Funding Resources

Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP)

On November 6, 2018, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) hosted a seminar dedicated to the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP): The Past Becomes the Future: Strengthening Communities Through Documentary Heritage. The following presentations were given by funding recipients, LAC subject matter advisors to DHCP, and representatives of other Government of Canada funding programs. 

• Projects Supported Through Small DHCP Contributions
• Projects Supported Through Large DHCP Contributions
• Challenges and Opportunities for Local Documentary Heritage Projects: Perspectives of Subject Matter Experts 
• Other Documentary Heritage Funding Programs 

Projects Supported Through Small DHCP Contributions

• Rosemary Eaton: Digitization Project, Cole Harbour Farm Museum
• Archives Association of British Columbia & the Documentary Heritage Community Program: A Partnership of Success 
• Increasing Access to the Archives at the Dundas Museum and Archives 
• Project: Access to Private-Archives Holdings and Collections of the Société d'histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal

Projects Supported Through Large DHCP Contributions

• Mahone Bay Museum: 2017-2018 Archival Project
• Development of an archival foundation and practices at Société historique de la Saskatchewan
• Preserving Nunavik's documentary heritage: digitizing and describing two pivotal fonds for Nunavimmiut 
• Collections Manager, Windows into Nikkei History

Challenges and Opportunities for Local Documentary Heritage Projects: Perspectives of Subject Matter Experts 

• The Dos and Don'ts of Submitting a Funding Application
• Some useful tools in preparing a DHCP application
• Audio and Moving Image Preservation

Other Documentary Heritage Funding Programs 

• Advancing Knowledge for Canada's Future: Enabling Excellence, Building Partnerships, Connecting Research to Canadians 
• PCH Heritage Programs: Strengthening Communities through Documentary Heritage
• The Virtual Museum of Canada Investment Program
• Aboriginal Peoples' Program at Canadian Heritage