For your information. A message from the CCA (Canadian Council of
Archives). Please see below my signature.
Iona McCraith, Archives Advisor
Archives Association of Ontario
Phone: 705-277-1309; Mobile: 705-772-1309
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Subject: [Arcan-l] CCA letter to Minister Moore regarding the National
Archival Development Program
Colleagues - For your information, the text of the letter the Canadian
Council of Archives sent to Minister Moore on June 13th , requesting
reinstatement of the National Archival Development Program. Attached to the
letter was the 7000+ signatories to the "Make it Better, Write a Letter:
Save the NADP" petition, which was started by Heather Home of Queen's
University Archives - thank you Heather.
CCA asks all concerned individuals to write the Minister, asking for the
reinstatement of the NADP.
Please provide copies of any communications to CCA Executive Director
Christina Nichols
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Thank you,
Lara
Lara Wilson
Chair - Canadian Council of Archives
Tel: (250) 472-4480
Fax: (250 472-5808
CCA toll free number: 1-866-254-1403
http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca
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Honourable James Moore
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Dear Minister Moore:
Re: National Archival Development Program
I am writing as Chairperson of the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA)
regarding your recent comments concerning the National Archival Development
Program (NADP). On behalf of Canada's 13 provincial and territorial
archives councils, the more than 800 archival institutions in this country
and the 7,041 individuals who signed a petition asking for the NADP program
to be reinstated (attached), we thank you for speaking about a possible
reinstatement of this vital program. We hope that the next Librarian and
Archivist of Canada will be open to this discussion. However, with every
week of delay in reinstating the NADP, archival material in communities
remains inaccessible and at risk.
In light of the June 11 funding announcement for new programs to support
Canada's history, we ask that this excellent initiative be complimented with
a swiftly revived NADP grants and contributions program, which will
ultimately help those Canadians accessing the History Fund and other
Heritage initiatives. For these new programs to achieve their maximum
impact, access to archival documentation is essential. We cannot celebrate
and study our past if Canada's historical documents are not available to the
target audience of your funding announcement.
As I mentioned to you in my letter of May 10 of last year, CCA's management
of the NADP, as well as the program itself, was positively audited by Audit
Services Canada in June 2010. At the time of the NADP's cancellation by
Daniel Caron on April 30th, 2012, 90 projects had been approved by the CCA
peer-review adjudication process. Recognizing your newest efforts to promote
Canadian history, the opportunity is available to move rapidly so that the
archival community can support your goals. CCA would be pleased to work with
our colleagues from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to make this happen.
With past financial assistance programs from Canadian Heritage and LAC, the
archival community has always done its part, normally exceeding the 50%
match required for a federal contribution. Canada's archival community has
never shied away from meeting its responsibilities and doing the work needed
to preserve our documentary heritage, but our capacities are finite.
Reinstatement of the National Archival Development Program will benefit all
Canadians - now and for generations to come.
Sincerely
Lara Wilson
Chair, Canadian Council of Archives
130 Albert Street, Suite 1201 Ottawa ON K1P 5G4
Tel: (613) 565-1222 Fax: (613) 565-5445
Note: Paper copy of petition to follow via courier
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