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Kayak - Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Marine Transportation

Kayak

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The high-speed hunter. The kayak is the hunter’s boat in name; it means exactly that in Inuktitut, the language of its creators. The kayak is also the hunter’s boat in design; it is fast and manoeuvrable, used by Inuit hunters with equal effectiveness on rivers, inland lakes, and coastal waters. The kayak is old. Inuit hunters have relied on them for at least four thousand years. The classic vessel is constructed entirely out of natural materials, made of stitched sealskin or the skins of other

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Household Technology

Blue Box Recycling

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The better way. Earth-changing ideas are not the property of Ph.Ds. Anyone can innovate if they just look around and ask, “Can’t we do this a better way?” Nyle Ludolph asked that question. The Kitchener, Ontario, garbage man was troubled by the vast amounts of waste he saw during his daily pickups, for he knew the landfills in his town were bursting at their seams. His answer came in the form of a simple blue box. In 1983, Nyle championed the world’s first municipal curb-side recycling program

Electric Wheelchair courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada

Household Technology

Electric Wheelchair

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The veteran’s new legs. War is often an exercise in unintended consequences. The wonder-drug penicillin, for instance, enabled thousands of gravely injured World War Two servicemen to survive their wounds, yet many of these otherwise doomed veterans returned to their homes and families as paraplegics and quadriplegics. Conventional wheelchairs were of little use to these men, whose manual strength and dexterity had been impaired or eliminated. George Klein embraced this new challenge—an

Electric Radio courtesy of Ingenium

Household Technology

Electric Radio

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The freedom from batteries. Today the name Rogers is synonymous with communication in Canada. While most associate the surname with the tv and mobile empire, the first man behind the name was a radio guy. And not just any radio guy. In 1925, Edward Rogers Sr. developed the first commercially viable all-electric radio in Toronto, Ontario. The tireless inventor also created an adaptor set that made it possible for owners of old sets to throw away their batteries and plug their radios into the

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Egg Carton

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The dimple that settled a fight. Who says nothing positive ever comes from fighting? In 1911, Joseph Coyle happened upon a heated argument between a deliveryman and a hotelier in his hometown of Smithers, British Columbia. The hotel owner was upset because the eggs shipped from a local farm often arrived cracked or broken. While a newspaper publisher by profession, Joseph was a designer by inclination. The overheard argument inspired him to create the egg carton. The secret of its success is its

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Electric Range

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The power cooker. Thomas Ahearn’s dinner guests were a contented lot that Ottawa evening of 1882. They had just finished an elaborate meal prepared for them by their fellow electrical engineer. Their mood changed from satisfied to horrified when their host revealed he had cooked the feast using electricity. Developed in secret, Ahearn’s electric range used resistance coils to convert electricity into heat. A full ten years after this inaugural, magical demonstration, the first commercial

Duck Decoy / photograph courtesy of Clifford Lambeboy/the Canadian Museum of History

Duck Decoy

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The hunter’s secret weapon. The hunter’s most formidable weapon is deception. The Cree and Ojibway peoples of Canada’s Great Lakes relied on it for thousands of years. They used reeds, cattails, bulrushes, tamarack, and other plants to make remarkably lifelike floating and stationary decoys that lured game birds and waterfowl to roosting areas. Once there, they were within reach of the nets, snares, arrows, and spears of the Aboriginal hunters. European settlers and then generations of

Megaphone / Canada Dept. of Interior/Library and Archives Canada

Megaphone

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The best way to call a moose. Why change something that’s worked perfectly for thousands of years? Today’s moose hunters have no reason to adapt the megaphones used by their Ojibway and Attiamek predecessors. Made out of birchbark, bound with spruce roots, and secured with leather straps, these devices amplify and direct the sound of the moose call, attracting the creatures to the hunters. While today’s versions may be made out of different materials - plastic and whatnot - the enduring

Teenage inventors

Teen could bring clean water to millions

Rachel Brouwer is featured in Innovation150’s national public awareness campaign. Learn more. Rachel Brouwer isn’t old enough to drive, but she’s got her own billboard, her own Wikipedia page, and an asteroid named after her. The asteroid dedication – in addition to a $1,500 prize – was for coming in second at the 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair after winning a gold medal at the 2015 Canada-Wide Science Fair. It’s all because of an invention of Brouwer’s that could provide

Dr. Ryan Lewinson

Household Technology

Dr. Ryan Lewinson uses Entrepreneurship to Improve Biomechanics

ASTech Foundation

Becoming a national research leader and creating and running a successful company is out of reach for many in a lifetime, but 2016 Leaders of Tomorrow ASTech Award Winner Dr. Ryan Lewinson has done it all by the age of 27, while still a full-time medical student. Lewinson says his passions drive his success. “I love looking into different product development ideas; I love learning how our bones, joints, muscles and other tissues interact; and I love solving new problems,” he says. “So I

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