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Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback

Household Technology

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback- Inventor of the First Modern Zipper

St. Catharines Museum

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback 1880-1954 Swedish-born and raised, Gideon Sundback received his technical education as an electrical engineer in Germany. He emigrated to America in 1905 and the following year began to work on a solution to problems with the hook and eye fastener. Various improvements were devised including the Plako (introduced 1908), Hookless #1 (the first ‘hookless’ fastener- 1912), and Hookless #2- the modern zipper (1913). Hookless #2 was the design concept upon which future

Business & Economics

Audra Renyi - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Audra Renyi is the executive director of the non-profit World Wide Hearing and the founder of earAccess. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street dealing with private equity firms. Ms. Renyi has worked with Doctors Without Borders, in Chad; in Rwanda she served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and she worked as director of development at Canada World Youth. World Wide Hearing Foundation uses affordable technology, market incentives and rapid training to help underprivileged people

Business & Economics

Paul Santerre - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Paul Santerre is a chemical engineer. He co-founded Interface Biologics Inc., a Toronto-based health technologies company. He invented Endexo tehchnology, a unique compound of surface-modifying macromolecules that are added to plastics during the manufacturing process of medical devices. The special coating helps reduce clotting when the devices are used to treat patients, reducing the risk of adverse reactions and potentially deadly complications. Now being used in commercialized products in

Marie-Odile Junker

Marie-Odile Junker - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Marie-Odile Junker is a linguistics professor who is active in Indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalisation. She uses a participatory-action research framework to work with communities and individuals interested in saving their language and seeing it thrive in the 21st century. She has developed several websites and online dictionaries for languages of the Algonquian family (Cree, Innu, Atikamekw). She is leading the co-creation of the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas: www.atlas

Business & Economics

David Brown - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

David Brown is a biotechnology entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for youth entrepreneurship in Canada’s biotechnology sector. Mr. Brown serves as the co-founder and COO of Chinova Bioworks and is the founder of MyCodev Group which he founded in order to resolve a lack of supply of chitosan, a valuable pharmaceutical ingredient that is essential in a wide variety of medical devices and drugs. Mr. Brown’s innovative technology produces chitosan directly from a fungal fermentation, a process

Engineering & Technology

Oliver Phelps - Early Visionary and Developer

St. Catharines Museum

Oliver Phelps Esq. American/Canadian, 1779 - 1851 Oliver Phelps was born December 12, 1779 in Simsbury, Harford, Connecticut. He married Abigail St. John on January 16, 1800. In 1825 he and Abigail relocated to Merritton, Ontario and later in 1829 to St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Phelps was the chief builder and constructionist of the First Welland Canal. During the construction of the 1st Welland Canal, he helped build the “Deep Cut” and the original thirty four locks, the aqueduct across the

The William Hamilton Merritt Monument

Business & Economics

The Honorable William Hamilton Merritt

St. Catharines Museum

(1793-1862) William Hamilton Merritt was born on July 3 1793 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. His father was Thomas Merritt V, U.E.L., son of Thomas Merritt IV, U.E.L., who landed in Canada in 1782. His mother was Mary Hamilton (1761-1843). William Hamilton Merritt had seven siblings: Thomas VI (died in infancy); Amy (b. 1782, died in infancy); Phoebe (b.1784, died in infancy); Caroline Matilda (1791-1824); Anna Maria (1797-1850); and Susan (1801-1866). Merritt’s father Thomas V

The Next 150 Years of Canadian Youth Innovation

Business & Economics

The Next 150 Years of Canadian Youth Innovation

Mark Kryshtalskyj

The Next 150 Years of Canadian Youth Innovation 18 MAY 2017 Happy Youth Innovation Day. Earlier this week, Michele Romanow visited the League office to film the Next Level with another great Canadian entrepreneur, Mike Serbinis. It immediately conjured back memories of my favourite Tech T.O. talk ever. Why is it my favourite? Michele reveals how she accelerated her career so quickly and calls out the three worst words a young professional can hear, but ones I’ve heard in so many workplaces. The

Google’s New Tool Says Nearly 80 Percent of Roofs Are Sunny Enough for Solar Panels

Business & Economics

Google’s New Tool Says Nearly 80 Percent of Roofs Are Sunny Enough for Solar Panels

The company’s Project Sunroof lets you look up your house and helps you decide whether to invest in your own clean power plant.

Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits

Engineering & Technology

Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits

Efforts to invent more practical superconductors and better batteries could be the first areas of business to get a quantum speed boost.

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