Glenbow Archives are Canada’s largest non-governmental archival repository. As such, the CHA, as well as historians and other sholars that have conducted research in Glenbow’s extensive holdings of documents and photographs relating to the history of Western Canada, believe that the 50% cut made to its archvist personnel will erode the Institute’s ability to “exercise curatorial care of and provide public access to the collection assets” as the Glenbow-Alberta Institute Act requires (section 2.3c) and is not consistent with the Institute’s stated values and beliefs or its management goals: “to refine and build the collection and maximize accessibility, while improving condition, utility and security.”

The CHA has therefore undertaken to write to Glenbow's administration to register its opposition to the budgetary cuts it made, cuts that disproportionately targeted archivists.

The CHA has the support of numerous individuals in opposing the cuts. To read the CHA president, Mary Lynn Stewart's, letter addressed to Glenbow's administration, please visit our Advocacy section.