Grants and Contributions

The Voices of the Mountains project aims to preserve and increase access to this heritage through digitization. This project safeguards Willmore Wilderness Park’s cultural and ecological legacy for future generations to explore and cherish.

This project is to extend the Cold Lake First Nations' (CLFN) Lue Chok Tue Archives Program ("the Program") which centralizes, preserves, and provides access to records and cultural properties, regardless of media or format, that are of enduring value to understanding the history, culture and community of the Denesuline people of Lue Chok Tue.

In this project, the Charlotte County Archives will describe, digitize, share, and enhance preservation for dozens of scrapbooks in its collection. These scrapbooks, dating from the 1870s to 1990s and mostly created by women, offer unique individual perspectives on everyday life, events, and experiences from the vantage point of rural and small town residents of southwestern New Brunswick.

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 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.

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.