The Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation is a registered Canadian charity. The principal goal of the CHPF is to collect, preserve, digitize and make the archive available to students, researchers and the community. The archive connects people with Canadian history through the promotion and preservation of photography. The Foundation prioritizes digitization of archival holdings in order to make Canadian history available to all. In 2001, Canadian photographer George Hunter founded the CHPF with the vision to preserve the work of important Canadian photographs. After his death in 2013 Hunter bequeathed over 100,000+ prints, negatives, slides and ephemera to the Foundation establishing the largest collection of George Hunter’s work in the world. The Hunter collection is an invaluable resource of rich Canadian historical photographs, including his ground breaking aerial photography from the 1950s, and his iconic images of Canadian industry, First Nations communities and Canadian life and times. In addition to the Hunter collection, the CHPF archive contains a diverse selection of early twentieth century photographs to contemporary images.