KITIKMEOT HERITAGE SOCIETY: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Cambridge Bay, NU · in the contract register · grants and contributions register · Nunavut

KITIKMEOT HERITAGE SOCIETY: federal grants and contributions: 51 agreements; $6.2M value; 10 departments; 24 programs.

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51agreements
$6.2Mvalue
10departments
24programs

Largest agreements

2223-HQ-000096$1.1Mvalue2022start2023end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Nunamiutuqaq - Building From the Land$766Kvalue2021start2023end

Construct a Cultural Workspace within its planned multifunction, energy efficient building. The proposed workshop space will offer culturally-anchored services and resources not otherwise available in the community, which encourage and strengthen local peoples’ economic and educational pursuit of traditional practices and ways of life.

Hilap Aulaaniit Qanuq Atayut (The World and its Connections)$403Kvalue2021start2024end

Hilap Aulaaniit Qanuq Atayut (The World and its Connections) is an Inuit-driven approach to environmental knowledge production that combines the resources, expertise, and passion of four Inuinnaqtun speaking communities—Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, Gjoa Haven and Uluhaktok—to build and apply an environmental lexicon for the Inuinnaqtun language. This project will coalesce Inuinnaqtun’s remaining linguistic experts to document detailed Inuinnait knowledge of the natural world, while addressing the reality that Inuinnaqtun—the foundation of Inuinnait culture—has fewer than 600 fluent speakers remai

Nunamiutuqaq (Building from the Land)$321Kvalue2022start2024end

This project will consider the challenges of developing long-term, sustainable infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic that draws from traditional knowledge and uses experimental materials and technologies.

Kuugalak Cultural Campus$240Kvalue2023start2025end

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Agreement$230Kvalue2010start–end
1819-HQ-000144$184Kvalue2018start2023end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Agreement$183Kvalue2013start–end
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Inuinnait Building Capacity to Diversify Revenue, Establish and Manage an Integrated Fund Development Program$169Kvalue2019start2022end

This 36 month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: strategic planning and organizational financial health.

Inuinnaqtun$163Kvalue2025start2027end

Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage

Agreement$155Kvalue2017start–end
Revitalizing Inuinnaqtun Through One-on-One Immersion$153Kvalue2020start2021end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
Embedding Wellness and Healing in Inuinnaqtun Revitalization Activities$147Kvalue2022start2023end

Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program

Agreement$118Kvalue2008start–end
Le Fonds pour la réouverture des organismes du patrimoine / Reopening Fund for Heritage Organizations$100Kvalue2021start2022end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Overcoming Internal Discrimination to Heal Through Languages Revitalization$100Kvalue2022start2024end

Multiculturalism Program

Arnaqarvik$99.6Kvalue2020start2021end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Kuugalak Embodied Carbon Analysis$99.0Kvalue2023start2024end

The project is mostly related to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through the demonstration of technologies to reduce fossil fuel use for heat and/or power generation in Canada's remote communities and/or remote industrial sites.

Defining the Inuit Museum: Aligning museum policies, practices and licensing with Inuinnait culture and tradition in the Canadian territory of Nunavut$95.9Kvalue2021start2023end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Completing a Language Planning Process for Inuinnaqtun in Cambridge Bay$87.4Kvalue2021start2022end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

Agreement$82.4Kvalue2012start–end
Fonds d’urgence relatif à la COVID-19 / COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund$81.6Kvalue2020start2021end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Agreement$70.9Kvalue2006start–end
Uqarluta Inuinnaqtun - Ulukhaktok Mentor-Apprentice Pilot Project$70.5Kvalue2019start2020end

Aboriginal Peoples' Program

Agreement$69.4Kvalue2017start–end
Agreement$69.2Kvalue2011start–end
1920-NR-000522$61.0Kvalue2019start2026end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Agreement$60.0Kvalue2012start–end
Tagging Inuit Knowledge: Facilitating Inuit Engagement with Digital Heritage Resources$54.3Kvalue2021start2022end

Tagging Inuit Knowledge seeks to facilitate Inuit knowledge sharing about a vast collection of digitized media owned by Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society (PI/KHS) through its digital content portal called the Inuit Knowledge Bank. The Knowledge Bank is a custom developed content management and mobilization platform designed to facilitate Inuit access to, and engagement with, their digital heritage. This project will develop and implement digital tagging functionality that will allow Inuit users to contribute metadata to existing document records to assist with their id

The Inuinnait Cultural Cloud$52.7Kvalue2025start2026end

Our project will see the development of a new cloud based storage solution for roughly 8 TB of cultural records to address risks of aging servers, insecure data warehousing, data security gaps, and PI/KHS not benefiting from emerging technology. Working with Ampere (formerly known as Pinnguaq Association), the team will review the current data scope, and technology options; develop project workflows, design elements, and user Experience; execute the migration of data and the Web Application, with demonstrations & testing; and create easy-use portals for content upload and curation.

