Past funding recipients

Find information about past projects we funded. Connecting with past recipients may also help you plan your next funding application.

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Map of past recipients

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The Google map is a geographic representation of all projects funded by the DHCP since its inauguration in 2015.. Each type of project is represented on the map by colour-coded pins: Digitization (black pin), collection management (orange pin), audio/visual content management (purple pin), online platform development (red pin), exhibition planning, development and delivery (yellow pin), database management (pink pin), archives management (light blue pin), preservation (forest green pin), curation (green pin), web development (blue pin) and Oral history (olive green pin).

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Funding history

Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration 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 2020-2021 1 year project Alberta Banff
Christ Church, Elbow Park Christ Church: Archives, Oral History and Social Activism $ 24,544 2020-2021 1 year project Alberta Calgary
Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Alexis History Project $ 24,980 2020-2021 1 year project Alberta Glenevis
South Peace Regional Archives Renaming the Past, Reclaiming Their Stories: Indigenous Records $ 8,976 2020-2021 1 year project Alberta Grande Prairie
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society Unlocking the Archives $ 21,841 2020-2021 2-year project British Columbia Mansons Landing
Archives Association of British Columbia Indigenous and Community Capacity Building: Archives Regional Training and Development Clinics $ 17,829 2020-2021 1 year project British Columbia Port Coquitlam
Western Front 50 Years of Western Front: Transfer, Access and Preservation of Performance Art Archives $146,248 2020-2021 3-year project British Columbia Vancouver 
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia Jewish Independent—40 Years of Community Newspapers $ 11,678 2020-2021 1 year project British Columbia Vancouver
Syilx Language House Association Syilx Language House Documentation Project $ 50,000 2020-2021 1 year project 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 2020-2021 1 year project 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 2020-2021 1 year project Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's
Joint Secretariat Iliuqpik Project—Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository $ 58,800 2020-2021 1 year project Northwest Territories Inuvik
Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia Three County Geographical Genealogy (GeoGen) Mapping Project $ 24,964 2020-2021 1 year project Nova Scotia Dartmouth
Council of Nova Scotia Archives MemoryNS Promotion $ 48,897 2020-2021 1 year project Nova Scotia Halifax
Kitikmeot Heritage Society Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities $93,461 2020-2021 2-year project Nunavut Cambridge Bay
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation The Baker Lake Tapes: Cataloguing/Digitizing/Description Archival Project $ 38,747 2020-2021 1 year project Nunavut Iqaluit
Fashion History Museum 1985–90 Festival of Canadian Fashion Image Archives $ 18,158 2020-2021 1 year project 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 2020-2021 1 year project Ontario Mississauga
Canadian Council of Archives Archival Monetary Appraisal Forum $ 100,000 2020-2021 2-year project Ontario Ottawa
The ArQuives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives The ArQuives Processing Project: Part 4 $ 91,700 2020-2021 2-year project Ontario Toronto
Inuit Art Foundation Digitizing Inuit Artistic Heritage $ 150,000 2020-2021 3-year project Ontario Toronto
Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive Women Unite: Voices from Toronto Feminist Activists, 1970–98 $ 24,990 2020-2021 1 year project Ontario Toronto
Société d'histoire de Drummond (SHD) The Writings of Our Memory: Digitizing the Newspapers La Parole and The Spokesman (1926–70) $ 72,182 2020-2021 2-year project Quebec Drummondville
Centre régional d'archives de l'Outaouais Partial Treatment Project for Documents in the Fonds of Photographer John E. Gleason $ 33,587 2020-2021 1 year project Quebec Gatineau
Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice—Département des archives Digitize and Make Accessible a Collection of Indigenous-Language Manuscripts $ 48,563 2020-2021 1 year project 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 2020-2021 1 year project Quebec Montréal
Canadian Centre for Architecture Arthur Erickson, Melvin Charney, Roger D’Astous and Luc Laporte: Canadian Architectural Fonds Reprocessing Initiative $ 50,000 2020-2021 1 year project 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 2020-2021 1 year project Quebec Montréal
McCord Stewart Museum Alexander Henderson Exposition $ 83,737 2020-2021 2-year project Quebec Montréal
Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines Preserving the Ursulines’ Audiovisual Archives $ 49,540 2020-2021 1 year project Quebec Québec
Musée régional de Rimouski Digitization of the Rita Chevron Photographic Collection #2 $ 52,103 2020-2021 2-year project Quebec Rimouski
Société historique du Saguenay Web Accessibility and Improved Conservation of the Société historique du Saguenay’s Collection (P002) $ 149,703 2020-2021 3-year project Quebec Saguenay
