Funding Sources
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada - Residential Schools Missing Children - Community Support Funding
- Support is intended to develop and implement community-led initiatives to locate, document, and memorialize undocumented burial sites and graves associated with Indian Residential Schools and to honour families’ wishes to identify and repatriate the children’s remains.
- Any Indigenous community can apply for funding, regardless of if they are coordinating investigative efforts.
Indigenous Services Canada - Addressing Former Residential School Buildings and Sites on Reserves
- Funding is available to support activities related to Indian Residential Schools, including:
- Community engagement;
- Site clean-up and remediation;
- Building demolition; and
- Building replacement or renovation.
Canadian Heritage - Legacy Fund – Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage
- Funding provides support to eligible organizations for community-initiated capital projects that:
- Commemorate a significant local historical event or pay tribute to a significant local historical personality;
- Mark a 100th anniversary or greater, in increments of 25 years (e.g., 125th, 150th);
- Involve the restoration, renovation, or transformation of existing buildings or exterior spaces with local community significance that are intended for community use; or
- Encourage arts and heritage activities in the local community that are intended for and accessible to the general public.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants
- This funding is not specific to research on Indian Residential Schools, however, some community researchers have had success with securing this funding for their investigations.
- This funding is provided to scholars for research primarily in the social sciences and humanities. The intended outcome of such research must be to add to our understanding and knowledge of individuals, groups and societies – what we think, how we live, and how we interact with each other and the world around us.