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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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From farm to table, Dr. Oats’ life was a contribution towards Canadian agriculture

From farm to table, Dr. Oats’ life was a contribution towards Canadian agriculture

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Dr. Vernon Burrows has a storied history in the agriculture field. He invented a type of oat known as “The Rice of the Prairies,” otherwise known as Cavena Nuda – a product that was not only nutritious and delicious, but also had the potential to change the world. The Cavena Nuda is bred to not have any hull or hair when it leaves the farmer’s field. As there is no need for milling, the environmental impact and costs are significantly reduced

Dr. Norman Bethune stands to the right of a Canadian Blood transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War. Source: Library and Archives Canada, reference number: PA-117423.

An innovative surgeon ahead of his time

Algonquin college

Amelia Buchanan Algonquin College Journalism Program Every day of the Great Depression, Henry Norman Bethune saw people living in poverty who could not afford to pay doctors. So he opened a clinic for the unemployed in 1935 and treated patients for free. Bethune firmly believed in universal health care, but at the time the idea was dismissed as too radical. He never lived to see his dream of socialized health care in Canada come true. The Montreal surgeon specialized in tuberculosis, a disease

Dr. Maude Abbott

A doctor’s life: not for the faint of heart

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Dr. Maude Abbott was world famous for her work in congenital heart disease. Also known as the “beneficent tornado,” she had an unstoppable energy. Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec, Abbott lost her parents as an infant. In 1890 she became the first woman to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from McGill University. After graduating at the top of her class, she was denied access to the McGill’s medical school. Unnerved by her rejection, Abbott studied

Frederick Banting

The father of insulin

Algonquin college

Shawna O’Neill Algonquin College Journalism Program After suffering the loss of a good friend to diabetes, a deadly disease at the time, Frederick Banting’s interest in medicine evolved, leading him to develop one of the greatest Canadian discoveries: insulin. During the summer of 1921 Frederick Banting and his colleague Charles Best successfully isolated insulin, using a professor’s empty laboratory at the University of Toronto. With the aid of Dr. James Collip, insulin was then successfully

Canada’s 1st open heart surgery

Engineering & Technology

Canada's 1st open heart surgery

University of Alberta

In 1956, John Callaghan conducted Canada’s 1st successful open-heart surgery at the University of Alberta (UAlberta) Hospital. While the surgery performed may be ‘simple’ by today’s standards, at the time it pushed the boundaries of modern heart surgery and knowledge. Pioneering advances In 1946, John Callaghan graduated from University of Toronto. While there, he and fellow cardia surgeon Wilfred Bigelow developed new cardiac surgical techniques to slow the heart for heart surgery. In 1951, the

Protecting Canada & the world’s fresh water resources

Earth & Environment

Protecting Canada and the world’s fresh water resources

University of Alberta

Retired University of Alberta professor, David Schindler, is one of Canada’s most powerful environmental advocates. In the 1960s he identified that detergent phosphates were polluting and killing Canada’s lakes, and in the ‘70s and ‘80s he identified acid rain as the cause of widespread fish deaths. In 1968, he became a founding director of the Canada’s Experimental Lakes Project. He and his team discovered that the Great Lakes and other fresh water bodies in Canada and the US were being

Canadian Museum of History, 2005.3.1; gift of the Gander Airport Authority

Prismasteel Furniture System

Canadian Museum of History

Throughout the 1960s, airport terminals across the country featured Canadian-made furniture and artwork. Most of these buildings included variations of a seating design created by Robin Bush. After studies at the Vancouver School of Art and a stint in the Canadian Navy during World War II, Bush (and his then business partner, Earle Morrison) began producing furniture of his own design. In 1957, Canadian Office and School Furniture in Preston, Ontario, began producing Bush’s Prismasteel line. The

Ernest Rutherford

He "Touched The Ghost of Matter"

McGill University

When Ernest Rutherford became the first person to split ever split the atom, he said that he had “broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.” But splitting the atom was only one of the historic firsts brought about by his work in chemistry and physics. Rutherford, who was born into a farming family in New Zealand and attended Cambridge University on a scholarship, came to work as a professor at McGill University in 1898. It was there that he opened up the field of atomic physics by

Dr. William Osler

Sending Medical Students Into "An Uncharted Sea"

McGill University

Imagine being treated by a newly minted doctor who had never treated a flesh-and-blood patient before. Imagine a young doctor whose had only read about medicine in books. Until Dr. William Osler began teaching medicine at McGill University, that’s how doctors learned their practice: from books. Dr. Osler began the now-standard practice of residencies – in which medical students are paired with experienced doctors and treat patients. “To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea,”

John Peters Humphrey

Social Science & Culture

His Words Became The "Conscience of Mankind"

McGill University

John Peters Humphrey, lawyer and law professor at McGill University, authored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the document commissioned by the United Nations and adopted as its mission statement in 1948. It’s widely considered one of the single most influential documents of the 20th century, referred to as “the conscience of mankind” by Pope John Paul II. But for over a decade, a co-author, Rene Cassin, was given full credit as its creator – even winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

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