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National Volunteer Week

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Every April, National Volunteer Week offers the opportunity to celebrate volunteerism at all three Ingenium museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

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Volunteer week: The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum offers an unusual museum experience

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Connor Wilkie
Ingenium
Apr 12, 2019
The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum — a working farm in the heart of the Ottawa — is not your typical museum. So it’s fitting that volunteering at the museum isn't your typical experience either.
Bill Weiler, a member of the Bytown Railway Society, stains wood planks in preparation for the restoration of the 1924 daycoach.
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Volunteer Week: Bytown Railway Society preserves a passion for locomotives

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Connor Wilkie
Ingenium
Apr 10, 2019
Robert Day stands by the Lockheed 10E Electra, made famous by Amelia Earhart’s attempted trip around the world.
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Volunteer week: An inside look at the volunteers at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Connor Wilkie
Ingenium
Apr 8, 2019
Terrie Pereira
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Aviation
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Finding a place where passion takes flight

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 20, 2018
In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Terrie Pereira – who talks about her volunteer work with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in her own words. By Terrie Pereira I started volunteering with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in the summer of 2013. Around the same time, I was taking up flying lessons again at the Rockliffe Flying Club, after taking a
Patrick Legault
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Where everybody knows your name

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 19, 2018
In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Patrick Legault – a volunteer with the Canada Science and Technology Museum. When Patrick Legault began volunteering with the artifact handlers at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2014, he was immediately struck by the strong sense of team spirit amongst the staff.
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Giving wings to Canada’s aviation stories

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 18, 2018
In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Bill Upton – a volunteer with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. As a young boy in the 1960s, Bill Upton loved aviation so much that he spent his spare time writing letters to Canadian aviation manufacturers. “I would write letters multiple times a month, asking for photographs or lithographs of their products,”
Manel Zeghal
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Social Science & Culture
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Finding a way to make a difference

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Apr 17, 2018
In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Manel Zeghal – who currently volunteers with the Canada Agriculture and Food Musuem. By Manel Zeghal I used to live across the street from the burial site of my personal hero, Tommy Douglas. The famous words of the man dubbed as “The Greatest Canadian” are etched into his grave marker, “Courage, my friends, 'tis not too
National Volunteer Week
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Three cheers for Ingenium’s volunteers

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 16, 2018
It’s National Volunteer Week 2018, and here at Ingenium we have so much to celebrate! Over the coming week, the Ingenium Channel will be profiling just a few of our amazing volunteers. Today, we take a bird’s-eye view of volunteers at Ingenium – and why they mean so much. The old proverb, “Many hands make light work” seems especially fitting in the context of volunteerism at Ingenium. At each of our three museums – the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and

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