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NEW! Our Climate Quest Exhibition

Opening May 5! Make your mark at Our Climate Quest – a day of family fun to help change the world.

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Demonstration Kitchen: March Activities

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

DateMar 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023

TimeTimeslots can vary; please check in at the museum’s Admission Booth upon arrival.

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

DateOct 14, 2022 - Sep 4, 2023

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

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Mellow Mornings

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

DateApr 23, 2023

Time8:30 am - 10:00 am

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Art installation: #hopeandhealingcanada

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Our Climate Quest: Small Steps to Big Change

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 piloted by Second Lieutenant Franciszek Jarecki, Rønne airfield, Rønne, Denmark. Jarecki is the gentleman marked by an arrow. Anon., “Undamaged Red Jet in NATO Hands.” The Gazette, 7 March 1953, 2.

A flight for freedom which pierced the Iron Curtain; or, The day Second Lieutenant Franciszek Jarecki escaped from Poland aboard a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

How much do you know about 5 March 1953, my reading friend? The jury of the British Film Academy (BFA) selected the British motion picture The Sound Barrier as the best British film of 1952, as well as the best made film anywhere on planet Earth in that year, on 5 March 1953, you say (type?)? Very good. May yours truly add that the award for the best performance by a British actor of the male gender for 1952 went to Sir Ralph Richardson, a gentleman who played Sir John Ridgefield, one of the

A spliced photo, from left to right: Shaun the Sheep in front of a model of ESA’s European Service Module, a top view into a red bucket containing thousands of light-brown, rod-shaped pellets, and a toddler wearing a wool hat and wool sweater holds a grownup’s finger.

3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the March edition, we explain why wool keeps us warm, how it can be used to improve soil, and how it can help prevent fires in spacecraft!

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Contesting Closure

Contesting Closure is an Ingenium-University of Toronto research collaboration that examines the history of General Motors Canada in Oshawa from 1980 to 2019.

Four of the main characters of the what could well be Canada’s first SF television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command. Anon., “Space Command Is Not Run-Of-Mill ‘Opera.’” The Ottawa Citizen, 26 December 1953, 14.

Social Science & Culture

“Challenging the stars themselves”: An infinitesimal look at what could well be Canada’s first science fiction television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Do you like science fiction (SF), my reading friend? And yes, yours truly very much realises that if one was to ask two SF fans for a definition of that genre, you would probably get three opinions, if not five. Personally, I rather like SF. I am especially fond of books that go over the history of the many aspects of that genre, from the magazines and books to the radio serials, television series and blockbuster movies. You will note that yours truly used the acronym SF as an abbreviation of

The prototype of the Astro Kinetics Aero Kinetic Lift, Houston, Texas. Anon., “Aircraft and Powerplants – Crane version of ‘flying saucer’ projected in U.S.A.” The Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News, 7 March 1963, 24.

“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Texan flying saucer!” Astro Kinetics Corporation of Houston, Texas, and its unique looking vertical take off landing aircraft

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Yours truly will readily admit that I have had, have and will presumably continue to have a strong affinity toward the unusual, the strange, the odd looking, etc. To my great shame, in my teenage years, when I had hair (Sigh…), I was intrigued by the absurd / batty / outrageous / preposterous / ridiculous theories put forward from the 1960s onward by Swiss author Erich Anton Paul von Däniken. Chariots of the Gods? Return to the Stars?? If I may quote the 1980 aphorism by American astronomer /

James Bertram Blackmon (on the right, of course) talking about his rocket with the host of the very popular American daily news and talk television show Today, David Cunningham Garroway, New York City, New York. Anon., “Jimmy on TV Show.” The Charlotte Observer, 1 December 1956, 2.

Social Science & Culture

An American whiz kid at the dawn of the Space Age who became a professor at the Propulsion Research Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville: James Bertram Blackmon, this is your life, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello there, my spaced out reading friend, and welcome to the second and final part of our look at the life of teenage rocket maker and adult engineer James Bertram “Jim / Jimmy” Blackmon. It was / is quite the story if I may say (type?) so. In September, and yes, we are still in the year 1956. In September, state I, Blackmon was the guest of honour of an episode of the television show Synopsis, broadcasted by WBTV, an independent station based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the oldest television

James Bertram “Jim / Jimmy” Blackmon and his homemade rocket, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 1956. Irwin Hersey, “Aid for basement rocketeers.” Astronautics, February 1958, 25.

Social Science & Culture

An American whiz kid at the dawn of the Space Age who became a professor at the Propulsion Research Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville: James Bertram Blackmon, this is your life, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Welcome yet again to the wonderful world of space, my reading friend. As we both know, the Space Age came of age during the Cold War, that dreadful period of the 20th century that our species seems quite intent on returning to. Indeed, yours truly would like to offer a life story lifted from the pages of history dating from the second half of the 1950s – and beyond. Let us begin without any further ado. James Bertram “Jim / Jimmy” Blackmon was born in December 1938, in Charlotte, North Carolina

The Canadair Silver Star of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2005. This aircraft was flown by the Red Knight, the solo aerobatic pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force, in 1961-64. Alain Rioux, via Wikimedia.

It really kept going and going and going: A brief look at the Canadian career of the Lockheed / Canadair Silver Star jet trainer, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Welcome to this special National Aviation Day edition of our blog / bulletin / thingee. As you may have noticed, the most recent issue of said blog / bulletin / thingee had reached the average length I allow myself to bust your chops. Hence this special edition which yours truly will begin without further ado. The first Canadair Silver Star left the ground in December 1952. Curiously, it might, I repeat might, have been fitted with a Rolls-Royce Nene engine delivered by a major French firm

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