Library and Archives Canada announced yesterday it will provide $1.5 million in funding to 40 projects led by archives, libraries, and heritage institutions across Canada, — and most, if not all, of these projects will benefit the genealogy community.
The announcement of the recipients of this second cycle of the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) was made at the annual meeting of the Association des archivistes du Québec held in Quebec City from June 13 to 15.
Three organizations each received almost $100,000
McCord Museum in Montreal received the largest grant, $99,892, for its project, 75,000 Pages of History, closely followed by the $99, 776 grant given to the Canadian Council Archives for ARCHIVESCANADA Digital Preservation Service, and a $99,573 grant for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario in Toronto to Increase Access to Irreplaceable Records of Our Histories of Migration and Ethnicity.
The DHCP was created in 2015 to provide financial assistance for activities that augment the visibility of and access to materials held by Canada’s local documentary heritage institutions. The DHCP provides contributions to eligible applicants across Canada for a variety of projects that will also allow citizens to access and engage with their nation’s history.
Funded projects from the Atlantic provinces are:
- A Strategic Plan for St Peter’s Cathedral Archives (The Rector, Wardens and Vestry of St. Peter’s Cathedral), Charlottetown, P.E.I.;
- Council of Nova Scotia Archives and Council of Archives New Brunswick Copyright Workshop (Council of Archives New Brunswick and Council of Nova Scotia Archives), Fredericton, NB;
- Shipbuilding and Community History Project (Mahone Bay Founders’ Society / Mahone Bay Museum), Halifax, NS.
Funded projects from Quebec are:
- Celanese: A Last Salvage (Société d’histoire de Drummond), Drummondville;
- Fonds and Collection Description and Management of Archival Services on Servers and Management Software (Centre d’archives régional des Iles), Iles-de-la-Madeleine;
- Preservation by Technological Transfer and Promotion of the Multimedia Document Collection of the Lanaudière Archives (Corporation du centre régional d’archives de Lanaudière), L’Assomption;
- 75,000 Pages of History (McCord Museum), Montreal;
- Di Folks Archiv / People’s Archive (Jewish Public Library Archives), Montreal;
- Statistical portrait of Quebec Archival Centres and Services – Phase 2 (Réseau des archives du Québec), Montreal;
- Creating a Professional Development Program – Phase 2 (Association des archivistes du Québec), Quebec;
- The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec Transactions: The Intellectual Heritage of Quebec’s English-Speaking Community (Literary and Historical Society of Quebec), Quebec;
- Archives and Heritage: A Vast Laboratory (Musée régional de Rimouski), Rimouski;
- A Living Past: Promoting and Preserving the Archival Legacy of Yvette Séguin-Thériault and the Families of Ripon (Comité du patrimoine de Ripon), Ripon.
Funded projects from Ontario are:
- Increasing Access to Archives (Dundas Historical Society), Dundas;
- Digitization of Photographic Collections (Jewish Federation of Ottawa – Ottawa Jewish Archives), Ottawa;
- National Archive Description Bulk Import/Export Capability Development (Canadian Council of Archives), Ottawa;
- ARCHIVESCANADA Digital Preservation Service (Canadian Council of Archives)
Canadiana Software Development (Canadiana.org), Ottawa; - Digitization and Training Project (Brant County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society), Paris;
- Advancing Archeion Phase ll: Community Capacity-building through Onsite Support (Archives Association of Ontario), Toronto;
- Reel Heritage 2.0 (Toronto International Film Festival), Toronto;
- Increasing Access to Irreplaceable Records of Our Histories of Migration and Ethnicity (Multicultural History Society of Ontario), Toronto;
- New Collection Digitization and Virtual Exhibit Project (Connexions Archive & Library), Toronto.
Funded projects from Northern and Western Canada are:
- Geraldine and Douglas Moodie Collection (Glenbow-Alberta Institute (Glenbow Museum), Calgary, AB;
- Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta Archival Collections Accessibility Project (Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta), Calgary, AB;
- Alberta Audio-Visual Preservation and Access Policy (Archives Society of Alberta), Edmonton, AB;
- Media Digitization and Description: Heiltsuk Traditional Use Studies Audio, Community Photographs (Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre), Bella Bella, BC;
- Windows into Nikkei History (Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre and Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Toronto), Burnaby, BC;
- Archive Back-log Completion Project (Oliver and District Heritage Society), Oliver, BC;
- Digital Preservation Capacity Building in British Columbia (Archives Association of British Colombia), Port Coquitlam, BC;
- Community Archives Regional Training and Development Clinics (Archives Association of British Columbia), Port Coquitlam, BC;
- Collections Accessibility Project – Stage 2 (Bulkley Valley Historical and Museum Society), Smithers, BC;
- Opening Our Collection: Upgrading Our Archival Database (Terrace and District Museum Society), Terrace, BC;
- Temple Sholom Fonds Digitization Project (Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia), Vancouver, BC;
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Processing and Access Project (Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance), Vancouver, BC;
- Building Archival Foundations – Phase Two (Vancouver Police Historical Society), Vancouver, BC;
- Digitization of Slides of Inuit Art from George Swinton Archives (Winnipeg Art Gallery), Winnipeg, MB;
- Digitizing the Union Nationale Saint-Joseph du Manitoba Fonds (La société historique de Saint-Boniface), Winnipeg, MB;
- Building Archival Foundation and Practices (Société historique de la Saskatchewan), Regina, SK;
- Box of Daylight (Knowledge) (Teslin Tlingit Council), Teslin, YT.
The list of projects and funding is available here.
Organizations such as archives, privately funded libraries, historical societies, genealogical organizations and societies, museums with an archival component and relevant professional associations are eligible to apply for funding under the DHCP.
The deadline to apply for the next funding cycle (2017-2018) is January 27, 2017.
