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Canada History Week 2018 (November 19 - 25)

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This year, the week will highlight the theme of 'Science, Creativity and Innovation: Our Canadian Story' and focus on historic achievements by Canadians in the fields of medicine, science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about inspirational stories that highlight the great work being done in the history community.

11 Stories:

Christian Bagg testing a prototype of the Icon Explore in a park on a spring day.
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Engineering & Technology
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Christian Bagg and the Icon Explore

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Cédric Brosseau
Ingenium Canada
Nov 23, 2018
For Canada History Week 2018 - A short blog post highlighting Christian Bagg’s creativity and innovation, which helped him develop the Icon Explore adaptive off-road vehicle.
Elaine visits the Moving Stories exhibition, with daughter Jamie Wolfe Phillips, husband Jim Phillips, and daughter Emily Wolfe Phillips.
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Road Transportation
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Honouring an innovator who gave others the “gift of freedom”

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 19, 2018
Ottawa resident Elaine Wolfe was undoubtedly thinking about her late father, Clifford Wolfe, as she visited the Moving Stories exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum last week. The temporary exhibition – which showcases some rarely-seen artifacts from the museum’s transportation collection – includes Elaine’s 1988 Chevy Blazer, outfitted with an innovative wheelchair lift that was invented by her dad when she was a young adult. “Calling my first truck an artifact is making me
Creative solutions
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Social Science & Culture
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Finding creativity and innovation through world travel

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Anna Adamek
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 16, 2018
Being a historian of technology, by profession and by heart, I always look for examples of human ingenuity during my travels. These creative solutions — which employ available tools and materials — offer a unique glimpse into the lives of communities, the choices they make, and the challenges they face. Here are a few examples.
View of the University of Toronto Libraries website for the Insulin Collections.
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Medicine
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Canada in the world’s memory: The insulin collections at University of Toronto

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Nov 13, 2018
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
The Repair Drone
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Arts & Design
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Junior inventors aim to make life easier in space

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 10, 2018
As we celebrate World Space Week 2018, kids from across Canada have been busy thinking up creative ideas about how to improve the human experience in space. Last year, Little Inventors — a U.K.-based organization — launched an initiative called Little Inventors: Inventions for Space, in partnership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Space Agency. Kids across Canada were challenged to dream up ideas to make life easier — and more fun — in
Canoes hover around a beach shore in Bella Bella, British Columbia during the Qatuwas in 2014
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Indigenous
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An Indigenous canoe video series marks a new wave of cultural revitalization

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Amelia Healey
Ingenium
Aug 1, 2018
Through a new online video series, Frank Brown is highlighting how Indigenous youth are reconnecting with the traditional, ocean-going canoe. Brown is the executive producer of Glwa – the ocean-going canoe, a series of 13 short videos that showcase the widespread impact of the canoe and the revival of its practice with maritime Indigenous culture today.
A group of young citizen scientists test water quality.
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Water Rangers: Putting water quality testing into the hands of citizen scientists

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Cassidy Swanston
Canada Science and Technology Museum
May 30, 2018
Kat Kavanagh is the co-founder and executive director of Water Rangers, a citizen science project that brings education and water quality testing to the public. The Ingenium Channel sat down with her — over the phone, as she was away doing water testing at her cottage — to learn about Water Rangers and what it means to be a citizen scientist.
Dudley bobsled
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Arts & Design
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Rediscovering the Dudley bobsled

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William Knight
Curator of Agriculture and Fisheries
May 25, 2018
By William Knight and Bruce Dudley Some museum artifacts are mysterious. They lack provenance, or history, so we don’t know who made or used them, or why. Occasionally, however, objects acquire stories. Such is the case with a bobsled exhibited in Artifact Alley in the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The bobsled, it turns out, has a rich history that connects winter fun, Ottawa’s transportation history, and the Great Depression—and memories of a beloved father. As lead curator of
Main camera used by Karsh
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Lights! Camera! Personality! The Karsh of Ottawa Collection Profile

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Anna Adamek
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
May 24, 2018
In 1997 Jerry Fielder contacted the then-director of the Collection and Research Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Geoff Rider, with an offer of a donation. Each year the Museum receives several hundred offers from across Canada, yet Geoff immediately recognized that this was not an average proposal. Since 1979 Jerry had been a curator and an assistant to prominent Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.
THE ART OF THE BRICK
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Engineering & Technology
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Building a colourful, new life

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 14, 2018
Have you ever dreamed of ditching your day job and playing with toys instead? Nathan Sawaya—a former attorney in New York City—did just that, and he couldn’t be happier. Sawaya creates inspiring artwork from one of the most recognizable toys in the world: the LEGO® brick. An exhibition featuring his creations, THE ART OF THE BRICK, has travelled around the globe and was named one of CNN’s Top Ten “Global Must-See Exhibitions.” THE ART OF THE BRICK is coming to the Canada Science and Technology
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