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Aerial photograph of General Motors’ Oshawa facilities.
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Learning from Experience: Why We Need Oral Histories

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Ingrid Mosivais Ibarra
University of Toronto
Nov 25, 2022
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.
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Re-examining Archival Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Sean Garner
University of Toronto
Nov 17, 2022
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
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What Counts as History? Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Agency

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Jacob Harvey
University of Toronto
Nov 10, 2022
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
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Experimental Collection Engagement with the Locomotives and Rolling Stock Collection

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Chloe Dennis
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 3, 2022
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
Colour photograph showing white boxes on a vertical bay of archival shelves. A label on the closest box says: “Creagan Collection AH0075.5. Airmen 1914-1918 Canadian & British. Drawer Two: 2 of 2.”
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Aviation
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Archives Awareness Week 2022 - no tours yet, but try…archival shelf bingo!

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Apr 5, 2022
How can we recreate the spontaneity and whimsy of an in-person tour online? The answer….archival shelf bingo!
A black-and-white image depicts a wooden house in a working-class neighbourhood, early 1900s.
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Engineering & Technology
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The cut nail: A revolutionary technological innovation

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Jean-Philip Mathieu
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jan 25, 2022
This tiny object may be the blandest innovation of the Industrial Revolution, but it radically transformed the ability of people to house themselves.
Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.
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Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

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Briana Ippolito
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jan 18, 2022
When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.
Three Conservators wearing personal protective equipment , including Tyvek suits, googles, nitrile gloves and respirators.
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Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

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Caitlin Walsh
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 8, 2021
From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.
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Footprints and fingerprints: Reflections on a shoe-forming press from the Kingston Penitentiary

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Sara Harvey
Carleton University
Sep 21, 2020
Have you ever thought about how far you’ve travelled and where you’ve left your mark? What about the people who have left their marks on your shoes?
Four students, two in green shirts, two in grey shirts, stand on both sides of a poster with their invention drawn on it. Materials for building their invention are scattered in front of them.
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Students dive into science with new STEAM program

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Bradley Legault
Algonquin College
Jul 21, 2020
A hands-on new program — designed to hook young students on science — is celebrating a successful start.
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