Exporail Preservation, Description, and Digital Access to the Photo Albums of Joseph W. Heckman $ 68,226 2020-2021 2-year project Quebec Saint-Constant
Government House Historical Society Government House Historical Society Archives $ 49,991 2020-2021 1 year project Saskatchewan Regina
Société historique de la Saskatchewan Digitization of L’Eau vive Collection, 1971–98 $ 120,149 2020-2021 3-year project Saskatchewan Regina
Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) CYFN Archives Access Project $ 23,513 2020-2021 1 year project Yukon Whitehorse
Métis Nation of Alberta DHCP Application $ 50,000 2021-2022 1 year project Alberta Edmonton
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Women of Change: Celebrating Japanese Canadian Leaders $ 49,965 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Burnaby
Adams Lake Indian Band - Title and Rights Archives ALIB Archives Inventory Project 2021–2022 $ 24,895 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Chase
Upper Nicola Band Digitization and Migration of Upper Nicola Band Cultural Heritage Collection $ 44,148 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Merritt
Satellite Video Exchange Society 40 Years of Media Art at the Satellite Video Exchange Society $ 24,160 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Vancouver
Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance Filemaker Pro Migration, Cataloguing and Access Project $ 38,710 2021-2022 2 year project British Columbia Vancouver
Visible Art Society (dba grunt gallery) Transfer, Transcribe, Transcend: Toward an Accessible Online Video Collection $ 24,714 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Vancouver
Okanagan Indian Band Reclaiming Syilx Language and Culture History $ 50,000 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Vernon
Williams Lake First Nation Williams Lake First Nation: Record, Digitize, and Share Traditional Knowledge and Language $ 22,775 2021-2022 1 year project British Columbia Williams Lake
Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. Learning From Our Relatives $ 49,972 2021-2022 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Société historique de Saint-Boniface Digitizing Videos: Phase 1 – Miscellaneous Collections from the Société historique de Saint-Boniface $ 27,494 2021-2022 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Architecture Foundation Archives, Phase 2 $ 84,000 2021-2022 2 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Joint Secretariat Illaiqpik - Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository $ 130,459 2021-2022 3 year project Northwest Territories Inuvik
Avon River Heritage Society Preserving and Sharing Avon River Area's Documentary History $ 24,374 2021-2022 1 year project Nova Scotia Avondale / Newport Landing
Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Restoration of Mi'kmaq Language Scripture and Prayer Books $ 2,450 2021-2022 1 year project Nova Scotia Halifax
Kitikmeot Heritage Society Tagging Inuit Knowledge: Facilitating Inuit Engagement with Digital Heritage Resources $ 54,307 2021-2022 1 year project Nunavut Cambridge Bay
Canadian Slovenian Historical Society CSHS Descriptive Database Project $ 5,053 2021-2022 1 year project Ontario Etobicoke
Historic 1000 Islands Village Foundation Gananoque Archive Collection Project $ 43,023 2021-2022 1 year project Ontario Gananoque
Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation Digitizing and Preserving Historic Images of Canada: CHPF's 20th Anniversary Photographic Retrospective of Founding Members $ 22,158 2021-2022 1 year project Ontario Mississauga
Living History Algoma Shingwauk and Beyond: Survivor and Intergenerational Memories $ 45,000 2021-2022 1 year project Ontario Sault Ste. Marie
Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre Mitigating Risk: Preserving Magnetic Tape at the OJA $ 91,521 2021-2022 2 year project Ontario Toronto
Musée des ondes Emile Berliner Compo, Herbert S. Berliner and The History of Canadian Music and Radio Broadcasting $ 49,964 2021-2022 1 year project Quebec Montréal
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 2021-2022 1 year project Quebec Québec
Exporail Final Processing of the William Cornelius Van Horne Series from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Fonds $ 23,493 2021-2022 1 year project Quebec Saint-Constant
Mouillepied Historical Society Processing and Conservation of the Archives of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 68 in Saint Lambert $ 19,339 2021-2022 1 year project Quebec Saint-Lambert
Council of Yukon First Nations CYFN Archives Access Project $ 51,993 2021-2022 1 year project Yukon Whitehorse
Cold Lake First Nations Establishing an Archives Program $ 50,000 2022-2023 1 year project Alberta Cold Lake
Frog Lake Library Building the Archives $ 24,304 2022-2023 1 year project Alberta Frog Lake
Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Alexis Oral Histories Project $ 49,600 2022-2023 2 year project Alberta Glenevis
Stó:lo Library and Archives – part of the Stó:lo Service Agency Society Preserving Indigenous Governance, Rights and Title Records of Stó:lo Nation $ 50,000 2022-2023 1 year project British Columbia Chilliwack
Kaatza Historical Society Facilitating Access to Forest Industry Documentary Heritage $ 31,492 2022-2023 1 year project British Columbia Lake Cowichan
PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives Preservation and Digitization of the PoCo Heritage Framed Collection $ 18,451 2022-2023 1 year project British Columbia Port Coquitlam
Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre Digitizing Rossland History $ 16,782 2022-2023 2 year project British Columbia Rossland
Société historique de Saint-Boniface Video Digitization: Phase 2 – Various Collections of the Société historique de Saint-Boniface $ 24,542 2022-2023 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. Caring for the Digital Collection at MICEC $ 48,600 2022-2023 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Oseredok UCEC Digitization of the Iwan Boberskyj Photograph Collection $ 44,331 2022-2023 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Gwich'in Tribal Council Cataloguing, Collection Management and Archival Planning: Gwich'in Tribal Council Department of Culture and Heritage $ 59,996 2022-2023 1 year project Northwest Territories Inuvik
Annapolis Heritage Society Photo Collection Preservation and Access $ 13,991 2022-2023 1 year project Nova Scotia Annapolis Royal
Colchester Historical Society Increasing Access to the Colchester Historeum's School Records $ 34,052 2022-2023 1 year project Nova Scotia Truro
Middlesex Centre Archives The Society of Friends (Quakers) Marsh Store and Personal Collection: Digitization Project $ 28,500 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Delaware
Historic 1000 Islands Village Foundation Gananoque Archive Collection Project – Phase 2 $ 44,394 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Gananoque
Grand Council Treaty #3 Representative Services Preserving the Oral History of Manito Aki Inakonigaawin $ 20,409 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Kenora
Zoryan Institute Transcription and Translation: Preserving and Sharing the Stories of Canada's Armenian Genocide Survivors $ 38,437 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario North York
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Establishing a Digital Repository for Increasing Access to ITK Records $ 31,733 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Ottawa
Canadian National Exhibition Foundation Preserving the Legacy of the Canadian National Exhibition: Digitizing Photography from the Alexandra Studio Collection 1977–79 $ 39,295 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Toronto
Multicultural History Society of Ontario Improving Archival Management of Newspapers and Newsletters in the MHSO Archives to Increase Access $ 100,000 2022-2023 2 year project Ontario Toronto
The ArQuives: Canada's Queer Archives (formerly Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives) The ArQuives Processing Project pt. 5 $ 48,089 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Toronto
The Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Toronto Conservation of Parish Registers at the Anglican Diocese of Toronto Archives $ 20,310 2022-2023 1 year project Ontario Toronto
Société d'histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean Consolidating, Preserving and Disseminating the Jean le photographe Collection $ 100,000 2022-2023 2 year project Quebec Alma
Société d'histoire de Drummond (SHD) Access to Archives of the Chambre de commerce de Drummondville $ 43,437 2022-2023 1 year project Quebec Drummondville
Centre d'archives régional des Îles Access to the Memory of Newcomers and Habitants: Pioneering Families in Remote Regions $ 60,000 2022-2023 1 year project Quebec L’Étang-du-Nord
Cinémathèque québécoise Restoring and Relaunching the Series Le son des Français d'Amérique $ 50,000 2022-2023 1 year project Quebec Montréal
RADIO CKUT CKUT Time Capsule – Preserving 90s Counterculture: Historical Radio Archives from the Radical Margins of Montreal $ 21,941 2022-2023 1 year project Quebec Montréal
Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice – Département des archives 365 Years of Saint-Sulpice Manuscripts in Indigenous Languages: Digitization and Dissemination $ 50,000 2022-2023 1 year project Quebec Montréal
Association des archivistes du Québec Democratizing Crowdsourcing. Creation of Online Training, Provision of Digital Tools, Accompaniment by Francophone Archival Services $ 95,081 2022-2023 2 year project Quebec Québec
Wanuskewin Heritage Park Authority Digitizing Wanuskewin's Archives $ 34,549 2022-2023 1 year project Saskatchewan Saskatoon
Council of Yukon First Nations CYFN Archives Access Project 2022–23 $ 50,220 2022-2023 1 year project Yukon Whitehorse
Joint Secretariat Illaiqipik - Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository $ 35,405 2021-2022 3 years project Northwest Territories Inuvik
Council of Yukon First Nations Council of Yukon First Nations Arrangement, Description and Access Project 2023-2024 $ 59,889 2023-2024 1 year project Yukon Whitehorse
Pinnguaq Association Historic Pinnguaq Lifecycle Collection $ 17,402 2023-2024 1 year project Nunavut Iqaluit
Société d'histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean Consolidating, preserving and disseminating the Jean le photographe collection $ 50,000 2022-2023 2 years project Quebec Alma
Association des archivistes du Québec Democratizing crowdsourcing. Creation of online training, provision of digital tools, accompaniment by Francophone Archival Services $ 47,218 2022-2023 2 years project Quebec Québec
ARCMTL Montreal Afrodescendant Documentary Heritage Project $ 48,890 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Montreal
