Grants and Contributions

This contribution supports the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation in the development of an Indigenous Guardians program in Rouge National Urban Park.

This contribution supports the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Akwesasne Rights and Research Office to hire a Cultural Coordinator/ researcher to host an Akwesasne History Symposium delivering culturally enriching programs. This project will bring together knowledge keepers, educators, and experts to share rich histories and stories, ensuring community members are educated about their history.

This contribution enables the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources to support ecological and biocultural connectivity between the Kluskap Indigenous Protected and Conservation Areas, Bras d’Or Biosphere Regions, and Cape Breton Highlands National Park through development of a Biological Corridor Stewardship Plan, monitoring activities, and biocultural data.

This contribution supports Nuchatlaht First Nation to engage in co-developing a feasibility assessment for considering a proposed National Marine Conservation Area Reserve in their marine territory.

This contribution supports the programming of W̱SÁNEĆ-based organization PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ , promoting food sovereignty in the W̱SÁNEĆ community by restoring sites, propagating native species, and fostering connections between the W̱SÁNEĆ people and their homelands.

This grant supports Drew Atkins an Indigenous artist with Kwantlen First Nation who designed, built, and installed the Spirit Square and Salmon Walk at Fort Langley National Historic Site. Drew Atkins is the original artist and Indigenous community member who built this space, and it is customary for the original artist to do restoration, repair, and enhancement work to their original pieces. This grant will also support building capacity for Kwantlen’s community knowledge through working with and teaching his family, who are Kwantlen youth, about his work as a carver and passing down these traditional skills.

Deliver the Export Navigator program in BC to increase SME exports

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative

This Project is to develop practical methods related to the application of OpenBIM to facilitate the creation of a BIM- based model to be used to validate and verify the life cycle cost and environmental impacts modeling and to map the bill-of-work data with relevant inventory datasets at the different stages of building projects’ life cycle and to generate robust life cycle costs and analysis (LCC/LCCA) results to be used for sustainability purposes. This Project’s output will be important to establish the NRC OpenBIM-LCA-LCC web application and performance of benchmarks’ guideline, methodology and proof of concept for the bill of works and their associated costs for Canadian building archetypes. Developing the model will provide a method for statistical- derived benchmarks as an approach that maximizes flexibility, applicability, transparency, and robustness to ensure claims’ validation to superior LCA and LCC performance over business-as-usual design, construction, use, and end-of-life practices.

Field peas represent a staple food protein crop for human nutrition with high global demand. The quality of the protein found in peas is defined by the balance of indispensable (essential) amino acids that comprise the main storage proteins, as well as the overall digestibility of the protein. Many factors are known to impact the protein quality of peas, both positively and negatively, including varietal differences, environmental factors, and processing conditions. Of relevance to the current project are key environmental factors during plant growth, including precipitation, temperature, and ambient atmospheric CO2 concentrations. These factors are of increasing importance in the face of climate change. The primary objective of the project therefore to study the impact of controlled changes in temperature, moisture and CO2 concentrations during the growing cycle of a select modern and commercially relevant pea cultivar, with particular emphasis on protein quality attributes, including amino acid composition, digestibility and select anti-nutritive factors.