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Digital Archives

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.

Library and Archives

Ingenium Archives “City Series”: Ottawa

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.”

Archives Awareness Week 2022 - no tours yet, but try…archival shelf bingo!

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.

Collection Development

Discover the Canadian Pacific Railway Steam Locomotive Drawing Collection

Marcia Mordfield

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Business & Economics

Spice up your Zoom meetings with an image from Ingenium’s Digital Archives!

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

Archives Awareness Week: Digital Archives portal expands railway and aviation collections

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.]

Library and Archives

Behind the scenes: A glimpse at life in a museum’s archives

Brooke Keirstead

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

Social Science & Culture

Colourful, quirky trade literature added to Ingenium’s Digital Archives

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Library and Archives

Happy birthday to Ingenium's Digital Archives

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

A matter of life and death: Diphtheria outbreak in Little Red River, Alberta

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

Business & Economics

The Canadian economy and the Second World War

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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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