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Stories from our collections, about the people we meet and the work we do at our three museums. Hosted by Collections and Research staff at Ingenium, find out about our diverse activities and projects, the exhibitions we work on, and the connections we make across Canada and around the world.

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Mary Grey by the Dominion Observatory's historic refracting telescope.
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Engineering & Technology
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Celebrating notable Canadian women astronomers

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Sharon Odell
Guest Writer
Feb 9, 2021
It’s the International day of Women and Girls in Science! Miriam Burland and Mary Grey are two Canadian women who enriched the world of astronomy.
A large, green industrial loom that has a number of cranks and wheels.
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Collection Development
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Untangling the knot: A brief history of the Canadian textile industry

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Kateryna Tonkykh
Guest writer, Carleton University
Dec 23, 2019
A Carleton history student wrestles with a “green monstrosity” at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and learns about the history of the Canadian textile industry.
Roger De Abreu with a model of the satellites that he helped develop.
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Earth & Environment
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Canada as never seen before: The new RADARSAT Constellation Mission

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Michel Labrecque
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology
Dec 5, 2019
Canada's RADARSAT program has a long history, going back to experimenting with radar sensors onboard the Convair 580 aircraft, which is now in the collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
The Dairy Barn at the Central Experimental Farm in 1894. It is now part of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.
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Agriculture
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Historic barns bring architecture to life for students

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Darby Ace
Nov 18, 2019
The Central Experimental Farm (CEF) in Ottawa is known for agricultural ingenuity and scientific discovery, as a national historic site and urban greenspace, and for being the home of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Architecture, however, is not typically the first thing people associate with this agricultural oasis in Ottawa.
A black-and-white photo of a man standing outside with his left hand on the seat of a wooden bicycle.
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Agriculture
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Hand-built bicycle tells a historical story of a colourful, Ontario teen

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Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Oct 24, 2019
The Billings Estate National Historic Site is currently displaying a curious wooden bicycle. It was hand built in the late 1890s by a teenager named James Henry Blair, using materials scavenged off his father’s Gloucester farm. Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum give us a rare chance to explore the mindset of this young inventor as he puzzled through the process of how to build a bicycle with limited resources.
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Collection Development
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Field Notes: Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manitoba

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David Pantalony, PhD
Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 8, 2019
With the recent announcement that James Peebles had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, it is timely to revisit the history of the Physics Department at the University of Manitoba. In 2013, I visited the department to learn specifically about their program in mass spectrometry. On a broader level, my research and collecting touched on aspects of Peebles's rich undergraduate experience in the 1950s. It has been over one hundred years since British scientists developed methods to deflect ions (charged
A number of images of plants are superimposed over an aerial view of a farmer's field.
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Agriculture
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Practising science communication at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Jagpreet Kaur Maker
Oct 7, 2019
Born and educated in Mumbai, the culturally diverse metropolis of India, I moved to Canada in 2018 as a new permanent resident to pursue my passion of making science more accessible and building trust in the brand, “Made in India.”
Panoramic photograph of delegates to the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition in London. Below the image is a hand-drawn silhouette, used for identification purposes.
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Fisheries
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Anniversary of an excursion: Canadians at the 1883 London fisheries exhibition

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William Knight
Curator of Agriculture and Fisheries
Aug 30, 2019
Today marks 136 years since this photograph — a panorama on the banks of the Thames River at Cliveden, west of London — was taken on August 31, 1883. The 43 men in this group portrait constitute a “who’s-who” of international fisheries in the late nineteenth century. All were in London attending the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, which had opened in the spring of that year. That August day they enjoyed a river excursion, breaking away from London and the exhibition.
Cariole collected by Marius Barbeau in 1936, Staint-Pascale-de Kamouraska (now Saint Pascal). Ingenium Museums, artifact No. 1967.0197.
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Agriculture
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Recovering the lost artifacts of ethnologist Marius Barbeau

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Denise Steeves
Aug 21, 2019
You might not imagine that volunteer work at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum would involve unravelling a mystery. But in truth, it can!
An infographic with four feature images of bicycles and other artifacts from the Shields collection.
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Ingenium's big move: Packing Canada's largest bicycle collection

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Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Aug 20, 2019
VIEW INFOGRAPHIC It’s no secret that Ingenium is gearing up for a big move. As staff busy themselves with this mammoth task, let us take a moment to fully appreciate just one of the MANY collections being packed up for the journey to the new Collections Conservation Center. Did you know that the Canada Science and Technology Museum holds the largest collection related to the history of bicycle technology in Canada? The Shields Collection contains over 3,000 items from the early nineteenth
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