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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:

Patrick McGrath and Patricia Lingley-Pottie

Social Science & Culture

Patrick McGrath and Patricia Lingley-Pottie - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winners

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Patricia Lingley-Pottie and Patrick McGrath are the creators of the Strongest Families Institute, a non-profit organization that delivers evidence-based programs to children, youth and families through a unique distance-delivery system. Using proprietary software technology, trained coaches are able to connect with users by phone or via the Internet, thus allowing families greater flexibility when assessing services. Programs address common mental health and other issues impacting health and

Business & Economics

Paul Santerre - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Paul Santerre is a chemical engineer. He co-founded Interface Biologics Inc., a Toronto-based health technologies company. He invented Endexo tehchnology, a unique compound of surface-modifying macromolecules that are added to plastics during the manufacturing process of medical devices. The special coating helps reduce clotting when the devices are used to treat patients, reducing the risk of adverse reactions and potentially deadly complications. Now being used in commercialized products in

Marie-Odile Junker

Marie-Odile Junker - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Marie-Odile Junker is a linguistics professor who is active in Indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalisation. She uses a participatory-action research framework to work with communities and individuals interested in saving their language and seeing it thrive in the 21st century. She has developed several websites and online dictionaries for languages of the Algonquian family (Cree, Innu, Atikamekw). She is leading the co-creation of the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas: www.atlas

Business & Economics

David Brown - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

David Brown is a biotechnology entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for youth entrepreneurship in Canada’s biotechnology sector. Mr. Brown serves as the co-founder and COO of Chinova Bioworks and is the founder of MyCodev Group which he founded in order to resolve a lack of supply of chitosan, a valuable pharmaceutical ingredient that is essential in a wide variety of medical devices and drugs. Mr. Brown’s innovative technology produces chitosan directly from a fungal fermentation, a process

An adult male looks for seal pup lairs under the snow in western Hudson Bay (photo credit: David McGeachy)

The polar bear and the volcano

Environment and Climate Change Canada

When Environment and Climate Change Canada scientist emeritus Ian Stirling started polar bear research in western Hudson Bay in the 1980s, he never imagined that it would become the first research program in the world to demonstrate the effects of climate change on polar bears. Stirling started the research program simply because the scientific community didn’t know much about polar bears at the time. There was a need to answer some fundamental ecological questions. He and a small research team

Sidney Badgley: An Imaginative Canadian Architect

St. Catharines Museum

Sidney Badgley 1850 - 1917 BADGLEY, SIDNEY R. (28 May 1850-29 Apr. 1917), was a prominent church architect in the U.S. and Canada. He was born in Ontario, son of William Edwin and Nancy Rose Badgley. He was educated at public schools and private academies and apprenticed under R.C. Windeyer at an architectural office in Toronto. With the apprenticeship complete Badgley opened his own practice in 1886, but left for Cleveland in 1887 where he would work with one Mr.Wm. Nicklas. Badgley became well

Dr. Theophilus Mack

Social Science & Culture

Dr. Theophilus Mack - first doctor in Canada West to specialize in Women's Health

St. Catharines Museum

Dr. Theophilus Mack Canadian, Irish Theophilus Mack immigrated to Canada in 1832 with his parents. His father had been a minister of the Church of England. Mack was one of the first pupils of Upper Canada College. During the rebellion of 1837-38, he was a lieutenant in the Provincial Navy. Mack studied medicine in the Military Hospital at Amherstburg, graduating at Geneva College, New York in 1843. He obtained his provincial license in 1844 and settled in St. Catharines. He practiced medicine in

Dr. Lucius Ollie

Engineering & Technology

Dr. Lucius Oille: The Father of St. Catharines' Waterworks

St. Catharines Museum

Dr. Lucius Oille Dr. Lucius Oille was born in 1830 and was one of St. Catharines most prominent citizens. He served as a member of council for several years before becoming mayor in 1878. He was only the second mayor of the city and first chairman of the waterworks. He did not stand for re-election; however he continued to contribute to the city. Oille was a physician and owned the first x-ray machine in St. Catharine. Dr. Oille was involved in dozens of city projects, such as the organization

Engineering & Technology

Oliver Phelps - Early Visionary and Developer

St. Catharines Museum

Oliver Phelps Esq. American/Canadian, 1779 - 1851 Oliver Phelps was born December 12, 1779 in Simsbury, Harford, Connecticut. He married Abigail St. John on January 16, 1800. In 1825 he and Abigail relocated to Merritton, Ontario and later in 1829 to St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Phelps was the chief builder and constructionist of the First Welland Canal. During the construction of the 1st Welland Canal, he helped build the “Deep Cut” and the original thirty four locks, the aqueduct across the

Fred Pattison - Early Aviator and Clever Inventor

St. Catharines Museum

Fred Pattison 1897 - 1983 Fred Pattison was born in Niagara Falls, New York in 1897. He was raised and lived his life in St. Catharines. He invented improvements and patented a vehicle wheel pulling jack. The patent was issued 16 October 1917. In 1928 he helped found the St. Catharines Flying Club and was also instrumental in establishing an airport in Niagara. During World War II, Pattison was club manager when the facilities were used for flight training, No. 9 Elementary Flight Training

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