Friends of Grain Elevators Inc.

Published purpose

Friends of Grain Elevators (FOGE) requests funding to ensure its Voices of the Grain Trade oral history collection is preserved and fully available to the public by spring 2024. The activities of this project include transcribing 144 audio files, creating archival documentation for all new and existing interview transcripts (metadata description, interview summaries, and keywords), and uploading audio files to FOGE’s website. For long-term preservation, FOGE will work with Lakehead University’s archives to store the collection, ensuring Voices will be discoverable and usable for future generations. The more than 200 narrators within the collection tell the story of how Thunder Bay once became the world’s largest grain port, as well as the modern changes that saw the industry’s decline.