The University of Saskatchewan has launched a COVID-19 Community Archive, they say will document life in Saskatchewan during the pandemic.

The digital archive includes submissions of photographs, social media posts, videos, journals and other projects from residents that will be used to record individual or collective experiences.

Dr. Erika Dyck, a Usask History professor, says we are living a unique moment in our history that unless your are 100 years old, people just haven’t lived through before. She says they wanted to capture people’s experiences, coping mechanisms, frustrations, stresses and also provide a way for people to share any coping strategies by putting them into this archive.

Dyck says the long term goal is to preserve the memory of the pandemic and there are also short term goals in getting people to communicate and connect by seeing what kinds of things are happening across the province, as people struggle to make sense of this strange moment in our lives.

The information will also provide valuable source material for researchers and historians in the future. Dyck says eventually they would like to do targeted interviews, of those on the front lines of the pandemic, to add to the archive once the pandemic passes.

To view or submit content to the archive visit covid19archive.usask.ca