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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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Elsie MacGill during her CCF tenure. Source: Library and Archives Canada, reference number: PA-139429

Elsie MacGill, Canada’s Amelia Earhart

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Since the first practical airplane was developed by the Wright Brothers in 1905, aeronautical engineers have strived to make the best possible aircrafts for love and war. Incidentally, 1905 was the same year that Canadian scientist Elizabeth MacGill was born. Today, she is also known as Elsie, or the Queen of the Hurricanes. Most notable for her work during WWII, MacGill was chief of engineering in the development of the Hawker Hurricanes. She

George. J. Klein.

Engineering & Technology

Klein, the man who invented everything from the electric wheelchair to the STEM antenna

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program George J. Klein was one of Canada’s most productive inventors of the 20th Century. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, his father, a watch and jewellery store owner, initially sparked Klein’s interest in mechanical design. Klein studied at the University of Toronto and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in applied science in 1928. A year later he was offered a job as a researcher for the National Research Council of Canada. Klein would remain with the NRC

Raymond Urgel Lemieux discovered how to synthesize sugar. Source: University of Alberta.

Raymond Lemieux: leading the carbohydrate revolution

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Raymond Urgel Lemieux may not have climbed a mountain to gain fame, but the chemistry professor’s widely acclaimed discovery of synthesizing sucrose, (table sugar) is largely considered the “Mount Everest of organic chemistry.” In 1953, Lemieux succeeded in synthesizing sugar while at the National Research Council’s Prairie Regional Laboratory. This was remarkable because it allowed us to understand sugar’s molecular, three-dimensional structure

Frere Marie-Victorin created an inventory of all of Québec’s plants in 1935. Author: Albert Dumas. Source: Quebec National Library and Archives, reference number P1000, S4, D83, PM39.

The self-taught botanist who inventoried Quebec’s plants

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Although he never attained a university degree, Québec-born frère Marie-Victorin (né Conrad Kirouac) became a revered botanist, both in North America and in Europe. Marie-Victorin discovered his passion for botany during a fight with tuberculosis in 1903, and began teaching himself everything he needed to know. He read over 40 years’ worth of scientific journals on the subject. In 1913, he traveled to the municipality of Témiscouata in Quebec

Electrons are a scientist’s best friend

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Most Canadians have looked through a light microscope in their high school science class. They got to magnify particles on plates that were invisible to the naked eye. But those microscopes have limits. Light rays only magnify up to 2,000 times. Today, electron microscopes allow two million times of magnification because electron waves are shorter, leading to higher enhancement and resolution. The first practical electron microscope came about

Gerald Hatch (left) was able to grow his engineering firm into a company of over 12,000. Source: McGill University.

Earth & Environment

Gerald Hatch’s global impact

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Canada is known for its natural resources and the ways that we have extracted them from our countryside. And because of stewards like Gerald Hatch guiding the technological advances, responsible use and sustainability have taken a far higher priority. Hatch helped create new metallurgical practises, reduced the impact on our environment and created one of the most successful engineering firms in Canada. Hatch grew up in eastern Ontario, attended

Portrait of Gerald Heffernan: Source: Whitby Library/Ireland Studio.

Engineering & Technology

Heffernan, the mini mill pioneer

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Even growing up, Gerald Heffernan had the mind of an entrepreneur. One of his early business ventures was selling apples to a jam factory. Later, his entrepreneurial spirit led him to introduce new technologies into the steel manufacturing industry – most notably pioneering self-contained steel production facilities known as “mini-mills.” These efficient mills account for 200 million tons of the world’s overall 700 million ton steel output

Portrait of Sir Sanford Fleming. Source: archive.org

Rail Transportation

A question of time

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Father Time might be just a personification of time, but Sir Sandford Fleming, who is considered the father of standard time, is most certainly real. Fleming came up with the concept of standard time while he was building the Canadian Pacific Railway. With all the different local times, travelling across the country would be chaotic and make it impossible to maintain a schedule. Thus, the railway needed standardized times for train arrivals and

Sylvia Fedoruk’s ground breaking work in physics has brought a lot of pride to Canada and to the science community of Saskatchewan.

Engineering & Technology

Adventures in radiation

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Most of us have been touched by cancer in one way or another. It’s also likely that radiation treatment was used in helping with recovery. Fifty per cent of cancer patients have undergone radiation treatment. This is because radiation attacks the DNA of cancer cells so they can’t reproduce. Canadian scientist Sylvia Fedoruk devoted her life’s work to helping people with radiation techniques. Scientists have been using radiation to fight cancer

Reginald Fessenden not only invented a way to transmit the human voice, but made the very first radio broadcast.

Reginald Fessenden, the first voice of radio

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The first radio broadcast in history was on Christmas Eve in 1906. Crackling slightly, but still audible, the voice belonged to Reginald Fessenden, also known as the father of radio. He was born in Knowlton, Quebec, but his family moved to Ontario not long afterwards. Growing up, one of Fessenden’s heroes was Thomas Edison. And, a few years later, due to unstoppable determination and a knack for wiring, he even ended up assisting Edison at his

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