Agreement$49.9Kvalue2009start–end
Agreement$49.1Kvalue2007start–end
Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities$48.0Kvalue2020start2022end

The Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society will digitize 1,000 35-mm slides that capture unseen moments in the lives of people, past and present, in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Laserich Collection offers insight into life in remote Inuit communities. These images span decades and capture everyday lives, people and places. No other collection offers this volume of information and such a broad context of life in the North. It will enhance Canadian understanding of northern communities and help them to preserve and share their documentary heritage. The organization will shar

Agreement$46.4Kvalue2014start–end
1819-HQ-000144$45.1Kvalue2018start2019end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Science Communication at Kuugalaaq$40.0Kvalue2026start2027end

This project will make the findings from the Kuugalaaq Cultural Campus research in Cambridge Bay more accessible to the community by transforming climate, energy, and environmental data into engaging, Inuinnaqtun-forward communication tools, including infographics, cultural designs, and interactive digital content. By embedding NFC technology throughout the campus, community members will be able to access information about sustainable infrastructure, climate adaptation, and environmental stewardship simply by tapping their phones on site features. The project will enhance community understandi

1920-HQ-000082$36.2Kvalue2019start2020end

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Agreement$32.2Kvalue2017start–end
Preserving Inuinnait Oral Traditions: Interviewing for Documentation and Capacity Building$28.9Kvalue2019start2020end

This project focuses on the needs of Inuinnait—a distinct regional group of Inuit living in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq/Kitikmeot Heritage Society will record Inuinnait oral documentary heritage from a diminishing group of knowledge holders. The Society recognizes that the tangible memories and the knowledge, values, beliefs, and practices held by these Elders is the foundation of the Inuinnait culture. This unique knowledge will soon be gone, and with it, a significant proportion of Inuinnait culture and heritage will disappear entirely. This project will docum

Engaging in Building Community Wellness$25.0Kvalue2020start2022end

The objectives of the Program are: .• promoting volunteerism among seniors; .• engaging seniors in the community through.mentoring of others; .• expanding awareness of elder abuse, including.financial abuse; .• supporting social participation and inclusion of.seniors; and .• providing capital assistance for new and existing.community projects and/or programs for seniors. .

Departments

Canadian Heritage27agreements$2.6Mvalue11programs
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Indigenous Heritage
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
  • Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Access to Heritage

All grants from Canadian Heritage

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada2agreements$1.2Mvalue2programs
Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency1agreements$766Kvalue1programs
Polar Knowledge Canada3agreements$448Kvalue2programs
  • Polar Knowledge Application Program
  • Grants to Support Research and Activities Relating to The Polar Regions

All grants from Polar Knowledge Canada

Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities1agreements$321Kvalue1programs
Indigenous Services Canada3agreements$281Kvalue3programs
  • CIRNAC - Northern Affairs
  • Education
  • Social Development

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

Library and Archives Canada5agreements$209Kvalue2programs
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
  • Listen, Hear Our Voices

All grants from Library and Archives Canada

Employment and Social Development Canada7agreements$171Kvalue1programs
Women and Gender Equality Canada1agreements$169Kvalue1programs
  • Department for Women and Gender Equality

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

Natural Resources Canada1agreements$99.0Kvalue1programs
  • Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities Program - Demonstration Component

All grants from Natural Resources Canada

Years

20262agreements$65.0Kvalue2programs
  • Grants to Support Research and Activities Relating to The Polar Regions
  • New Horizons for Seniors Program
20254agreements$245Kvalue4programs
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
  • New Horizons for Seniors Program
  • Grants to Support Research and Activities Relating to The Polar Regions
20234agreements$389Kvalue4programs
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities Program - Demonstration Component
  • New Horizons for Seniors Program
  • Listen, Hear Our Voices
20225agreements$1.7Mvalue5programs
  • Treaties and Aboriginal Government
  • Research and Knowledge Initiative
  • Indigenous Languages & Cultures Program
  • Multiculturalism Program
  • New Horizons for Seniors Program
20218agreements$1.5Mvalue8programs
  • Canada Community Revitalization Fund
  • Polar Knowledge Application Program
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Access to Heritage
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Indigenous Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
20206agreements$428Kvalue5programs
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Indigenous Heritage
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
  • New Horizons for Seniors Program
20196agreements$376Kvalue6programs
  • Department for Women and Gender Equality
  • Aboriginal Peoples' Program
  • Education
  • Social Development
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
20182agreements$229Kvalue2programs
  • CIRNAC - Northern Affairs
  • Education
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20173agreements$256Kvalue0programs
    20161agreements$6.0Kvalue0programs
      20141agreements$46.4Kvalue0programs
        20131agreements$183Kvalue0programs
          20122agreements$142Kvalue0programs
            20111agreements$69.2Kvalue0programs
              20101agreements$230Kvalue0programs
                20091agreements$49.9Kvalue0programs
                  20081agreements$118Kvalue0programs
                    20071agreements$49.1Kvalue0programs
                      20061agreements$70.9Kvalue0programs

                        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.