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A typical advertisement for a product offered by O-Pee-Chee Gum Company of London, Ontario. Anon., “O-Pee-Chee Gum Company.” The Aylmer Express, 6 June 1912, 5.

“Chew Chew Chew Chew Your Bubble Gum:” The sweet old times of O-Pee-Chee Gum Company Limited of London, Ontario

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

I have a favour to ask, my reading friend. Would you be willing to entertain the possibility of accepting a well-known if defunct Canadian confectionery company as a worthwhile topic under our agriculture and food heading? Much obliged. You will of course have noted that today’s illustration was / is brought to us by The Aylmer Express, a newspaper which still existed as of 2022. Even though that particular name made its appearance in that small Ontario town located near Ottawa, Ontario, in

Three images side by side, grocery shelves full of eggs in clear trays, coral reefs seen from space, and a map of Canada divided into four differently coloured shapes.

3 things you should know about egg refrigeration, coral reef satellite maps, and watersheds

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the June edition, they explain why in Canada, eggs need to be refrigerated, how a satellite map of the world's coral reefs informs conservation, and how watersheds connect us to the oceans.

A typical Tillson Company Limited advertisement. Anon. “Tillson Company Limited.” The Canadian Grocer & General Storekeeper, 13 May 1892, 19.

“A Food, not a Fad:” The life and times of Edwin Delevan Tillson of Tillsonburg, Ontario

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Yours truly would like to begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with an apology. Contrary to the gentlepersons agreement agreed to many moons ago, I did not include an agricultural topic among those published in April 2022 in said blog / bulletin / thingee. I hereby remedy this failure on my part with what follows. Please rest assured that the what follows in question is actually quite interesting. Really. Edwin Delevan Tillson was born in March 1825, in Normandale, Upper Canada

A spliced, three-part image depicts several unwashed potatoes on a white background, several springtails on ice pellets, and a black and white view of Saturn’s crater-rich moon Mimas, dominated by a very large impact crater on the right.

3 things you should know about PEI potato wart, Saturn’s moon Mimas, and animals with built in antifreeze.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the March edition, we explain how a soil fungus forced PEI Potatoes into quarantine, that a hidden ocean may cause Saturn’s moon Mimas to wobble, and how some animals have built in antifreeze.

A spliced, three-part image depicts sugar beets and a pile of white sugar and sugar cubes, a view of a partially cloud-covered ocean taken from above the Earth, and a humanoid toy robot wearing a stethoscope.

3 things you should know about beets, satellites, and robotic surgery

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the February edition, we delve into a promising solution for combatting slippery winter roads, how satellites are improving our ability to monitor and study volcanoes, and why robotics may play an increasing role in medical surgeries.

A three-part, spliced image of a parched and cracked area of soil, an atom encircled with electrons, and the surface of the Moon.

3 things you should know about salty soil, invisibility, and Canada’s lunar rover

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the December edition, they explored the problem with high salinity levels in agricultural soils, a breakthrough in invisibility, and the emerging designs for the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission.

Two gingerbread and sugar creations are pictured against a dark backdrop; a model of the James Webb Space Telescope is in the foreground, and the Ariane 5 rocket is visible in the background.

Gingerbread art launches the holiday season at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Pastry artist Catherine Beddall has created two gingerbread masterpieces to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope aboard Ariane 5!

A three-part, spliced image of a crate of cucumbers inside a greenhouse, an artist’s illustration of asteroids and spacecraft, and a digital blood glucose monitor and insulin needle.

3 things you should know about artificial intelligence, planetary defence, and insulin

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the November edition, they dive into how artificial intelligence can automate greenhouse operations, NASA’s upcoming asteroid defence mission, and why exactly insulin is so critical to our bodies.

A composite image of several orange pumpkins, a spacecraft next to a rocky body, and a zombie

3 things you should know about pumpkins, Trojan asteroids, and embracing your inner zombie

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the October edition, our science advisors discuss how selective breeding results in more choice at the pumpkin patch, a fly-by of seven Trojan asteroids, and why you need to embrace your “inner zombie.” Happy Halloween!

A spliced, three-part image features: a tray of oysters on the left, a graphical representation of a black hole and a neutron star orbiting each other in the centre, and a graphical image of a robot on the right.

3 things you should know about acidification, gravitational waves, and humanoids

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the September edition, our experts wrote about why ocean acidification is posing problems for shellfish, how researchers used gravitational waves to observe a black hole and neutron star orbiting each other and merging, and what the future could look like — with humanoids in our midst.

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