Archives, museums and documentary heritage institutions will this year share $1.47 million to carry out 36 projects selected under Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP).
The projects were selected for the significant impact they will have on documentary heritage preservation and access and in the broader community.
Sara Wright, Collections Manager, Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre in Rossland, British Columbia, said, “Without funding from the DHCP, we would not have been able to digitize a large portion of our negative collection, as well as a series of important mine-level maps. With these pieces digitized, we can use them for internal projects and share them with the community.”
Unfortunately, no genealogical organizations received funding, but there are a few projects on the list of recipients that may help family historians with their research.
Since the creation of the DHCP in 2015, LAC has provided $14.97 million in support of 376 documentary heritage community projects.
The next call for proposals to apply for funding will be issued in the fall of 2024.
