffered a brutal genocide in the late nineteenth century and continues to experience persecution and discrimination due to their ethnic and religious identity in Afghanistan.

The Chipewyan Prairie First Nation (CPFN) aims to preserve and share its cultural heritage by documenting the oral histories of Elders. The project’s objective is to record traditional teachings, land use practices, hunting, gathering, and cultural knowledge while documenting observed changes to the environment caused by local industry. The project also seeks to equip youth with employable skills through media training, fostering intergenerational connections and strengthening community bonds.

A broadband project that will extend or enhance household access to high-speed Internet connectivity to 115 Underserved Households, in the regions northwest and southwest of the town of Wingham, Ontario, using fibre technologies.

A broadband project that will extend or enhance household access to high-speed Internet connectivity to 109 Underserved Households, in the regions northeast and southeast of Wingham, Ontario, using fibre technologies.