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Aquaculture: Farming the Waters

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901 Prince of Wales Drive

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1867 St Laurent Blvd

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Sep 1, 2022 - Nov 1, 2022

Available year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Help Name an Exoplanet!

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Saturday Test Drives with EV Experience

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Canada Science and Technology Museum

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Aquaculture: Farming the Waters

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Eyes on the Skies: Managing Air Traffic in Canada

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Permanent Exhibition

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Artifact Alley

Canada Science and Technology Museum

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Permanent Exhibition

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The Thor-Agena rocket which put the Canadian satellite Alouette into orbit, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Anon., “Alouette’ Working Perfectly – First Canadian Satellite in Orbit.” The Montreal Star, 29 September 1962, 1.

Alouette, gentille alouette, Alouette, je te lancerai; Or, How the Cold War propelled Canada into space via the Alouette satellite, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome aboard our special spatial ship, my reading friend. Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Thunderbirds are go! If you do not recognise the opening sequence of every episode of the British television series Thunderbirds, launched in September 1965, then there are serious gaps in your knowledge of the popular culture of the Cold War period. Period. And yes, that series was mentioned in September 2018 and March 2019 issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee. And yes again, yours truly remembers seeing

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Canada’s Federal Interdepartmental Indigenous STEM Cluster – A Force for Cooperation, Empowerment, and Reconciliation

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Two of the engineers who made the Alouette satellite a success: Colin A. Franklin (left) and John N. Barry, Ottawa, Ontario. Anon., “Many ‘Firsts’ for Canadian Satellite – Alouette Sports New Space Advances.” The Montreal Star, 22 September 1962, 43.

Alouette, gentille alouette, Alouette, je te lancerai; Or, How the Cold War propelled Canada into space via the Alouette satellite, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Did you know that the Canadian space program was a creature of the Cold War? Yes, yes, a creature of the Cold War between the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their allies / satellites, Canada and Poland for example. A slightly delicate question if I may. In your opinion, was / is Canada an ally of the United States – or one of its satellites? Just askin’. That Cold War had already chilled our ginormous blue marble for a good ten years when the USSR launched the

A spliced, three-part image features: a view of the Apollo 11 ascent module flying above the grey Moon on the left, honeybees on a honeycomb in the centre, and a hand holding a fanned-out deck of cards.

Three things you should know about how mathematics is used for space exploration, how honeybees are masters of geometry, and the uniqueness of a shuffled deck of cards.

Approximate view of the area in which the solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 could be observed in its totality (main image), or not (right-side column). Anon. “Mighty Workings of Tomorrow’s Eclipse.” Sherbrooke Daily Record, 30 August 1932, 1.

“We all pray for a cloudless day:” The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 in Québec, part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello, my reading friend, and welcome to this third part of our article on the total solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 – a part you were very keen on last week. So, you can store the pitchforks and torches. Yours truly would like to be able to tell you that everything went swimmingly on that day in August 1932, in the middle of the afternoon, but the reality was quite different. Clouds darkened the sky in a good part of the Québec zone of total darkness, from Parent in the North to Magog in the

Some of the eminent British researchers en route to Canada to observe the total solar eclipse of 31 August 1932. Anon., “Le ciel québécois et les astronomes. La Presse, 29 July 1932, 9.

“We all pray for a cloudless day:” The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 in Québec, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello, my reading friend passionate about astronomy. Would you like to continue without further delay this presentation devoted to the solar eclipse of August 1932? Wunderbar! Before undertaking that reading exercise, allow me to identify some of the eminent British researchers en route to Canada aboard the Canadian liner SS Montcalm operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships Ocean Services Limited for the purpose of observing said eclipse. Yes, the ones you saw on the photograph above a few

Cropped photograph of the 1874 ear phonautograph showing the mouthpiece and ear components.

Reconstructing a lost object: can you identify this component in Alexander Graham Bell's 1874 ear phonautograph?

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The ear phonautograph was a macabre instrument. It was built by Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake in 1874, and used a surgically-removed human ear—a skull fragment, ear canal, ear drum, and ossicle bones—to visually “write” sound waves. It worked like this: the surgically-removed ear was first attached to the top bracket of the instrument by a bolt driven through the skull fragment. It was then tightened in place with a thumbscrew. When a user spoke into the mouthpiece, located behind

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