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Walter Thomas Leavens examining the cups which drove the agitator mounted inside the hopper of the Piper J-5 Cub Cruiser light / private airplane flown by Leavens Brothers Air Services Limited. Anon., “Crop Dusting with a Cub.” Canadian Aviation, July 1945, 50.

Weed’em and Reap: Leavens Brothers Air Services Limited and the early days of agricultural aviation in Ontario / Canada after the Second World War

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Are you a vegetarian, my reading friend, or a vegan? Omnivore, perhaps? Or frutarian, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian? No matter. For thousands of years, people all over our spherical, yes, yes spherical, planet have depended on the crops they grew to sustain them. Agriculture, as you undoubtedly know, appeared about 12 000 years ago in a region of the Earth known as the Fertile Crescent, a crescent region anchored on the Nile, in modern day Egypt, at one end, and on the

An open freezer filled with vegetables.

Share your experiences: Food security during COVID-19

Molly McCullough

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

For many Canadians, COVID-19 has made food security a top-of-mind concern.

Insert from Jell-O recipe book showing images of syllabub, maple walnut Jell-O, cherry Jell-O, stuffed tomato salad, pineapple mouse, and marbled Jell-O. (“JELLO- 10 c A PACKAGE”)

Retro recipes: Cookbooks from the Ingenium collection

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Conservators Erin Secord and Jessica Lafrance-Hwang noticed a lively exchange of vintage recipes on social media and suggested we share some from Ingenium’s trade literature collection.

A woman sweeps some straw from the floor of a barn, next to several cows.

Volunteer week: Contributing to something “out of the ordinary”

Francine Bouchard

In honour of National Volunteer Week, the Ingenium Channel highlights how a volunteer at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum contributes to “something out of the ordinary.”

historic image of a woman counting airplane propellers

Women in STEM: A look at the incredible contributions of women through Ingenium’s collection

Christine Clouthier

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting some historically significant items from Ingenium’s collection intrinsically linked of the incredible contributions of women in STEM.

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

Uncovering the age-old angst of love

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.

The Dairy Barn at the Central Experimental Farm in 1894. It is now part of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Historic barns bring architecture to life for students

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.

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.

New museum program brings the farm right into the classroom

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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.

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

Camas Clowater-Eriksson

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.

Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

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