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Family Gingerbread House Contest

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Nov 14, 2018 - Dec 20, 2018

Contest entries to be dropped off Dec 12 to Dec 20 between 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Aviation, Space & Beyond

Aviation, Space & Beyond

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Canada Science and Technology Museum's 1 year Anniversary

Canada Science and Technology Museum's 1 Year Anniversary

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibitions

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Permanent Exhibition

Main Exhibition Hall

Main Exhibition Hall

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Permanent Exhibition

Cipher | Decipher

Cipher | Decipher

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Temporary Exhibition

From the Channel

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View of the University of Toronto Libraries website for the Insulin Collections.

Health & Medicine

Canada in the world’s memory: The insulin collections at University of Toronto

Do you know what memories—made in Canada—are now enshrined in the world’s memory? The UNESCO Memory of the World program registers documentary heritage considered to be of world significance and outstanding universal value. A number of collections preserved in Canada are on the register, including some that show the history of science and innovation. The University of Toronto’s insulin collections, for example, consist of the archives created by the scientific team of Frederick Grant Banting

A Thor Automagic combined dishwasher and washing machine. Anon., “Advertising – Thor Canadian Company Limited.” La Patrie, 20 November 1948, 4.

Consumer Products

Do Asgardians use Thor Automagics to wash their dishes and clothing?

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Today’s topic, as you undoubtedly know by now, is an unconventional dual purpose household appliance yours truly stumbled across while perusing, a virtual perusing actually, the pages of the 20 November 1948 issue of La Patrie , a daily newspaper published in Montréal, Québec. I know, I know, a combined dishwasher and washing machine has little to do with the aforementioned world of aviation and space. Still,

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Collections & Connections

Stories from our collections, about the people we meet and the work we do at our three museums. Hosted by Collections and Research staff at Ingenium, find out about our diverse activities and projects, the exhibitions we work on, and the connections we make across Canada and around the world.

C.N.S.S. Storing ships - shelves of goods, Montreal, August 1942

Business & Economics

The Canadian economy and the Second World War

Kristy von Moos

Canada’s economy underwent dramatic changes during the Second World War, as Britain looked overseas for new sources of food, lumber, minerals, and other resources. While the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, the outbreak of war spurred the greatest growth the country has ever known. Between 1939 and 1945, Canada’s gross national product (GNP) more than doubled.

An image from the credits of CF-RCK.

Aviation & Space

A captivating television show: CF-RCK, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Good morning, my reading friend. Yours truly is pleased to see that your interest in the CF-RCK television series remains. I assume you want to know more about it. Let us therefore begin this overview without any further ado. Produced in 2 distinct sets of episodes, CF-RCK looked at the adventures and mishaps of the owners of a Cessna Model 180 registered as, you guessed it, CF-RCK. And no, my reading friend, I can not confirm that this registration was chosen because the show was broadcasted by

The main actors of the Société Radio-Canada television show CF-RCK, Yves Létourneau (on the right) and René Caron. Anon., « Une scène de CF-RCK avec René Caron et Yves Létourneau. » La semaine à Radio-Canada, from 2 to 8 January 1960, cover.

Aviation & Space

A captivating television show: CF-RCK, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Top of the morning, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. With your permission, or without it, if need be, yours truly will move a little away from our usual anniversarial approach to address a subject that is close to my heart. One of the first, if not the first fictional / entertainment Canadian television series devoted to aviation went on the air in November 1958. It was entitled CF-RCK . This weekly production of Société Radio-Canada, a state-owned

The chicken feeder presented during a 1948 episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television show The Inventors’ Club. Anon., “Sciences et voyages – La télévision permet aux inventeurs anglais de faire connaître leurs inventions au grand public.” Photo-Journal, 7 October 1948, 8.

Engineering & Technology

Inventing is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and 10% television

Rénald Fortier

Hello there, my reading friend. Television is undoubtedly one of the great inventions of the 20th century. It is the best of things, it is the worst of things, if I may paraphrase Charles John Huffam Dickens. Would you care to accompany me down memory lane to look at one of the best television show you have never heard of, a story brought to you by a photo found in the 7 October 1948 issue of Photo-Journal , a weekly newspaper published in Montréal, Québec? Once upon a time, around September

A mole sits on top of some freshly dug earth

Happy National Mole Day!

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You might be thinking we’re honouring those funny-looking, burrowing creatures — but National Mole Day is actually in honour of a different kind of mole. Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10 23 ), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Chemists and chemistry students around the world celebrate Mole Day with various activities related to chemistry and moles. For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams)

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