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Previous Recipients

Among previous and on-going grants are the following.

  • Banff High School, Banff
    Annual awards for creative writing (short story and poetry) offered to senior high school students, on the theme of Bow Valley history.

  • Banff Senior's Society
    Contribution towards the publication of "We Live in a Postcard", the Banff Family History Book

  • British Columbia Maritime Museum, Victoria
    Support for exhibition marking the centenary of the voyage of the Tilikum
    in 1901.

  • Buffalo Nations Cultural Society
    Support the work of the Buffalo Nations Museum, Banff

  • Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
    Grant to enable participation of First Nations representatives in the international conference “Protecting the World’s Mountain Corridors and Peace Parks” in September 2004.

  • East Kootenay Environmental Society
    Contribution to further protection of the David Thompson Heritage Lands.

  • Karsten Heuer, Banff
    Contribution to “Being Caribou”, an epic journey following the caribou migration in Canada’s North.

  • Kootenay (Ktunaxa)
    In partnership with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, support for a planning workshop for land use in the Ktunaxa traditional territory

  • McDougall Stoney Mission Society
    - Support for a new foundation for the historic McDougall Methodist Mission church, erected in 1875 near Morley on Highway 1A west of Calgary.
    - Support for restoration and landscaping of the grounds surrounding the historic McDougall Mission Church

  • Mt. Logan Expedition, Calgary
    Support to develop a website and other communications materials covering the 2003 climb of Mt. Logan.

  • Open Sky Creative Society
    Nah a Dehe project, an artist's trip, book, film and exhibits on the values to protect the South Nahanni watershed

  • Parks Foundation Calgary on behalf of the Calgary Zoological Society
    Support for the research and writing of the history of the Calgary Zoological Society

  • Charlie and Ann Russell, Banff
    Funds to enable development of a bear-retardant electrical fence system for campers.

  • Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
    Lead gift for creation of an endowed award for Aboriginal student education in the name of the late Deanna Cardinal

  • United Church of Canada Historical Society
    Support for project “Interpreting the Mission Past.”

  • University of Alberta, Edmonton
    Annual scholarships for graduate students in the Faculty of History and Classics for work in the field of Western Canadian history.

  • University of Calgary, Calgary
    Annual scholarships for graduate students in the Faculty of History for work in the field of Western Canadian history.

 

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