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A scan of the damaged cover of a catalogue. On the page behind, you can see handwriting in pencil showing through.
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Agriculture

Uncovering the age-old angst of love

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Feb 11, 2020
Romantic song lyrics are not exactly what you’d expect to find in the pages of an old, agricultural catalogue. But as Ingenium staff members have learned, artifacts can be full of surprises.
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Agriculture
Sciences
Space

3 things you should know — February edition

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Feb 4, 2020
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — 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 three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the February edition, our science advisors
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Agriculture
Food
Space

3 things you should know — December edition

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Dec 4, 2019
In the December column, we dig into the science of beer, offer tips for viewing the Geminids meteor shower, and bust myths about alcohol in hot drinks.
The Dairy Barn at the Central Experimental Farm in 1894. It is now part of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.
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Agriculture

Historic barns bring architecture to life for students

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Nov 18, 2019
The Central Experimental Farm (CEF) in Ottawa is known for agricultural ingenuity and scientific discovery, as a national historic site and urban greenspace, and for being the home of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Architecture, however, is not typically the first thing people associate with this agricultural oasis in Ottawa.
Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm
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Agriculture

Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm

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Oct 30, 2019
Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app.
A female museum guide supervises two young students, who are reaching out to stroke a large, white rabbit on the table in front of them.
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Agriculture

New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

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Oct 28, 2019
It’s hard to tune out a science lesson when there’s a chicken on your desk. Thanks to a new mobile education program from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, teachers in the Ottawa area can bring a bit of farm life — and a lot of excitement — right into the classroom.
A black-and-white photo of a man standing outside with his left hand on the seat of a wooden bicycle.
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Agriculture

Hand-built bicycle tells a historical story of a colourful, Ontario teen

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Oct 24, 2019
The Billings Estate National Historic Site is currently displaying a curious wooden bicycle. It was hand built in the late 1890s by a teenager named James Henry Blair, using materials scavenged off his father’s Gloucester farm. Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum give us a rare chance to explore the mindset of this young inventor as he puzzled through the process of how to build a bicycle with limited resources.
The cover of a recipe book, featuring a yellow box of Margene on a blue background.
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Agriculture

Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

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Oct 11, 2019
The production of cheap margarine was a boon to poorer consumers. Although some countries adopted it easily, other countries tried to eliminate it or limit its availability. In the 1870s, margarine began to spread (pardon the pun) to other countries.
A number of images of plants are superimposed over an aerial view of a farmer's field.
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Agriculture

Practising science communication at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Oct 7, 2019
Born and educated in Mumbai, the culturally diverse metropolis of India, I moved to Canada in 2018 as a new permanent resident to pursue my passion of making science more accessible and building trust in the brand, “Made in India.”
A ship in front of a large grain elevator; the sun rises in the background.
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Agriculture

Many voices: Oral histories of Canada’s grain elevators

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Sep 23, 2019
Grain elevators have long been a symbol of agricultural strength for the Canadian prairies. But what was it actually like to work in the grain elevators? As a practicum student from Carleton University, I have been pondering this question while researching a grain elevator model in the agricultural collection of Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation. Fortunately, I was introduced to Friends of Grain Elevators (FOGE), a non-profit group of volunteers that celebrate grain elevators