Current recipients

Documentary heritage organizations that have received funding for the 2025-2026 cycle of the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) are listed by region in the table below.

For projects that have received funding in previous years, please see the funding history on the Past funding recipients page.

Table of recipients by region

Atlantic provinces
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Charlotte County Archives Inc. Preserving and Digitizing Scrapbooks of Southwest New Brunswick $26,073 2025–2026 1 year St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Colchester Historical Society Increasing access to the Colchester Historeum's school records, part II $32,862 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Truro, Nova Scotia
Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre Creating accessibility to Mi’kmaw Elders’ collections via MDCC's digital portal and exhibitions $50,000 2025–2026 1 year Millbrook, Nova Scotia

Quebec
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Eastern Townships Resource Centre Oral histories of the English-speaking Eastern Townships of Quebec $49,334 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Sherbrooke, Quebec
Appartenance Mauricie Société d'histoire régionale Digitization and dissemination of the photographic archives of the Le Nouvelliste fonds $50,000 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Shawinigan, Quebec
McCord Stewart Museum Montréal street photography $24,629 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Montreal, Quebec
Société historique du Saguenay From glass to digital: Preserving and sharing the Joseph-Eudore Lemay fonds 2024–2025 $49,983 2025–2026 1 year Saguenay, Quebec
Société d'histoire de Drummond The legacy of André Camirand: Archives and achievements of a visionary architect at the heart of Quebec $50,000 2025–2026 2 years Drummondville, Quebec
ARCMTL Development of the online catalogue and digital asset management platform of the Centre for Documentation for Haitian, Caribbean and Afro-Canadian Information $50,000 2025–2026 2 years Montreal, Quebec
The Super Boat People collective Preserving and sharing the oral history of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese communities in Quebec $33,558 2025–2026 1 year Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Jewish Archives Database migration and enhancements $22,770 2025–2026 1 year Montreal, Quebec
CUTV (Community University Television) Digitization and Dissemination of CUTV’s Physical Video Archives 1969–1999 $49,193 2025–2026 1 year Montreal, Quebec

Ontario
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Hazara Heritage Our Stories, Our Voices: Hazara Narratives in Canada $23,917 2025–2026 1 year Toronto, Ontario
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami On-site Archival Storage for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami $38,939 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Ottawa, Ontario
Cable Public Affairs Channel Democracy in Action: Expanding CPAC's Online Video Archive of Federal Election Campaigns $49,991 2025–2026 2 years Ottawa, Ontario
Grenville County Historical Society Grenville County Newspaper Digitization Project $48,933 2025–2026 1 year Prescott, Ontario
The ArQuives: Canada's Queer Archives Making Canadian LGBTQ2+ Digital Collections Accessible to Community $49,988 2025–2026 2 years Toronto, Ontario
Canadian National Exhibition Foundation Preserving the Legacy of the Canadian National Exhibition: Digitizing Archival Images from the Alexandra Studio Collection 1981-1983 $48,459 2025–2026 2 years Toronto, Ontario

Prairie provinces
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Prud'homme Multicultural Providence Museum Prud'homme archives project 2025 $24,884 2025–2026 1 year Prud'homme, Saskatchewan
Société historique de la Saskatchewan Preservation and promotion of Fransaskois audiovisual cultural heritage (AVFransaskois) $49,995 2025–2026 1 year Regina, Saskatchewan
Willmore Wilderness Preservation and Historical Foundation Voices of the Mountains $49,763 2025–2026 1 year Grande Cache, Alberta
Cold Lake First Nations Lue Chok Tue Archives: Increasing Awareness of and Access to Cold Lake First Nations Documentary Heritage $33,272 2025–2026 2 years Cold Lake, Alberta
Chipewyan Prairie First Nation Bringing our People Home: Video Project to Document Elders’ Stories and Traditional Teachings $45,352 2025–2026 1 year Chard, Alberta

British Columbia
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Kaatza Historical Society Digital Access to Forest Worker History $28,874 Footnote * 2024–2025 2 years Lake Cowichan, British Columbia
Salish Sea Indigenous Guardians Association Salish Sea Indigenous Guardians Association: Recording and Preserving the Voices of our Elders $31,876 2025–2026 1 year Burnaby, British Columbia
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre From LTO 7 to LTO 10: Transfer and Migration of VHEC Holocaust Testimonies and Collection Materials for Long-Term Digital Preservation $40,465 2025-2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia
BC Forest Discovery Centre Map and Large-format Document Scanning Project $24,999 2025–2026 1 year Duncan, British Columbia
Satellite Video Exchange Society Preserving 1970s Community Cable Activism And Programming $16,391 2025–2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia
Archives Association of British Columbia Expanded Training and Support for Emerging Indigenous Archive Programs $33,378 2025–2026 2 years Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Haida Gwaii Museum Creating Community Access to Haida Cultural Heritage Collections $42,494 2025–2026 1 year Skidegate, British Columbia
Wongs' Benevolent Association Digitizing records of Vancouver’s Wongs’ Benevolent Association to preserve Chinese Canadian documentary heritage $24,245 2025–2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia
The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia Diversifying the Okanagan’s Past and Future: An Oral History Workshop Series $24,967 2025–2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia
Fernie and District Historical Society Under the Coal Dust: CNPCC Archives Preservation and Access Project $19,091 2025–2026 1 year Fernie, British Columbia
BC Metis Federation BC Metis Research Support Project $50,000 2025–2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia
Western Front Hank Bull fonds: Transfer, access and preservation of an artist's archive $23,660 2025–2026 1 year Vancouver, British Columbia

Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon
Organization Project title Funding Fiscal year project started Project duration City/Province
Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) CYFN Arrangement, Description and Access 2025–26 $60,000 2025–2026 1 year Whitehorse, Yukon
Kitikmeot Heritage Society The Inuinnait Cultural Cloud $52,665 2025–2026 1 year Cambridge Bay, Nunavut