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Research
Grants Offered by
the U of M Archives & Special Collections
- The
T. Glendenning Hamilton Research Grant
The Archives & Special Collections of the University of
Manitoba Libraries offers financial support each year for those
scholars and researchers interested in using the Department's
growing number of valuable manuscript and imprint collections.
Supported by the T. Glendenning Hamilton Fund, the program is
directed to graduate students, faculty members, staff, and others
whose research projects call for intensive, on-site use of the
Hamilton or other collections housed in the Archives. A limited
number of of short-term grants of $300.00 to $600.00 are available
for reimbursement of transportation, subsistence, and related
research costs. Tuition payments are not covered by the program.
Hamilton
Grant Application Form
- The
Andrew Taylor Research Grant
Designed especially for those interested in the study of the
Arctic and of Northern Canada.
Please contact the Archives & Special Collections for details.
View Taylor Grant Application
Form (2 pages)
Endowments
Potential
donors may realize substantial tax savings by creating endowment
funds. Such endowments can be used to ensure continued acquisitions
of books and manuscripts in the area of the donor's interest, to
establish on-going lecture series, to facilitate further use of
the collections by researchers and for other valuable purposes.
Collections
currently endowed within the Archives & Special Collections
are as follows:
- The
Frank Allen Family Reseach Fund
To support the acquisition of library materials in the fields
of physics, architecture, home economics, art and design, and
Winnipeg history.
- The
Estey Family Endowment Fund
For the support of his collection and for acquisition of books
and materials pertaining to agricultural history, especially plant
pathology, food science, biology and botany.
- The
FPG (Frederick Philip Grove/Felix Paul Greve) Research Endowment
Fund
To support, expand, and promote the Archives' FPG source and
research collections which include F. P. Grove's Papers, Photograph
Collection, the F. P. Grove Library, nearly all of F. P. Greve's
German translations, and the autobiography of dadaist Baroness
von Freytag-Loringhoven; the research documents of Douglas O.
Spettigue, Margaret Stobie, and Gaby Divay; and numerous related
materials in various formats (theses, video- and audiotapes,
microforms).
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The
Dr. T. Glendenning Hamilton Research Fund
To provide a limited number of travel grants every year to assist
those researchers wanting to use the Hamilton Collection on
parapsychology and psychic phenomena and other collections housed
in the Archives.
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The
J.B. Rudnyckyj Research Fund
For the acquisition of Slavic books, periodicals, selected archival
materials, Ukrainian and Western Canadian documents and other
related materials. In 1994 the annual J.
B. Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture Series was established
and is jointly organized by the UM Archives & Special Collections
and the Dept. of German & Slavic Studies. Video-Recordings
of these popular guest lectures can be requested from the Archives
and transcripts are available online.
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The
Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Archival Fund
For projects enhancing the Thorlakson fonds, as well
as other collections within the Archives, for research use.
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