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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.

507 Stories:

Douglas Copp was Canadian biochemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and found a protein to help cure bone disease. Source: The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Irma Coucill (artist).

Douglas Copp discovers a way to treat osteoporosis

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The Manhattan Project, a top secret military plan to produce the first U.S. atomic bomb, was created in 1942. Only a year later, a young, highly-qualified Canadian biochemist was recruited to the team. Douglas Harold Copp was still in his twenties, but he already held a medical doctor degree with honours from the University of Toronto, as well as a second doctorate in biochemistry. His father was a family physician, which was likely what inspired

Through the work of James Milton Ham and his commission, the predecessor to the Occupational Health and Safety Act was born.

Earth & Environment

Working for the weekend: how job safety is rooted in science

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1974 a three-week wildcat strike at the Elliot Lake uranium mines provoked the Ontario government to action. Workers were suffering from the effects of working in hazardous environment. And the threat of injury did not end after leaving work; years of inhaling silica dust often caused the miners to suffer from silicosis and lung cancer. A professor from Toronto was asked to helm the inquiry that was called for during the workers’ job action

Ursula Franklin

Earth & Environment

Scientist promotes peace after her war experience

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program After surviving the Holocaust in Germany, Ursula Martius Franklin used her scientific knowledge to promote peace and prosperity in any way possible. Four years after World War II, Franklin moved to Canada with PhD in experimental physics from Berlin. In 1967 she began working at the University of Toronto in the engineering department and eventually became a full professor in 1984. It was the highest honour the university could give her and she was

Physicist Gerhard Herzberg photographed in London, England in 1952. He believed in pursuing science for the love of it and the desire of expanding knowledge, rather than focusing on its “usefulness.”

Gerhard Herzberg, uncovering the mysteries of science

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program At 12 years old, Gerhard Herzberg made a homemade telescope with one of his friends. The two boys ground glass lenses to fit into handmade mounts in a metal tube. When the sky was clear, they would take the streetcar to a park in Hamburg, Germany, and look at the planets through their home-made telescope. This was just the beginning of Herzberg’s long, brilliant career. For him, science was a mystery that he wanted to solve. In 1933 Herzberg was

John William Dawson, taken in Montreal, Quebec in 1884. Author: Wm. Notman & Son.

Earth & Environment

John William Dawson, the man who made McGill

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program Sir John William Dawson was just as comfortable teaching in a classroom at McGill University as he was precariously scaling a cliff in search of rock samples. A renowned geologist, Dawson was the first Canadian scientist to gain a worldwide reputation for his work. His efforts, both in research and as the principal of McGill, helped lay the foundations for the Canadian scientific community during the 19th Century. A modernist in both science and

Armand Bombardier, seated at the wheel of the Bombardier military snowmobile in 1943. Credit: Library and Archives Canada reference number WRM 276.

J. Armand Bombardier

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Patrick Jodoin Algonquin College Journalism From a young age, Joseph-Armand Bombardier had an interest in mechanics and wanted to find ways to solve transportation problems caused by harsh Canadian winters. In fact, by the time he was a teenager, Bombardier had already built his first snowmobile. Bombardier was born in 1907 in rural Quebec. His parents sent him to a seminary to become a priest, but after three years, Bombardier’s preoccupation with engines prevailed and he began studying

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1994.

Making the universe sing

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Have you ever thought about how scientists figure out with such detail what happens, even at the smallest of scales? No microscope has ever been able to resolve the interactions at the atomic level and scientists can’t even see the invisible lines of energy and magnetism. How did we reveal the structure and patterns of condensed materials like liquids, crystals and proteins? This was made possible with the help of Alberta native Bertram Neville

Pierre Dansereau was both a scientist and a scientific communicator.

Earth & Environment

Connecting the dots: discovering our ecology

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Canada is home to many of the influential voices that speak against the unrestricted use of our world’s limited resources. One of those voices is Pierre Dansereau. In a time where ecology was not a popular avenue of academic research, Dansereau helped introduce the concept of the ecosystem to a new generation. Dansereau took geography, geology and climatology and combined the different aspects that each reveal to show the connections and chains

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Today it’s taken for granted that we can document our life using photos and videos. But these quick, effortless snapshots would not have been possible without Willard Boyle’s invention of the charged-couple device, or CCD. The CCD was invented during a brainstorming session between him and his colleague, George Smith, at New Jersey’s Bell Labs. The device is a grid of semiconductors that can be used to collect photons and convert them to

Alexander Graham Bell was highly interested in hearing and speech, a passion which led to his invention of the telephone. Source: Library and Archives Canada. Author: Moffett Studio.

Engineering & Technology

Playing it by ear

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Alexander Graham Bell was interested in both speech and hearing, a pursuit which was likely spurred by the fact that both his mother and wife suffered from hearing loss. Bell first worked with his father, who was a speech therapist, and then took a position in Boston teaching deaf children to speak. One of his methods was to hold a balloon to the chest of his patients so they could hear sound. It was these experiments that led to the invention of

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