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Uncovering the age-old angst of love

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
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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Virtual tour: Explore a Dairy Farm

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Oct 30, 2019
Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? Check out this virtual tour!
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New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
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.
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Behind the scenes: Meet an organic grain farmer

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Sep 19, 2019
Shelley and Tony Spruit are going against the grain. After more than a quarter century of growing wheat, soybeans, and corn — mainly for animal feed and ethanol — the couple began experimenting with alternatives on their family owned and operated farm near Ottawa, planting seeds from corn and barley varieties not traditionally grown in Ontario. The move is reflective of their agricultural philosophy, and Shelley Spruit believes it’s critically important to educate consumers about what they’re
Cariole collected by Marius Barbeau in 1936, Staint-Pascale-de Kamouraska (now Saint Pascal). Ingenium Museums, artifact No. 1967.0197.
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Recovering the lost artifacts of ethnologist Marius Barbeau

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Denise Steeves
Aug 21, 2019
You might not imagine that volunteer work at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum would involve unravelling a mystery. But in truth, it can!
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Beyond the beans: the advantages of coffee by-products

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Connor Wilkie
Ingenium
May 15, 2019
An Ottawa-based coffee roaster is hoping to give consumers a wake-up call about coffee waste and by-products.
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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.
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Virtual reality brings the farm life experience to students worldwide

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 27, 2019
Field trip planning just got a whole lot easier. Thanks to the power of virtual reality, teachers based anywhere in the world can now take their students on an educational tour of the dairy barn at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum — which is also a working farm in Ottawa, Canada. The museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app. Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, who works as an
Two men stand in a dirt field; one bores into the soil while the other looks on.
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Excavating Canadian soil science history

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Peter Anderson
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Dec 5, 2018
In honour of World Soil Day, this blog post reports on a collaborative research project that explores the history of soil science in Canada. Launched in June 2018, the project documents the history of Canadian soil scientists and their research programs, as well as their documentary and artefactual heritage. This project was generously funded by the Canadian Soil Information Service at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
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The Canadian economy and the Second World War

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 8, 2018
Canada’s economy underwent dramatic changes during the Second World War, as Britain looked overseas for new sources of food, lumber, minerals, and other resources. While the 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, the outbreak of war spurred the greatest growth the country has ever known. Between 1939 and 1945, Canada’s gross national product (GNP) more than doubled.
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