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Science & Technology: By Women for Women

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Sep 7, 2017
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Matthew Sheridan
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Matthew Sheridan: Nix Color Sensor

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Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation
Aug 24, 2017
The ability to match, formulate, correct and control the quality of colour is a vital function in many industries including textiles, cosmetics, computer imaging, commercial paints and graphic design. Traditionally, every colour measurement method, from spectrophotometers to fans of paint colours, has been costly, difficult to transport and largely inaccurate due to varying light conditions and human error. Matthew Sheridan came up with the idea for a ping pong ball-sized colour sensor after
Frank Bouchard
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Frank Bouchard: Wipebook

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Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation
Aug 23, 2017
Frank Bouchard recognized the need for a low-tech solution to a common problem – giving learners and creators erasability. His Wipebook invention is a reusable, recyclable dry erase paper notebook that allows users to create, solve, erase and start again. Developed initially as an entrepreneurial class project at the University of Ottawa, consumer demand for Wipebook was overwhelming. When Mr. Bouchard started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $4,000 in pre-orders, the campaign raised an
Robert Niven
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Robert Niven: CarbonCure Technologies

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Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation
Aug 23, 2017
Robert Niven’s passion for innovation has driven both his educational path and his professional career. As the founder and CEO of CarbonCure Technologies, he helped develop a breakthrough technology that allows concrete producers to reuse CO2 during the manufacturing of concrete. The use of CO2 also improves the quality of the concrete, lowers costs and reduces the overall carbon footprint. It was during his master’s work in Environmental Engineering at McGill University that Mr. Niven began
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Theodore Witte: Caulking Gun

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Ontario Science Centre
Aug 22, 2017
Here’s a story that takes the cake! Legend has it that Theodore Witte of Chilliwack, British Columbia, got his inspiration for the world’s first caulking gun by watching a local baker decorate a cake by squeezing icing out of a piping bag. In 1894 Witte patented his “puttying-tool”, a “simple and inexpensive” ratcheted device that let users apply a sealant without having to touch the stuff with either their hands or a putty knife.
Arthur Sicard snowblower
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Snowblower

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Ontario Science Centre
Aug 22, 2017
How did a dairy farmer dream up a snowblower? He reaped his idea from his neighbour’s combine harvester! Tired of struggling to make milk deliveries during snowy Quebec winters, Arthur Sicard designed a machine to collect and blow away snow instead of grain. Thirty years and several advances in automotive technology later, he developed a modified truck that could scoop and throw snow farther than 25 metres. In 1927 Sicard sold his first snowblowers to cities on the Island of Montreal, selling
Red Fife Wheat
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David Fife and Red Fife Wheat

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Aug 14, 2017
In 1842, David Fife developed Red Fife Wheat, the dominant wheat grown in Western Canada for 60 years – 1860 to 1910. Red Fife is the male parent of Marquis Wheat which, in 1915, supplanted Red Fife as the dominant Canadian wheat. Sharon Rempel’s Heritage Wheat Project in 1988 marked the beginning of the Red Fife Wheat Revival. Artisan bakers prefer Red Fife due to its purity (no GMO), wholesome, nutty taste, milling qualities and nutritious taste. Why is Red Fife Wheat important? Agriculture
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Sharing Our Innovation: "The Relens"

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Presley Sibbick
Jul 25, 2017
In 2017, students from Hagersville Elementary School in Ontario worked in teams to design, develop and share Innovation Projects. One team of young innovators created ‘The Relens’. The Innovation Project ideas began on a field trip to Nipissing University, Brantford campus, where students ranging from grades 3 to 5 learned about Canadian Innovations and the Innovation Cycle. This field trip was led by student teachers, Joseph Bishop and Presley Sibbick, along with Nipissing University professor
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Wonderbra

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Jul 5, 2017
The power of the push-up. Some products are so potent their names have defined a category. Think Kleenex for tissue, Teflon for non-stick, and Vaseline for petroleum jelly. The same goes for Wonderbra and women’s intimate apparel. Wonderbra was the 1964 brainchild of designer Louise Poirier of the Canadian Corset Company. The product’s name hinted at the revolution her brassiere would spark in the age when four women in ten still wore girdles. To its credit, the Montreal business realized modern
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The Oldsmobile - a Relic of Canada's Car Manufacturing History

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St. Catharines Museum
Jun 30, 2017
The car we have on display in the St. Catharines’ museum is representative of the automotive industry in St. Catharines, as it is the first style of car built in the City and was manufactured in the first plant in Canada designed and built specifically for automobile manufacturing. Packard electric built this car on license from Oldsmobile for the distribution in Canada and the British Empire. The Packard Electric co. re-located to St. Catharines in order to take advantage of the close proximity
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