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Cartoon-style garden landscape, focusing on the soil under the ground. Various colourful characters such as such as a mole, an earthworm, and compost smile to the camera, dressed as superheroes.

Soil Superheroes

Soil Superheroes provides visitors with an underground perspective on the importance of soil science and conservation.

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An adult and a child extend their hands out to stroke the nose of a large, black horse. They are standing inside a stable at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and the horse is behind a metal enclosure.

One Membership, Three Museums

An Ingenium membership opens the door to discovery at all three of Canada’s museums of science and innovation!

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Elder Suzan Chabot in a forest, harvesting bark from a fallen birch tree.

Thriving from Our Roots

This outdoor Indigenous language installation celebrates the Anishisnàbe Algonquin language.

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Collection Highlights

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

Canada has a long and rich history of innovation in science and technology. The artifacts collected, preserved, and displayed in the three museums of Ingenium showcase this history. Each artifact tells a fascinating story of innovation and illustrates how science and technology have contributed to the transformation of Canada. Find out more about many of these artifacts here.

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From the Channel

Rachel Marie-Louise Clément, born Guillot, salting Madame Clément camembert cheeses produced by Laiterie R.A. Clément (Enregistrée? Incorporée? Limitée?), McMasterville or Beloeil, Québec. Anon., “Fromages du Québec.” Photo-Journal, 28 August 1952, 33.
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Agriculture

“If I had a hundred lives, I would start again the adventure of the camembert:” The delicious Québec saga of the Clément family and its cheeses

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Aug 1, 2022
I salute you, my reading friend. As you will had obviously noticed, the subject of our estradinary blog / bulletin / thingee for this beginning of August is foodish in nature. Let me kick off our story with two births taking place in Francueil, France, a village located more or less in the centre of
A Frisco Soda Water Company of Montréal, Québec, advertisement for the Salvador beer brewed by Reinhardt ‘Salvador’ Brewery Limited of Toronto, Ontario. Anon., “Frisco Soda Water Company.” The Montreal Daily Star, 5 July 1912, 5.
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Food

A tale of two Reinhardts; or, A brief look at two long gone and forgotten Canadian breweries

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Jul 3, 2022
Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Mein lesender Freund. Ami(e) lectrice ou lecteur. My reading friend. In eine Geschichte aus zwei Reinhardts. À un conte de deux Reinhardt. To a tale of two Reinhardts. One could argue our tale began in 1812 with the birth of Gottlieb Friedrich Reinhardt, quite
A typical advertisement for a product offered by O-Pee-Chee Gum Company of London, Ontario. Anon., “O-Pee-Chee Gum Company.” The Aylmer Express, 6 June 1912, 5.
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Food

“Chew Chew Chew Chew Your Bubble Gum:” The sweet old times of O-Pee-Chee Gum Company Limited of London, Ontario

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Jun 19, 2022
I have a favour to ask, my reading friend. Would you be willing to entertain the possibility of accepting a well-known if defunct Canadian confectionery company as a worthwhile topic under our agriculture and food heading? Much obliged. You will of course have noted that today’s illustration was /
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Projects & Initiatives

Learn more about the Canola exhibition at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Canola: Seeds of Innovation

Cartoon-style garden landscape, focusing on the soil under the ground. Various colourful characters such as such as a mole, an earthworm, and compost smile to the camera, dressed as superheroes.
Soil Superheroes

3 posters from the Women in STEM series
Website: Women in STEM