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Innovation Storybook

This board features articles that were originally written and submitted as part of a Canada 150 Project, the Innovation Storybook, to crowdsource stories of Canadian innovation with partners across Canada. The content has since been migrated to Ingenium’s Channel, a digital hub featuring curated content related to science, technology and innovation.

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Kayak - Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Marine Transportation

Kayak

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The high-speed hunter. The kayak is the hunter’s boat in name; it means exactly that in Inuktitut, the language of its creators. The kayak is also the hunter’s boat in design; it is fast and manoeuvrable, used by Inuit hunters with equal effectiveness on rivers, inland lakes, and coastal waters. The kayak is old. Inuit hunters have relied on them for at least four thousand years. The classic vessel is constructed entirely out of natural materials, made of stitched sealskin or the skins of other

Dr. Cornelia Hoehr, a research scientist at TRIUMF and manager of the TRIUMF Proton Therapy facility, prepares a patient for treatment.

Proton Therapy Cancer Treatment

Canada’s first proton therapy facility On August 21, 1995, Mr. Lorne Scott of Campbell River, BC, became the first person in Canada to have his cancer treated with a proton beam. Mr. Scott suffered from a rare form of ocular cancer called ocular melanoma, and had been faced with the dilemma that many Canadians with ocular melanoma experienced: either undergo traditional therapy, such as chemo- and radiotherapy, or travel abroad for the effective but expensive proton therapy treatment. The advent

Smiles all round in the Control Room, December 15th, 1974: the Director, Reg Richardson, and Associate Director, Erich Vogt lead an impromptu celebration for TRIUMF’s first 500 MeV proton beam.

The Moment We Activated the World’s Largest Cyclotron

Canada’s first proton beam On the afternoon of December 15th, 1974, researchers at TRIUMF in Vancouver, B.C. extracted Canada’s first accelerated proton beam. This momentous achievement marked the start of a new era in nuclear and particle physics research in Canada and around the globe. A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator in which charged particles in a vertical magnetic field accelerate outward in a spiral pattern, driven by a high-frequency electric field. The cyclotron at TRIUMF is

Blue Box Recycling - Andrew Park Shutterstock.com

Household Technology

Blue Box Recycling

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The better way. Earth-changing ideas are not the property of Ph.Ds. Anyone can innovate if they just look around and ask, “Can’t we do this a better way?” Nyle Ludolph asked that question. The Kitchener, Ontario, garbage man was troubled by the vast amounts of waste he saw during his daily pickups, for he knew the landfills in his town were bursting at their seams. His answer came in the form of a simple blue box. In 1983, Nyle championed the world’s first municipal curb-side recycling program

Euro: Westend61 Premium/Shutterstock.com

Business & Economics

Euro

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The regional currency. Sometimes the fastest path to innovation comes in casting aside played-out assumptions. Robert Mundell of Kingston, Ontario, was one for discarding outdated thinking to get at something new: if states within countries could share the same currency, he thought, what stopped countries within regions from doing the same? Some speculate that his being from Canada—a country not only made up of many disparate parts but also whose economic welfare had been tied to the fortunes of

Dr. Margaret Newton. Photograph courtesy of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Government of Canada

End Of Grain Rust

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The fight with blight. Each of us could only hope to enjoy the definitive professional success of Margaret Newton. In 1925, Canada’s minister of agriculture appointed her to manage the newly opened Dominion Rust Research Laboratory at the University of Manitoba and gave her the task of defeating grain rust. At the time, this pathogenic fungus was a plague of the nation’s harvest, destroying some thirty million bushels of wheat each year. When she retired some twenty years later, that figure was

Electric Wheelchair courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada

Household Technology

Electric Wheelchair

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The veteran’s new legs. War is often an exercise in unintended consequences. The wonder-drug penicillin, for instance, enabled thousands of gravely injured World War Two servicemen to survive their wounds, yet many of these otherwise doomed veterans returned to their homes and families as paraplegics and quadriplegics. Conventional wheelchairs were of little use to these men, whose manual strength and dexterity had been impaired or eliminated. George Klein embraced this new challenge—an

Electric Radio courtesy of Ingenium

Household Technology

Electric Radio

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The freedom from batteries. Today the name Rogers is synonymous with communication in Canada. While most associate the surname with the tv and mobile empire, the first man behind the name was a radio guy. And not just any radio guy. In 1925, Edward Rogers Sr. developed the first commercially viable all-electric radio in Toronto, Ontario. The tireless inventor also created an adaptor set that made it possible for owners of old sets to throw away their batteries and plug their radios into the

Egg Carton - safakcakir/Shutterstock.com

Egg Carton

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The dimple that settled a fight. Who says nothing positive ever comes from fighting? In 1911, Joseph Coyle happened upon a heated argument between a deliveryman and a hotelier in his hometown of Smithers, British Columbia. The hotel owner was upset because the eggs shipped from a local farm often arrived cracked or broken. While a newspaper publisher by profession, Joseph was a designer by inclination. The overheard argument inspired him to create the egg carton. The secret of its success is its

Declaration of Human Rights © Canada Post Corporation Library and Archives Canada

Social Science & Culture

Declaration of Human Rights

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The precursor to peace on earth. McGill University professor of law John Humphrey believed “there will be peace on earth when the rights of all are respected.” He backed up this profound and noble sentiment with the best attempt made so far to identify the inalienable rights of all. Professor Humphrey’s achievement is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—a preamble and thirty brief clauses that encapsulate the rights to which each and every human being is entitled. He wrote the declaration

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