Library and Archives Canada Announces Recipients of 2020-21 Documentary Heritage Communities Program
May 15, 2021
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) this week announced the recipients of the latest round of projects funded under Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP).
In total, 41 projects (including 26 new projects) will be supported by the $1.5 million fund.
| 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 Society | 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 Front | 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 Society | 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 Archives | 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 Foundation | 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 Archives | The ArQuives Processing Project: Part 4 | $49,900 | Ontario | Toronto |
| Société d'histoire de Drummond (SHD) | Les écrits de notre mémoire Project: Digitization of the Newspapers La Parole and The Spokesman (1926–1970) | $22,566 | Quebec | Drummondville |
| Brome County Historical Society | Preservation Project: Textual Records of Brome County (1790–1914) | $34 501 | Quebec | Knowlton |
| Centre d'archives régional des Îles | 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 Museum | Alexander Henderson Exposition | $35,904 | Quebec | Montréal |
| Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute | 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 Saguenay | Web Accessibility and Improved Conservation of the Société historique du Saguenay’s Collection (P002) | $50,000 | Quebec | Saguenay |
| Musée régional de Rimouski | Digitization of the Rita Chevron Photographic Collection #2 | $8,190 | Quebec | Rimouski |
| Exporail | 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 Saskatchewanes | 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 |
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