Grants and Contributions

This project aims to preserve and increase access to a series of more than 400 audio recordings of poems on 219 microcassettes, created for the Dial-A-Poem Montreal project (1986-1989). Based on its New York predecessor, Dial-A-Poem Montreal offered members of the public the opportunity to telephone a hotline and hear a poem read aloud by its author. The system consisted of a series of answering machines that used now-obsolete and highly vulnerable microcassette magnetic tape format. The series also includes recordings of comments left by listeners, recordings made at special events related to the project, and a small number of textual and graphical records.

The Mahone Bay Foundation Society aims to digitize, preserve, and increase access to approximately 125 cm of selected documents and 486 original photographs (including 71 glass negatives and 40 tintypes) from their collection of unprocessed and inadequately stored archival materials relating to the town of Mahone Bay's general history, shipbuilding history, and local families history. In total, this includes 5 new archival collections and 2 accruals to existing collections.

In this project, the Rossland Historical Museum Association will rehouse and digitize the organization’s extensive map collection, including mine tunnel layouts, town site plans, building plans, ski run maps, and more. The majority of the collection is currently rolled and stored in cardboard boxes (not acid-free), or rolled with rubber bands and stored in cubbies, or standing in rolled storage, all of which are not suitable for preservation. The organization will digitize the maps to ensure long-term preservation and access for staff, researchers and the public. To complete this project, the organization will hire an archivist to train staff and volunteers to carry out the work. The training will be offered in the form of two workshops, which will be open to interested members of the public.

The project aims to make accessible, via a Web Portal, texts and photos on the history and cadastre of 190 heritage sites in the greater Orleans region collected in a directory in place since 2016. In addition to developing a Web Portal, the project also aims to increase the preservation of documentary heritage by digitizing and downloading 300 other photos or historical documents such as wills and videos of interviews with Orleans elders from families or organizations.

The Société historique du Saguenay wants to import the digital finding aids of the archival holdings previously processed in its ARCHI-LOG archival management software. The project therefore consists of importing a large amount of data into ARCHI-LOG, but also validating and adjusting the description of the documents to comply with the Rules for the Description of Archival Documents and the requirements of the software specialized in archival management. Methods for preserving analogue and digital documents will also be validated and corrected if they do not meet archival standards.

Thee Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants aims to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

Connect Grants provide financial support for the Canadian research community to undertake activities that will help make Canada a country of discoverers and innovators for the benefit of all Canadians. These activities must advance NSERC’s Research Partnerships and/or one or more of the goals outlined in NSERC’s 2020 Strategic Plan.

Thee Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants aims to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

Thee Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants aims to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide fu

VMI is a bulk raw materials exporter that ship materials primarily indigenous to NL. This project is intended to provide financial assistance to help VMI expand its reach into markets that currently undeveloped or under served.