Funding history 2020-2021

In 2020–21, the Documentary Heritage Communities Program is providing $1.5 million in funding to 40 projects delivered by local organizations with archival components from across Canada. Recipients include archives, private libraries, indigenous organizations and more.

The projects are listed alphabetically, sorted by province and then by city.

Organization

Project title

Funding

Province

City

The Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Stories in the Mountains: Processing, Preserving, and Digitizing the Fonds of Select Alpine Club of Canada Members for Access

$50,000

Alberta

Banff

Christ Church, Elbow Park

Christ Church: Archives, Oral History and Social Activism

$24,544

Alberta

Calgary

Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation

Alexis History Project

$24,980

Alberta

Glenevis

South Peace Regional Archives

Renaming the Past, Reclaiming Their Stories: Indigenous Records

$8,976

Alberta

Grande Prairie

Cortes Island Museum & Archives SocietyFootnote 2

Unlocking the Archives

$20,501

British Columbia

Mansons Landing

Archives Association of British Columbia

Indigenous and Community Capacity Building: Archives Regional Training and Development Clinics

$17,829

British Columbia

Port Coquitlam

Western FrontFootnote 2

50 Years of Western Front: Transfer, Access and Preservation of Performance Art Archives

$49,368

British Columbia

Vancouver 

Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia

Jewish Independent—40 Years of Community Newspapers

$11,678

British Columbia

Vancouver

Syilx Language House Association

Syilx Language House Documentation Project

$50,000

British Columbia

Westbank

La Société historique de Saint-Boniface

Digitization of Sound Recordings from the Archival Holdings of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface—Phase II

$18,000

Manitoba

Saint-Boniface

History of Disability Rights Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

Preserving the Disability Rights Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador through Oral Histories of Disability Activists

$31,700

Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's

Joint Secretariat

Iliuqpik Project—Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository

$58,800

Northwest Territories

Inuvik

Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia

Three County Geographical Genealogy (GeoGen) Mapping Project

$24,964

Nova Scotia

Dartmouth

Council of Nova Scotia Archives

MemoryNS Promotion

$48,897

Nova Scotia

Halifax

Kitikmeot Heritage SocietyFootnote 2

Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities

$45,488

Nunavut

Cambridge Bay

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation

The Baker Lake Tapes: Cataloguing/Digitizing/Description Archival Project

$38,747

Nunavut

Iqaluit

Fashion History Museum

1985–90 Festival of Canadian Fashion Image Archives

$18,158

Ontario

Cambridge

Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation

Through the Lens of George Hunter: Digitizing and Preserving Photographic Images of Quebec and the East Coast, 1940–90

$23,755

Ontario

Mississauga

Canadian Council of ArchivesFootnote 2

Archival Monetary Appraisal Forum

$50,000

Ontario

Ottawa

The ArQuives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ ArchivesFootnote 2

The ArQuives Processing Project: Part 4

$41,800

Ontario

Toronto

Inuit Art FoundationFootnote 2

Digitizing Inuit Artistic Heritage

$50,000

Ontario

Toronto

Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive

Women Unite: Voices from Toronto Feminist Activists, 1970–98

$24,990

Ontario

Toronto

Société d'histoire de Drummond (SHD)Footnote 2

The Writings of Our Memory: Digitizing the Newspapers La Parole and The Spokesman (1926–70)

$49,616

Quebec

Drummondville

Centre régional d'archives de l'Outaouais

Partial Treatment Project for Documents in the Fonds of Photographer John E. Gleason

$33,587

Quebec

Gatineau

Les Amis des Jardins de MétisFootnote 1

Elsie as Seen by... Her Husband, Robert Wilson Reford

$27,595

Quebec

Grand-Métis

Brome County Historical SocietyFootnote 1

Preservation Project: Textual Records of Brome County (1790–1914)

$34,206

Quebec

Knowlton

Centre d'archives régional des ÎlesFootnote 1

The Islands Connected to the Mainland: Processing for Access to and Preservation of Audiovisual Archives

$59,601

Quebec

L'Étang-du-Nord

Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice—Département des archives

Digitize and Make Accessible a Collection of Indigenous-Language Manuscripts

$48,563

Quebec

Montréal

CAIJ (Centre d'accès à l'information juridique)

Clean, Restore and Virtually Exhibit the CAIJ’s Collection of Old and Rare Books

$50,000

Quebec

Montréal

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Arthur Erickson, Melvin Charney, Roger D’Astous and Luc Laporte: Canadian Architectural Fonds Reprocessing Initiative

$50,000

Quebec

Montréal

Société d'histoire et de généalogie du Plateau-Mont-Royal

The History of Mile-End and Protecting the Heritage of Plateau-Mont-Royal: Citizen Archives

$11,560

Quebec

Montréal

McCord Stewart MuseumFootnote 2

Alexander Henderson Exposition

$47,833

Quebec

Montréal

Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural InstituteFootnote 1

Investing in Eeyou Istchee Archival Heritage

$60,000

Quebec

Oujé-Bougoumou

Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines

Preserving the Ursulines’ Audiovisual Archives

$49,540

Quebec

Québec

Musée régional de RimouskiFootnote 2

Digitization of the Rita Chevron Photographic Collection #2

$43,913

Quebec

Rimouski

Société historique du SaguenayFootnote 2

Web Accessibility and Improved Conservation of the Société historique du Saguenay’s Collection (P002)

$49,703

Quebec

Saguenay

ExporailFootnote 2

Preservation, Description, and Digital Access to the Photo Albums of Joseph W. Heckman

$31,694

Quebec

Saint-Constant

Government House Historical Society

Government House Historical Society Archives

$49,991

Saskatchewan

Regina

Société historique de la SaskatchewanFootnote 2

Digitization of L’Eau vive Collection, 1971–98

$46,255

Saskatchewan

Regina

Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN)

CYFN Archives Access Project

$23,513

Yukon

Whitehorse

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