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Aerial photograph of General Motors’ Oshawa facilities.

Collection Development

Learning from Experience: Why We Need Oral Histories

Ingrid Mosivais Ibarra

University of Toronto

The large industrial footprint of the General Motors Canada manufacturing facility in Oshawa suggests the scale of its importance and influence in the surrounding community.

Front cover of GM Canada’s Expo 86 pamphlet with wording “IN MOTION…IN TOUCH” displayed in large capital letters.

Collection Development

Re-examining Archival Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

University of Toronto

Re-The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a laundry list of consequences on everyday life; a list far too long to synthesize into one tidy blog post. Instead, I want to shine a light on the impact that the pandemic has had on archival research. For much of the last two years, physical archives have been closed to researchers. For example, the University of Toronto’s archival collections have been shuttered for in-person use, while their online collections and services have remained accessible

A photo of Unifor Local 222’s meeting hall.

Collection Development

What Counts as History? Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Agency

University of Toronto

Popular understandings of history often rest on the perceived achievements of “great men.” These retellings tend to structure their narratives around particularly prominent individuals or decisive political and cultural moments. Certainly, this approach can help to reveal the basic elements of an important historical episode – names, dates, and places, for example – but it tends to obscure the individual and collective efforts of people in their day-to-day life. Indeed, “Great man” methodology

An image looking down the centre of a large room with two rows of locomotive and rolling stock artifacts.

Collection Development

Experimental Collection Engagement with the Locomotives and Rolling Stock Collection

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The majority of Ingenium’s locomotives and rolling stock collection are not currently on public display and most likely will never be due to their size, weight, and maneuverability. New technologies and digital tools, however, create opportunities for these rail artifacts to be seen and accessed by a wider audience. With this in mind, I created a virtual tour that brings together 360 images, artifact histories, archival material, sound, and other Ingenium projects to tell the story of rail

A scan of drawing J-35-L-326, one of our largest, illustrating a 4-6-2 type steam locomotive.

Collection Development

Discover the Canadian Pacific Railway Steam Locomotive Drawing Collection

Marcia Mordfield

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Steam Locomotive Drawing Collection documents and illustrates in exacting detail the most vibrant period of steam locomotive development in Canada.

A small two-door grey electric vehicle parked on the street in front of a shop.

Collection Development

Lithium-Ion batteries in Canada: Documenting a technological revolution

Erich Weidenhammer

Curator, University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection

Aticle from an issue of Guna Sundari in 1936.

Collection Development

McGill-Ingenium Fellowship: Part One - A Historian & Her Archives

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

“Excuse me, sir”, I asked, trying to get the attention of the staff member at the Maharashtra State Archives, a public archive located in the heart of South Bombay. I had just spent several moments pacing up and down the dark corridors stacked with piles and piles of cloth-bound files and was making no headway in my search. I continued despite the silence in response, “Could you please direct me to the section with the Times of India newspapers from the 1930s onwards?” I waited in anticipation.

Two female cyclists pedal through a tight roadway during the Tour de France féminin, 1984.

Collection Development

The uphill race: Researching Canadian women in competitive cycling

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Since the 1980s, female competitors have brought home many accolades, and not without their challenges.

Eight people stand in front of a flatbed truck, loaded with a large red-and-white wooden boat.

Collection Development

Collecting Nahma: A skiff with a story to tell

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If artifacts could talk, what would they tell us? An old, wooden sailboat called Nahma has a treasure trove of stories.

Pictured is a tightly-framed photograph of an Alleles prosthetic leg cover, as displayed in the Wearable Tech exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The prosthetic cover's shape resembles the shape of a human leg, from knee down to ankle, but its appearance is highly stylized. It is made of a textured pink plastic, with a detailed black pattern that extends from top to bottom.

Collection Development

Representing accessibility in the Ingenium collection

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

An Ingenium conservator shares a glimpse into life with dyslexia, struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how disability impacts their view of the collection (Post 3/3).

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