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From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.

With your permission, or without it if need be, my reading friend, I would like to launch this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question. Do your like mysteries and / or oddities? Me too. By the way, did you know that, as late as 2017, the Public Works & Environmental Services of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the nonbilingual capital of a bilingual country, sometimes used divining rods to locate an underground pipe suspected of leaking? I kid you not, but I do digress. Now that yours

As a member of the species Homo sapiens, or wise man in English, an oxymoron of oxymorons if there is one, my reading friend, you must eat to survive. Agriculture played / plays a crucial role in this survival of humanity which over time became an almost exponential growth in population which threatens the balance, and even perhaps the survival of the Earth’s ecosystem. I would like to share a few words with you today about one of the pioneers of agricultural science in Québec and Canada