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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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Hector De la Hoz Siegler

Meet an Innovator: Hector De la Hoz Siegler

Professor Hector De la Hoz Siegler’s work brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘green energy’. Working to improve processes of growing microalgaes for use as alternative energy sources has led to an award winning career as a researcher. In this video presented by TELUS Spark, Dr. De la Hoz Siegler speaks about his career path and the opportunities of research in alternative energy technologies. For more information about Dr. De la Hoz Siegler’s work, visit his website at people.ucalgary.ca/

The Calgary Fire Department

Earth & Environment

Meet an Innovator: The Calgary Fire Department

The everchanging risks and challenges of firefighting and determining the origin and cause of a fire push firefighters to innovate constantly. In this video presented by TELUS Spark, members of the Calgary Fire Department speak about how innovative tools and problem solving skills are core to the work of firefighters. For more information about the Calgary Fire Department, visit their website at: www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Fire/.

Snow goggles / L.T. Burwash/Library and Archives Canada

Snow Goggles

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The answer from the world around them. Anyone who has walked across a snow-covered field on a sunny day can attest to the blinding intensity of the glare. Today, we quickly slip on our Ray-Bans or Oakleys. The Inuit people of Canada’s North had no such luxury. For an answer to snow blindness, they looked to the world around them. Taking a piece of antler or bone, usually from a caribou, the Inuit carved a long slit through it – wide enough to give its wearer the ability to see but narrow enough

Courtesy of Ingenium

BlackBerry

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The catapult to the future. Nineteen ninety-six stands as the opening year in our era of anytime-anywhere communications. That year, Mike Lazaridis unveiled the prototype of his first wireless communications device. Sure, there were all kinds of cellular phones on the market by then, but while most telecom firms and mobile carriers still focused on voice, the enterprising engineer from Waterloo, Ontario, believed people were just as eager to communicate by data. The next year, his company

Courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada

Canola

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The superior cooking oil. Rapeseed was the cash crop for generations of Canadian farmers. The oil produced from the bright yellow-flowering member of the mustard family was used to lubricate the world’s steam engines. But when diesel replaced steam, the demand for rapeseed plummeted, taking many Canadian farm incomes with it. Baldur Stefansson and Keith Downey found an alternative use for rapeseed oil. In 1974, the two agricultural scientists at the University of Manitoba carried out a series of

Meet an Innovator: Jeff de Boer

Nothing is too small, too big, or unimaginable for this internationally renowned metalsmith and multi-media artist. Jeff de Boer combines cutting-edge technology with fine artistry and design. Jeff began crafting armour in high school and majored in jewelry design at the Alberta College of Art and Design. While studying at ACAD, he combined his interests to craft intricate historically accurate armour for cats and mice. His body of work includes both the small scale pieces, as well as large

Earth & Environment

Meet an Innovator: Tremaine Lea, Storm Chaser

Tremaine Lea is a storm chaser and photographer from Calgary, Alberta. He is one of the few storm chasers in Canada, building a collection of dramatic storm pictures and videos. In this video presented by TELUS Spark, Tremaine talks about how he learned to photograph storms. He learned about the structures of storms and how they form in order to take the more visually interesting shots.

Fogo Island Inn

Fogo Island Inn: a modernist inn/art gallery with an unusual mission

Manuels River Hibernia Interpretation Centre

Zita Cobb opened the Fogo Island Inn, a 29-suite facility, on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island in 2012. It is a beautiful edifice, combining modern architectural themes with traditional Newfoundland constructional elements, providing travelers with a respite from today’s hectic world. It is also the basis for a unique business model: taking a small, almost quaint Newfoundland coastal town and making the community itself – its people, culture and environment - the main attraction for visitors. Perched

Matthew Sheridan

Matthew Sheridan: Nix Color Sensor

Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation

The ability to match, formulate, correct and control the quality of colour is a vital function in many industries including textiles, cosmetics, computer imaging, commercial paints and graphic design. Traditionally, every colour measurement method, from spectrophotometers to fans of paint colours, has been costly, difficult to transport and largely inaccurate due to varying light conditions and human error. Matthew Sheridan came up with the idea for a ping pong ball-sized colour sensor after

Fabrizio Chiacchia and Iwain Lam

Fabrizio Chiacchia and Iwain Lam: CleanPatch

Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation

An estimated 220,000 Canadians a year pick up infections at healthcare facilities, with hospital-acquired infections (HAI) identified as the cause of up to 12,000 deaths and $1 billion in health-care costs annually. Typically, hospitals and clinics have approached this challenge by investing in more staff and supplies to keep surfaces clean. Fabrizio Chiacchia and Iwain Lam’s pioneering approach involves developing products to prevent hospital beds, stretchers and other surfaces from becoming

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