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For the September edition, we explain how mathematics is an indispensable tool for space exploration, how honeybees are masters of geometry, and about the unbelievable uniqueness of a shuffled deck of cards.

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Cassandra Marion, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the August edition, they explain why insects are on their way to

I salute you, my reading friend. As you will had obviously noticed, the subject of our estradinary blog / bulletin / thingee for this beginning of August is foodish in nature. Let me kick off our story with two births taking place in Francueil, France, a village located more or less in the centre of that country: - that of Silvain Adrien Clément, on 16 April 1874, and - that of Rachel Marie Louise Guillot, on 8 December 1882. These two young people having joined in matrimony in 1901, the young

Yours truly would like to begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with an apology. Contrary to the gentlepersons agreement agreed to many moons ago, I did not include an agricultural topic among those published in April 2022 in said blog / bulletin / thingee. I hereby remedy this failure on my part with what follows. Please rest assured that the what follows in question is actually quite interesting. Really. Edwin Delevan Tillson was born in March 1825, in Normandale, Upper Canada

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Cassandra Marion, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the May edition, they explain the key to successful backyard

For the March edition, we explain how a soil fungus forced PEI Potatoes into quarantine, that a hidden ocean may cause Saturn’s moon Mimas to wobble, and how some animals have built in antifreeze.

Buongiorno, my reading friend. As part of the efforts initiated by yours truly to diversify the content of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I would like to offer you today a text, a short text, yes, yes, short, of an agricultural nature. Our story began in Italy, in April 1906 and September 1909, with the births of Francesco and Eugenio Gabriele Cassani. Their father, Paolo Cassani, was the owner of Società Anonima Paolo Cassani e figli, a small farm machinery manufacturing and repair firm which

For the July edition, we tackled organisms in our soil, what’s on the horizon for space tourism, and the fascinating link between nature and mental health.

As you may have noticed, I hope, my reading friend, our blog / bulletin / thingee regularly opens its columns to topics of an agricultural or food nature. Yours truly will not derogate from this rule in this month of June 2021. Thus, I hereby and heretofore offer you a peroration on a firm whose history was a brief and shining moment in the great adventure of the agricultural machinery industry of Québec / Canada. I hope once again that this text will be an exercise in minimising sesquipedalian