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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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L. Bruce Robertson beside Canadian Red Cross truck, ca. [1914-1918] L. Bruce Robertson fonds, F 1374, Archives of Ontario, I0050290 Copyright: Queen’s Printer for Ontario

Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson and blood transfusion in the trenches of World War I

Canadian Blood Services

As Canada celebrates 150 years we look back on Canadian innovations in transfusion medicine. A series of posts feature remarkable Canadian progress in transfusion medicine — past, present and future. Modern Canadian blood banking and transfusion services can trace their origins to the trenches of World War I, thanks to the efforts of transfusion pioneer Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson. Robertson enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps to support the British soldiers fighting in Europe. Along

Basketball / Bettman/Contributor/Getty Images

Sports & Gaming

Basketball

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The afterlife of a peach basket. Create a new team sport that demands agility, speed, and accuracy from its players, not just strength alone. Make sure it can be played both safely and indoors. Oh, one more thing: come up with it in fourteen days. James Naismith’s answer to his boss’s difficult demand was basketball. An instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, Naismith drew inspiration for his new game from one he played as a child in the small town of

Blood-Typing vials

Meet Canada's Blood-Typing Pioneers

Canadian Blood Services

Blood-typing pioneers Canada’s blood transfusion service and the patients who benefit from it owe a great deal to pioneering innovation in the field of blood typing. Work by immunohematologists Marie Crookston at the University of Toronto and Dr. Bruce Chown, Dr. Jack Bowman and team at the Winnipeg Rh Laboratory in the mid-twentieth century advanced clinical knowledge of transfusion reactions due to blood cell antibody responses. Their studies made the transfusion service aware of these

Caesar / Jeff Wasserman/Shutterstock.com

Caesar

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The Canadian cocktail. Walter Chell was up for a challenge. In 1969, the bartender at Calgary’s Westin Hotel was asked to create a signature drink to mark the opening of a local Italian eatery. He stewed on the task for three months, experimenting with various concoctions before coming up with a novelty that combined vodka, hand-mashed clams, tomato juice, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauces, salt, and pepper, all garnished with a celery stick. The mixologist called his libation a Caesar, a nod to

Wonderbra / © McCord Museum, Montreal

Household Technology

Wonderbra

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The power of the push-up. Some products are so potent their names have defined a category. Think Kleenex for tissue, Teflon for non-stick, and Vaseline for petroleum jelly. The same goes for Wonderbra and women’s intimate apparel. Wonderbra was the 1964 brainchild of designer Louise Poirier of the Canadian Corset Company. The product’s name hinted at the revolution her brassiere would spark in the age when four women in ten still wore girdles. To its credit, the Montreal business realized modern

Road Transportation

The Oldsmobile - a Relic of Canada's Car Manufacturing History

St. Catharines Museum

The car we have on display in the St. Catharines’ museum is representative of the automotive industry in St. Catharines, as it is the first style of car built in the City and was manufactured in the first plant in Canada designed and built specifically for automobile manufacturing. Packard electric built this car on license from Oldsmobile for the distribution in Canada and the British Empire. The Packard Electric co. re-located to St. Catharines in order to take advantage of the close proximity

Marine Transportation

Louis Shickluna- Designing Ships for the Early Welland Canals

St. Catharines Museum

Louis Scicluna was born in 1808 to Therese and Joseph Scicluna on the island of Malta. Joseph was a dockyard worker, and both him and Therese encouraged their son to attend school and achieve good grades. Louis, however, showed no interest in academics and faired poorly in class. Afraid that his son would not find a career, Joseph Scicluna took his son Louis to the shipyard in hopes that Louis would develop an interest in becoming a shipwright. Joseph’s plan worked, and for the rest of his life

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback

Household Technology

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback- Inventor of the First Modern Zipper

St. Catharines Museum

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback 1880-1954 Swedish-born and raised, Gideon Sundback received his technical education as an electrical engineer in Germany. He emigrated to America in 1905 and the following year began to work on a solution to problems with the hook and eye fastener. Various improvements were devised including the Plako (introduced 1908), Hookless #1 (the first ‘hookless’ fastener- 1912), and Hookless #2- the modern zipper (1913). Hookless #2 was the design concept upon which future

Immunity against disease

Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics

Our body’s immune system is by and large a smooth-running operation. This complex system of organs, tissues and specialized cells destroys foreign invaders and rids the body of damaged and diseased cells. However, there are times when infections or diseases evade this protective process; one example is cancer. In some cases, it’s possible to give the immune system a boost. Scientists have been exploring ways to do this, and over the past several years, they have successfully developed drugs that

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IMAX

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The really big show. Moviegoers want to be amazed continually by what they see, and moviemakers try to keep up and even get ahead by creating bigger, wider, clearer pictures. Today’s truly big picture is IMAX. Before this system, filmmakers couldn’t use the bigger film stock required to display images that would fill a viewer’s field of vision. Seventy-millimetre film, which is ten times larger than regular film, would shake when run through a camera and projector, distorting the image these

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