Funds Awarded — Movable Cultural Property Grants

A list of the Movable Cultural Property Grants that were awarded towards the purchase of cultural property follows below:

Grants Awarded in 2009 - 2010

Canadian Museum of Civilization – a pair of Chilkat Style Leggings, ca. 1860 (repatriation) $25,000.00

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre – Book 1 (sketchbook containing 17 drawings), ca. 1962-1969, by Jessie Oonark (repatriation) $19,000.00

McCord Museum of Canadian History – Dress, wool, 1887, by Montreal ladies’ tailor J.J. Milloy (repatriation) $5,497.50

Natural Resources Canada (National Meteorite Collection) – 17 Buzzard Coulee Meteorite Specimens (export appeal) $10,621.54

New Brunswick Museum – Portrait of Reverend Hezekiah Harris, watercolour, ca. 1867, by Anthony Flower (repatriation) $1,900.00

Royal Ontario Museum – Centrepiece, ca. 1867-1870, bronze and marble, by Pierre-Louis-Émile Froment-Meurice (export appeal) $33,000.00

Royal Ontario Museum – Springwater Saskatchewan Pallasite, 52.8 kg / 116.4 lbs. (export appeal) $281,960.00

Grants Awarded in 2008 - 2009

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia – The Shrimpers, c. 1898, oil on jute, by Margaret Campbell Macpherson (repatriation) $12,500.00

Library and Archives Canada (Portrait Gallery of Canada) – Map of the South Coast of Newfoundland, 1765, by James Cook (repatriation) $70,000.00

Library and Archives Canada (Portrait Gallery of Canada) – Out for Fun (The Dionne Quintuplets), c. 1950, oil on canvas, by Andrew Loomis (patriation) $2,400.00

McMaster University Libraries – Collection of First World War Military Maps of the Western Front (patriation) $56,014.00

Musée de la civilisation, Québec – North-East Woodlands Tourist Art Collection (repatriation) $76,820.00