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Learn how Ingenium’s Digital Archives are offering unprecedented access to the archives of three national museums and read curated stories using historical images.

15 Stories:

A black and white photograph of a walking path lined with tulips, and a large building in the background with tall spires.
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Library and Archives
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Ingenium Archives “City Series”: Ottawa

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 7, 2022
Ingenium’s archives is launching a new series of short articles highlighting selections of historical photos from cities and towns throughout Canada.
Colour photograph showing white boxes on a vertical bay of archival shelves.  A label on the closest box says: “Creagan Collection AH0075.5. Airmen 1914-1918 Canadian & British. Drawer Two: 2 of 2.”
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Aviation
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Archives Awareness Week 2022 - no tours yet, but try…archival shelf bingo!

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Apr 5, 2022
How can we recreate the spontaneity and whimsy of an in-person tour online? The answer….archival shelf bingo!
A scan of drawing J-35-L-326, one of our largest, illustrating a 4-6-2 type steam locomotive.
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Collection Development
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Discover the Canadian Pacific Railway Steam Locomotive Drawing Collection

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Marcia Mordfield
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 5, 2022
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Steam Locomotive Drawing Collection documents and illustrates in exacting detail the most vibrant period of steam locomotive development in Canada.
A black-and-white photograph showing a line of CF-100 jet aircraft in front of two hangars.
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Business & Economics
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Spice up your Zoom meetings with an image from Ingenium’s Digital Archives!

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
May 8, 2020
Many of us are working from home during the COVID-19 quarantine and are experiencing the daily joys and agonies of video-conference meetings. One of the most popular conference softwares, Zoom, lets you choose your own virtual backgrounds.
Image is a black-and-white photograph showing employees standing on and around a steam locomotive. There are about 40 men
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Aviation
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Archives Awareness Week: Digital Archives portal expands railway and aviation collections

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Mar 31, 2020
As students and educators shift from the traditional classroom to online learning in the face of COVID-19, the Ingenium Digital Archives portal is growing its offerings.
Picture of Brooke in the Canada Science and Technology Museum Archives.]
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Library and Archives
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Behind the scenes: A glimpse at life in a museum’s archives

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Brooke Keirstead
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Sep 13, 2019
When I first started my four-month student placement at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, I had no idea that I’d get the chance to work in two different climates, visit every province across the country, and see a giant artifact roll across the museum parking lot. Museum life sure can surprise you!
D.M. Ferry & Co. Seed Annual 1924, Catalogue from CSTM Library's Trade Literature Collection
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Social Science & Culture
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Colourful, quirky trade literature added to Ingenium’s Digital Archives

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 2, 2019
In honour of Archives Awareness Week (April 1-7), Ingenium is highlighting a few gems taken from our digital collection. The Canada Science and Technology Museum’s Library and Archives holds more than 40,000 pieces of trade literature, dating from the mid-1800s to the present. This collection consists of any type of printed material published by a company or manufacturer to promote sales of its products, including technical and repair manuals, catalogues, parts lists, price lists, advertisements
Screen shot of Explore page on Ingenium's Digital Archives portal.
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Library and Archives
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Happy birthday to Ingenium's Digital Archives

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Apr 1, 2019
Ingenium’s Digital Archives portal is now officially a year old! It’s hard to believe a year has flown by since we first offered unprecedented access to the archives of our three national museums. To celebrate this anniversary — and this year’s Archives Awareness Week in Ontario (April 1-7, 2019) —we’ve added three new collections to the portal. I invite you to take a look at the first images from the Hawker Siddeley fonds, the Ken Molson fonds, and the Trade Literature Collection. In the next
Wilfrid "Wop" May and Victor Horner in an Avro Avian, 1920s
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Aviation
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A matter of life and death: Diphtheria outbreak in Little Red River, Alberta

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jan 28, 2019
In the middle of winter 1929, a serious diphtheria epidemic broke out in the small colony of Little Red River, Alberta (about 800 km north of Edmonton), threatening the health of the entire settlement. A Hudson's Bay Company official had already died from the disease, and several others were sick. Today, people are vaccinated against diphtheria as babies but in 1929 it was a considerable threat, causing sickness and possibly death. By the time of this incident a cure existed for diphtheria, but
C.N.S.S. Storing ships - shelves of goods, Montreal, August 1942
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The Canadian economy and the Second World War

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 8, 2018
Canada’s economy underwent dramatic changes during the Second World War, as Britain looked overseas for new sources of food, lumber, minerals, and other resources. While the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, the outbreak of war spurred the greatest growth the country has ever known. Between 1939 and 1945, Canada’s gross national product (GNP) more than doubled.
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