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A Busy Grant Year for Grande Prairie Regional Archives
Mary Nutting, Grande Prairie Regional Archives
2003-2004 was a very busy grant year for Grande Prairie Regional Archives. We were approved for a Control of Holdings grants, conservation grants and digitization grants to do some much needed projects.
The year started with a second run ANA/CAIN grant for digitization. An e-commerce student from the Grande Prairie Regional College digitized some early publications and uploaded them onto our web-site. They included a federal government immigration report on the Peace River Country, a provincial guide showing the development of our area in relationship to Edmonton, a Board of Trade publication about the town of Grande Prairie, and booklets on towns in our area which never developed. |
 | A summer student carried on the digitization craze by scanning and uploading most of our photographs onto Alberta InSight. A link from the home page of our web-site, http://www.southpeacearchives.org, leads researchers to the ASA web-site. As a fairly new, small community archives, the ASA databases are a real boon for us, and we love to search, examine in detail and print photographs with their descriptions right off the web-site. Having the .tifs saved on CDs, we simply create a .jpg and send it to London Drugs to be made into a print or a poster-whatever the customer chooses-and have it back in a few days. |
The next project was a Control of Holdings one. We arranged and described the "Kinsmen Club of Grande Prairie" fonds. This group started during World War II with collecting "Milk for Britain" funds but continued on supporting community recreation projects. They built our first swimming pool and first indoor skating arena with volunteer labour, and still exist today.
With a new facility being built, we also received two grants from CPCAR through the Canadian Council of Archives. One grant allowed us to purchase a hygrothermograph to monitor our stacks and a psychrometer to re-calibrate it when necessary. With the second grant we wrote an Emergency Preparedness Plan for both the museum and the archives.
In total, we received $11,945 in grants during 2003-04. Archives Society of Alberta, we couldn't exist without you!
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