MI'KMAWEY DEBERT CULTURAL CENTRE: federal grants and contributions

Updated 11 October 2026 · Millbrook | Millbrook, NS · grants and contributions register · Cumberland–Colchester

MI'KMAWEY DEBERT CULTURAL CENTRE: federal grants and contributions: 26 agreements; $14.0M value; 5 departments; 14 programs.

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26agreements
$14.0Mvalue
5departments
14programs

Largest agreements

Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$9.0Mvalue2024start2029end

A new cultural center in Debert, NS, will be built to be net-zero carbon. It will offer community and public education for on and off-reserve schools, provide healing spaces for survivors and descendants, and contribute to robust public visitor experiences for more than 60,000 people annually.

Exhibition Tender and Specialized Curation Equipment for the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$1.5Mvalue2024start2027end

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Architectural Design at the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$1.2Mvalue2020start2022end

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Architectural Design at the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$402Kvalue2020start2022end

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Home to Mi'kma'ki II: Stabilizing Mi'kmaw Collections at the National Museum of the American Indian$200Kvalue2023start2025end

Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage

Home to Mi'kma'ki: The Conservation Assessment Phase$196Kvalue2021start2023end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Reconciling Mi'kmaw Language at the MDCC$183Kvalue2022start2024end

Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage

Launching the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre Digital Portal$160Kvalue2023start2024end

Museums Assistance Program (MAP) - Digital Access to Heritage

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Engaging users to strengthen collections access and organization at the MDCC$126Kvalue2020start2021end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Agreement$119Kvalue2012start–end
Growing Mi'kmaw Cultural Vocabularies$112Kvalue2018start2019end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Planning for Belongings at the MDCC$109Kvalue2026start2028end

Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage

Content Development and Specifications for Weji-pkwatuek A'tukwaqnminal ("in the process of earning our stories to tell")$100Kvalue2024start2026end

Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage

Pre-Implementation for the MDCC Digital Portal$84.7Kvalue2021start2022end

Museums Assistance Program

Teaching People, Gathering Resources: Strengthening Mi'kmaw Language Use and Visibility$75.2Kvalue2020start2021end

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

  • Canadian Heritage
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
Developing Practice-Centred Curation at the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$67.3Kvalue2021start2023end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Shubenacadie Commemoration Project$59.8Kvalue2022start2023end

This contribution supports the final phase of development of a Commemorative Art Piece, part of overall approach of remembrance and healing within shared public spaces, that will be linked to the Former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School National Historic Site of Canada. A project coordinator will be hired to complete the Schematic Design Process, to engage Indigenous Artists and to host Regional Gatherings with collective Groups of Survivors across the Maritimes to inform design.

Fonds d’urgence relatif à la COVID-19 / COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund$59.6Kvalue2020start2021end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Le Fonds pour la réouverture des organismes du patrimoine / Reopening Fund for Heritage Organizations$59.6Kvalue2021start2022end

Museum Assistance Program (MAP)

Creating accessibility to Mi’kmaw Elders’ collections via MDCC's digital portal and exhibitions$50.0Kvalue2025start2026end

This project will preserve, protect, and make accessible, archival collections through Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre’s online digital portal and future exhibition galleries. This access-based management project will make collections publicly available while increasing the organization’s digital preservation capacity.

Le Fonds pour la relance des organismes du patrimoine / Recovery Fund for Heritage Organizations$47.6Kvalue2022start2023end

Museums Assistance Program - Recovery Fund

222712$46.2Kvalue2023start2024end

Update the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre business plan

A Gathering for Remembrance and Healing$38.5Kvalue2020start2021end

Celebration, Commemoration and Learning

Commemoration of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School$25.0Kvalue2024start2024end

This contribution will provide the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre with the capacity and the resources to continue their work consulting with Survivors on the future commemoration of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, declared a National Historic Site in 2020.

Survivor Stories from the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School$25.0Kvalue2025start2025end

This grant supports the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre with ongoing capacity and resources to consult with Survivors of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School about commemorations, research, and public displays on the residential school story in the Centre as it opens over the next couple of years.

Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre Travel to Smithsonian for Curatorial Work on Mi’kmaw Artifacts$5.0Kvalue2025start2025end

This grant supports the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre (MDCC) and its curatorial team with resources to continue their work on Mi’kmaw artifacts at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. These ancestral materials are in the process of being repatriated to Nova Scotia, where they will be cared for and displayed to the public at the MDCC as it opens over the next couple of years.

Departments

Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities1agreements$9.0Mvalue1programs
  • Green and Inclusive Community Buildings Program

All grants from Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities

Canadian Heritage19agreements$4.8Mvalue10programs
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Indigenous Heritage
  • Museums Assistance Program (MAP) - Digital Access to Heritage

All grants from Canadian Heritage

Parks Canada4agreements$115Kvalue1programs
  • General Class Grants and Contributions Program

All grants from Parks Canada

Library and Archives Canada1agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program

All grants from Library and Archives Canada

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency1agreements$46.2Kvalue1programs

Years

20261agreements$109Kvalue1programs
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
20253agreements$80.0Kvalue2programs
  • Documentary Heritage Communities Program
  • General Class Grants and Contributions Program
20244agreements$10.6Mvalue4programs
  • Green and Inclusive Community Buildings Program
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • General Class Grants and Contributions Program
20233agreements$406Kvalue3programs
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • Museums Assistance Program (MAP) - Digital Access to Heritage
  • ICF - Strategic Community Capacity
20223agreements$291Kvalue3programs
  • Museums Assistance Program - Indigenous Heritage
  • General Class Grants and Contributions Program
  • Museums Assistance Program - Recovery Fund
20214agreements$408Kvalue3programs
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP) - Indigenous Heritage
  • Museums Assistance Program
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
20206agreements$1.9Mvalue5programs
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund - Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
  • Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures
  • Celebration, Commemoration and Learning
20181agreements$112Kvalue1programs
  • Museum Assistance Program (MAP)
20121agreements$119Kvalue0programs

    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.