Work-Life in Canada is a five-year research project that explores the diverse and changing social meanings of work through image, word, and sound. Funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant, our main aim is to develop a multimedia website featuring 100 work-life stories from working people across dozens of occupations and seven provinces and territories, including several Indigenous communities. The project extends professional artist-photographer Martin Weinhold's singular Workspace Canada collection, which holds documentary portraits of 600 working people, developed over the space of 15 years (workspacecanadaproject.com). An interdisciplinary team of social science and humanities scholars has joined with Weinhold to re-visit a representative cross-section of his original participants. This new iteration, Work-Life in Canada, adds a second set of photos, a work-life story, and workplace soundscape recordings. From this work will emerge a permanently available and fully searchable public digital collection---a first-of-its-kind knowledge resource in Canada. The site will reach multiple publics, secondary and postsecondary students, and scholars of work, family, intersectional life course, cultural studies, Indigenous studies, and social history.

We have developed this website to inform and update all who are interested as the Work-Life project unfolds between 2024 and 2027. (In 2021-2023, we completed research and production in Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.) The final repository will be hosted elsewhere. For now, we want to share the journey of this research project with you.