DiscoveryGarden Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Charlottetown|Charlottetown, PE · grants and contributions register · Charlottetown

DiscoveryGarden Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 15 agreements; $2.4M value; 3 departments; 10 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-1M96BUH0JN · Cite as: Assay Systems, “DiscoveryGarden Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/discoverygarden-inc/

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15agreements
$2.4Mvalue
3departments
10programs

Largest agreements

227113$675Kvalue2025start2026end

Support investments in the company's product evolution and development.

Building an Open-Core Product Model$500Kvalue2026start2027end

Build a “new home” for the Islandora community members that have basic open repository requirements, limited technical resources and limited budgets. Almost every current implementation of Islandora in existence would be on a separate codebase and hosted on a different infrastructure. Therefore, this initiative needs to be flexible to accommodate many different use cases, object types and code bases in a cost-effective manner.

200682$290Kvalue2012start2013end

The creation of automated migration tools to an open source platform

198097$245Kvalue2010start2016end

Build new software as service company

216697$190Kvalue2020start2021end

Provide assistance to mitigate impacts of Covid-19

217918$100Kvalue2021start2021end

Engage expertise in the area of digital adoption

Streamlining Data Integration from Fedora (FOXML) to Drupal PostgreSQL$93.0Kvalue2024start2025end

Develop a standardized, repeatable, and automated process for converting Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) objects in FOXML (Fedora Object XML) format to a Drupal-compatible PostgreSQL database format. This initiative seeks to significantly reduce the manual effort currently involved in data translation and integration, thereby enhancing efficiency, reliability, and accessibility of digital repositories for Islandora.

Build Platform Search Capability For Open-SaaS System.$88.4Kvalue2025start2026end

Creating a new home to showcase institutional repositories and digital collections, and making it easy to search and view objects. This initiative seeks to significantly improve users' ability to search, view, and access the digital collections' content available on the Collection Discovery Services site and aims to solve issues related to high-latency options currently available.

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217897$50.0Kvalue2021start2022end

Hire a Business Development Manager

226105$50.0Kvalue2024start2025end

Support the hiring of an Operations Manager and Fractional CFO

199234$35.0Kvalue2011start2012end

To engage an experienced senior executive

198418$32.6Kvalue2011start2012end

Hire Director of Business Development

IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy Engagement$32.5Kvalue2025start2026end

The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the firm.

DiscoveryGarden Inc.-2025-2026-1035823$26.0Kvalue2025start2026end

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Discovery Garden Inc.$2.8Kvalue2018start2018end

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Departments

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency9agreements$1.7Mvalue6programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Business Development Program
  • REGI - Digital Acceleration Pilot
  • BDP - Productivity and Business Skills
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)

All grants from Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

National Research Council Canada5agreements$740Kvalue3programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • CanExport SME

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Employment and Social Development Canada1agreements$2.8Kvalue1programs

Years

20261agreements$500Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20254agreements$822Kvalue3programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • CanExport SME
20242agreements$143Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • REGI - Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI)
20212agreements$150Kvalue2programs
  • REGI - Digital Acceleration Pilot
  • REGI - Productivity and Business Skills
20201agreements$190Kvalue1programs
  • REGI - Business Scale-up and Productivity
20181agreements$2.8Kvalue1programs
  • Youth - Canada Summer Jobs
20121agreements$290Kvalue1programs
  • Business Development Program
20112agreements$67.6Kvalue1programs
  • BDP - Productivity and Business Skills
20101agreements$245Kvalue1programs
  • Business Development Program

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.