The Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) grants for 41 projects in local archival and library communities all across Canada are announced. The range of projects funded is a tribute to diversity. Listed below, alphabetically by province and city are the projects funded.
| Organization | Project name | Funding | Province | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Métis Nation of Alberta | DHCP Application |
$50,000 |
Alberta | Edmonton |
| Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | Women of Change: Celebrating Japanese Canadian Leaders |
$49,965 |
British Columbia | Burnaby |
| Adams Lake Indian Band – Title and Rights Archives | ALIB Archives Inventory Project 2021–2022 |
$24,895 |
British Columbia | Chase |
| Cortes Island Museum & Archives SocietyFootnote2 | Unlocking the Archives |
$1,340 |
British Columbia | Mansons Landing |
| Upper Nicola Band | Digitization and Migration of Upper Nicola Band Cultural Heritage Collection |
$44,148 |
British Columbia | Merritt |
| Satellite Video Exchange Society | 40 Years of Media Art at the Satellite Video Exchange Society |
$24,160 |
British Columbia | Vancouver |
| Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance | Filemaker Pro Migration, Cataloguing and Access Project |
$16,150 |
British Columbia | Vancouver |
| Visible Art Society (dba grunt gallery) | Transfer, Transcribe, Transcend: Toward an Accessible Online Video Collection |
$24,714 |
British Columbia | Vancouver |
| Western FrontFootnote2 | 50 years of Western Front: Transfer, Access and Preservation of Performance Art Archives |
$49,980 |
British Columbia | Vancouver |
| Okanagan Indian Band | Reclaiming Syilx Language and Culture History |
$50,000 |
British Columbia | Vernon |
| Williams Lake First Nation | Williams Lake First Nation: Record, Digitize, and Share Traditional Knowledge and Language |
$22,775 |
British Columbia | Williams Lake |
| Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. | Learning From Our Relatives |
$49,972 |
Manitoba | Winnipeg |
| Société historique de Saint-Boniface | Digitizing Videos: Phase 1 – Miscellaneous Collections from the Société historique de Saint-Boniface |
$27,494 |
Manitoba | Winnipeg |
| Winnipeg Architecture Foundation | Architecture Foundation Archives, Phase 2 |
$42,000 |
Manitoba | Winnipeg |
| Joint Secretariat | Illaiqpik – Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository |
$35,405 |
Northwest Territories | Inuvik |
| Avon River Heritage Society | Preserving and Sharing Avon River Area’s Documentary History |
$24,374 |
Nova Scotia | Avondale / Newport Landing |
| Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth | Restoration of Mi’kmaq Language Scripture and Prayer Books |
$2,450 |
Nova Scotia | Halifax |
| Kitikmeot Heritage SocietyFootnote2 | Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities |
$47,973 |
Nunavut | Cambridge Bay |
| Kitikmeot Heritage Society | Tagging Inuit Knowledge: Facilitating Inuit Engagement with Digital Heritage Resources |
$54,307 |
Nunavut | Cambridge Bay |
| Canadian Slovenian Historical Society | CSHS Descriptive Database Project |
$5,053 |
Ontario | Etobicoke |
| Historic 1000 Islands Village Foundation | Gananoque Archive Collection Project |
$43,023 |
Ontario | Gananoque |
| Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation | Digitizing and Preserving Historic Images of Canada: CHPF’s 20th Anniversary Photographic Retrospective of Founding Members |
$22,158 |
Ontario | Mississauga |
| Canadian Council of ArchivesFootnote2 | Archival Monetary Appraisal Forum |
$50,000 |
Ontario | Ottawa |
| Living History Algoma | Shingwauk and Beyond: Survivor and Intergenerational Memories |
$45,000 |
Ontario | Sault Ste. Marie |
| Inuit Art FoundationFootnote2 | Digitizing Inuit Artistic Heritage |
$50,000 |
Ontario | Toronto |
| Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre | Mitigating Risk: Preserving Magnetic Tape at the OJA |
$48,900 |
Ontario | Toronto |
| The Canadian Lesbian and Gay ArchivesFootnote2 | The ArQuives Processing Project: Part 4 |
$49,900 |
Ontario | Toronto |
| Société d’histoire de Drummond (SHD)Footnote2 | Les écrits de notre mémoire Project: Digitization of the Newspapers La Parole and The Spokesman (1926–1970) |
$22,566 |
Quebec | Drummondville |
| Brome County Historical SocietyFootnote1 | Preservation Project: Textual Records of Brome County (1790–1914) |
$34 501 |
Quebec | Knowlton |
| Centre d’archives régional des ÎlesFootnote1 | Les Îles connectées au continent Project: Processing for the Purposes of Providing Access to and Preserving Audiovisual Archives |
$60,000 |
Quebec | L’Étang-du-Nord |
| Musée des ondes Emile Berliner | Compo, Herbert S. Berliner and The History of Canadian Music and Radio Broadcasting |
$49,964 |
Quebec | Montréal |
| McCord Stewart MuseumFootnote2 | Alexander Henderson Exposition |
$35,904 |
Quebec | Montréal |
| Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural InstituteFootnote1 | Investing in Eeyou Istchee Archival Heritage |
$60 000 |
Quebec | Oujé-Bougoumou |
| Monastère des Augustines: Lieu de mémoire habité | Inventorying to Provide Access to an Extraordinary Heritage: The Audiovisual Heritage of Canada’s Augustinian Sisters |
$44,016 |
Quebec | Québec |
| Société historique du SaguenayFootnote2 | Web Accessibility and Improved Conservation of the Société historique du Saguenay’s Collection (P002) |
$50,000 |
Quebec | Saguenay |
| Musée régional de RimouskiFootnote2 | Digitization of the Rita Chevron Photographic Collection #2 |
$8,190 |
Quebec | Rimouski |
| ExporailFootnote2 | Preservation, Description and Digital Access to the Photo Albums of Joseph W. Heckman |
$36,532 |
Quebec | Saint-Constant |
| Exporail | Final Processing of the William Cornelius Van Horne Series from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Fonds |
$23,493 |
Quebec | Saint-Constant |
| Mouillepied Historical Society | Processing and Conservation of the Archives of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 68 in Saint Lambert |
$19,339 |
Quebec | Saint-Lambert |
| Société historique de la SaskatchewanFootnote2 | Digitization of the L’Eau Vive Collection, 1971-1998 |
$43,249 |
Saskatchewan | Regina |
| Council of Yukon First Nations | CYFN Archives Access Project |
$51,993 |
Yukon | Whitehorse |
Footnotes
Note 1
Multi-year projects starting in 2019/2020
Note 2
Multi-year projects starting in 2020/2021