Canadian Centre for Architecture Equitable and Inclusive Descriptive Practices: Finding Aid Audit $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Montreal
Exporail Improving accessibility to archives and optimizing archive management $ 47,865 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Saint-Constant
Société historique du Saguenay Processing and digital dissemination of 50 years of Jonquière’s history, as seen by Gil Lemieux, master photographer $ 49,844 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Saguenay
Société d'histoire de Drummond Drummondville through the lens of photographer Henri Desaulniers $ 49,940 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Drummondville
Productions Innu Assi Sharing 10,000 years of history, the Atanukana by Charles-Api Bellefleur $ 41,227 2023-2024 1 year project Quebec Wendake
Brome County Historical Society Preservation of Brome County Pioneers and Developers Archives (1783-1957) $ 49,150 2023-2024 2 years project Quebec Knowlton
Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Alexis Oral Histories Project $ 32,890 2022-2023 2 years project Alberta Glenevis
Cold Lake First Nations Lue Chok Tue Archives: Increasing Awareness of and Access to Cold Lake First Nations Documentary Heritage $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Alberta Cold Lake
Société historique de la Saskatchewan Digitization of the Franco-Saskatchewanian community’s artistic and cultural photographic heritage (NumArt) $ 47,464 2023-2024 2 years project Saskatchewan Regina
Société historique de Saint-Boniface Long live born-digital archives! $ 46,260 2023-2024 1 year project Saskatchewan Saint-Boniface
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Archives Project Phase 3 $ 42,369 2023-2024 1 year project Manitoba Winnipeg
Archives de Bellevue Inc. Development of standards of practice and sound management for the Bellevue archives. $ 14,057 2023-2024 1 year project Saskatchewan St. Isidore de Bellevue
Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Creating an Inventory and Catalog for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Lands and Resources Secretariat $ 47,840 2023-2024 1 year project Saskatchewan Saskatoon
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve Awakening Our Old Stories $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Wikwemikong
Multicultural History Society of Ontario Improving Archival Management of Newspapers and Newsletters in the Multicultural History Society of Ontario Archives to Increase Access $ 50,000 2022-2023 2 years project Ontario Toronto
Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada Describing and Discovery: Creating archival descriptions and an archives management system with a public search interface for Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada Archives $ 49,615 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Ottawa
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada Indigenous Archives Internship $ 24,999 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Peterborough
Canadian International Council Oral History Project of the Chretien Years $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Toronto
The Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Huron Mush Hole Fonds Rework Project $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario London
Red Rock Historical Society Digitizing, Preserving and Providing Access to the History of Red Rock $ 38,479 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Red Rock
Friends of Grain Elevators Inc Voices of the Grain Trade Oral History: Preservation and Increased Access $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Thunder Bay
Museum of Ontario Archaeology Museum of Ontario Archaeology: Associated Records Digitization and Access 2023 $ 39,258 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario London
Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Dance Theatre HCArchives Creation $ 34,975 2023-2024 1 year project Ontario Hamilton
Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre Digitizing Rossland History $ 6,917 2022-2023 2 years project British Columbia Rossland
Stó:lo Library and Archives - part of the Stó:lo Service Agency Society Preserving Indigenous Governance, Rights, and Title Records of Stó:lo Nation - Phase 2 $ 50,000 2023-2024 1 year project British Columbia Chilliwack
Maple Ridge Historical Society Climate-Controlled Storage Upgrade for Sensitive Materials $ 17,863 2023-2024 1 year project British Columbia Maple Ridge
Lakes District Museum Society Lakes District Museum Society Centennial Oral History Project: 100 Interviews for 100 Years $ 24,872 2023-2024 1 year project British Columbia Burns Lake
Archives Association of British Columbia Supporting Archival Capacity in Indigenous Communities and Organizations $ 12,750 2023-2024 1 year project British Columbia Port Coquitlam
Cheam First Nation Cheam Documentary Heritage Collection Project $ 26,266 2023-2024 1 year project British Columbia Rosedale
North Shore Micmac District Council Inc North Shore Micmac District Council's Cultural Identity Preservation Project $ 48,199.00 2023-2024 1 year project New Brunswick Eel Ground
Annapolis Heritage Society Engaging with Heritage through Digital Image Preservation $ 30,709.00 2023-2024 1 year project Nova Scotia Annapolis Royal
Charlotte County Archives Inc. Enhancing Photograph Collection Access and Preservation $ 17,388.00 2023-2024 1 year project New Brunswick St Andrews