Library and Archives Canada
What Library and Archives Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Canadian Heritage; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$194M
spent by Library and Archives Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.0%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Library and Archives Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Personnel
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Professional and special services
Other subsidies and payments
Public debt charges
Rentals
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transfer payments
Repair and maintenance
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Information
Transportation and communications
External revenues
Internal revenues
$122M
$30.2M
$17.3M
$8.9M
$5.3M
$5.1M
$2.9M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$901K
$486K
$365K
-$102K
-$1.5M
Total: $194M.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$122M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Library and Archives Canada paid, program by program: $1.4M in all, against $1.4M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Supporting the Documentary Heritage Communities ProgramPayments | Contribution | $1,425,000 |
| 1 programs | $1,425,000 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $286,290 | $198,289 | $0 | $949,182 | $1,433,761 |
| 2024 | $447,079 | $327,450 | $0 | $1,468,861 | $2,243,390 |
| 2023 | $277,091 | $327,747 | $0 | $1,280,153 | $1,884,991 |
| 2022 | $182,127 | $214,387 | $0 | $1,041,334 | $1,437,849 |
| 2021 | $175,076 | $113,607 | $0 | $505,232 | $793,915 |
| 2020 | $289,581 | $110,000 | $0 | $766,316 | $1,165,897 |
| 2019 | $478,963 | $311,641 | $0 | $1,582,663 | $2,373,267 |
| 2018 | $227,453 | $289,603 | $0 | $1,166,797 | $1,683,852 |
| 2017 | $349,839 | $325,651 | $15,385 | $1,718,570 | $2,409,444 |
Library and Archives Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Canadian Heritage
- Canadian Heritage
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Canada Council for the Arts
- Telefilm Canada
- Canadian Museum of History
- National Film Board
- National Arts Centre Corporation
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Museum of Science and Technology
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- The National Battlefields Commission
- Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
