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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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Margaret Newton devoted her life to eradicating wheat rust. She helped Canada’s economy by almost completely reducing revenue loss from the fungus.

Saving Canada’s wheat

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1916, Canada had its worst season for wheat with 200 million dollars in loss from bad crops. The crops were infected with a wheat rust organism also known as a fungus, which made the grain unusable. That same year, Margaret Newton, in her second year of university, was part of the first team to study wheat rust. From then on Newton would devote 25 years of her life to pathology and studying rust spores to save Canada’s wheat. In 1922 Newton was

Ernest McCulloch assisted with the discovery of stem cells.

Proving that stem cells exist: the experiments that changed how we understand the human body

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Dr. Ernest McCulloch began studying the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body, he was not looking to discover the source of blood cells. But as he examined the mice used in the study, McCulloch noticed small collections of the cells, growing sort of like bacteria. Through ingenuity and hard work, McCulloch and his partner, Dr. James Till, were the first to show the world that we could understand and maybe even use this fundamental

Arthur McDonald in 2015. Author: Bengt Nyman.

Keys to the sun

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Neutrinos are tiny particles produced through the decay of radioactive elements. They also hold a key to understanding the sun. Arthur McDonald was the one to recognize this. In 1989, he headed a team at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The Observatory was a large neutrino detector built two kilometres beneath earth’s surface in a mine in in Sudbury, Ontario. McDonald’s team was able to show that neutrinos have mass. They also helped prove that

Helen Sawyer Hogg devoted her life to the stars and studying globular clusters. She wrote a column for the Toronto Star for 30 years called With The Stars.

The stars belong to everyone

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Helen Sawyer Hogg spent a lifetime gazing at the stars. After witnessing her first solar eclipse, her passion for astronomy was unstoppable. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she married Frank Hogg, a Canadian, in 1930. A year later she received her doctorate and the two of them moved to Victoria, B.C. Her husband, also an astronomer, landed a job working at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria. But the Great Depression had hit hard

Harold Elford Johns asked the NRC to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes to treat cancer.

The bomb that saves lives

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program In 2009, Ontario’s Chalk River nuclear laboratory closed for maintenance. This meant that the largest producer of medical isotopes in the world was turned off and supply plummeted, causing significant delays in medical treatments. This event underscored how important Canada’s role in nuclear medicine has been ever since physicist Dr. Harold Elford Johns asked the National Research Council to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes in 1949. Cobalt-60 is

John Alexander Hopps helped to invent the artificial pacemaker to regulate the heart.

Engineering & Technology

Creating a new kind of heart beat

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program The pacemaker is a device that helps to stimulate the heart, thus saving lives. But surprisingly, this remarkable discovery was made unintentionally. It began with two Canadian surgeons, Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow and Dr. John C. Callaghan, who were researching cold heart surgery, a method of operating while cooling a body to slow the heart rate. However, their research led the two men to observe that pulses of electrical current from a probe could

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The sackbut, and other surprising inventions by Hugh Le Caine

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program Hugh Le Caine is considered one of the “heroes” of electronic music – an unusual reputation for a scientist. Le Caine studied music as a child, and also tried building his own instruments. He envisioned beautiful sounds that he believed could be achieved if new electronic instruments were developed. Later, Le Caine studied physics at Queen’s University, equipping him to apply science to music in remarkable ways. After graduating in 1939 he began

Sir William Logan founded the Geographical Survey of Canada. His work laid the foundation for mapping the entire country. Source: Library and Archives Canada.

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Laying the foundations for mapping Canada

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Sir William Logan discovered his skill at mapping out of necessity. Born in Montreal to Scottish parents, he was sent to Edinburg to get the best education possible at only 16. But despite his high marks, Logan dropped out of university at the end of his first year to take a job at his uncle’s business. He started as an accountant, but when opportunity struck in 1831, Logan took on a management position at a coal and copper mine in Wales. Logan

Chalmers Jack Machenzie.

Chalmers Jack Mackenzie: ambitious on Canada’s behalf after WWII

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Patrick Jodoin Algonquin College Journalism Program The years during and after World War II were a crucial time for scientific research and development in Canada. Chief among this era’s important figures was Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, who was president of the National Research Council from 1944 to 1952, and who played an instrumental role in forming some of the institutions that have shaped modern Canada. Initially appointed to the NRC in 1935 after a 17-year stint as Dean of Engineering at the

George Lawrence built the world’s second nuclear reactor.

Engineering & Technology

Harnessing a power: the story of the second nuclear reactor

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program As the curtain of World War II fell over Europe, George C. Laurence began working against the clock to harness the future of energy and warfare. He was going to build the world’s second nuclear reactor. Born in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Laurence graduated from Dalhousie University with a bachelor’s and master’s in physics. After completing his doctorate in England with the greatest minds in nuclear research, Laurence returned to Canada in 1930. He

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