Pandemic Isolating: What I’m doing with the ‘Reesa’ my time

Jessica MacLean, the conservator at Aanischaaukamikw, shares some information about how we keep our collections safe and free from insect damage. On a bright spring day in April 2020, 1120 km from Ouje-Bougoumou amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself sitting at my kitchen table in Toronto doing watercolour sketches. The subject of which are …

My Life as a Digitization Technician in Eeyou Istchee

Kory at work doing digitization As a digitization technician at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institution, my primary task is essentially to preserve material from the archives and convert each original file into a digital file. VHS tapes that need to be digitised From a profusion of textual documentation to old school playable video and audio formats, …

My internship in the Collections

My internship in the Collections department at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, 2018 By: Camille Crevier-Lalonde My work as an intern as part of my course in applied museology at Montmorency College often consist of solving problems to support and display objects that may have specific requirements or restrictions. Making a mount is always about the …

Days 10-14 of the Heritage Preservation Project!

After steady travel for a week and a half, meeting many wonderful people and cultural-heritage groups, we decided to come home to Ouje-Bougoumou for a little rest.  We will visit community members and Band Office/Culture Department staff in Ouje-Bougoumou soon. In Wemindji we began our visit with a stop at the Cultural Centre and met Cultural Coordinator …