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A black and white photograph taken from the air. The photo shows a series of docks with buildings on the port, and city streets behind. The Halifax Citadel is in the background.

Library and Archives

Ingenium Archives “City Series”: Halifax

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The “City Series” is composed of short articles highlighting selections of historical photos from cities and towns throughout Canada. In today’s installment, we focus on Halifax, the provincial capital of Nova Scotia.

A black and white photograph of a walking path lined with tulips, and a large building in the background with tall spires.

Library and Archives

Ingenium Archives “City Series”: Ottawa

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ingenium’s archives is launching a new series of short articles highlighting selections of historical photos from cities and towns throughout Canada.

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.”

Archives Awareness Week 2022 - no tours yet, but try…archival shelf bingo!

How can we recreate the spontaneity and whimsy of an in-person tour online? The answer….archival shelf bingo!

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.

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.

A black-and-white photograph showing a crowd gathered on the ground below the R-100, a massive blimp-like airship, tied to the top of a tall tower that looks like a lighthouse.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it was a massive rigid airship called the R-100

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In August 1930, all eyes were on Saint-Hubert, Quebec, as people waited for the arrival of a massive, rigid airship named the R-100.

Three women are visible in separate windows in a virtual meeting screen.

Library and Archives

Coffee, cats, and metadata: Archivists working from home

The past year has been anything but typical. Staff at Ingenium’s Library and Archives have focused less on the physical and more on the digital/virtual — thanks to COVID-19 restrictions and staff mostly working from home.

A tight shot of a bookshelf, crowded with a plant, photographs, a stereo speaker, and some books visible on these shelves.

Ingenium celebrates #LibraryShelfie Day from home in 2021

Happy #LibraryShelfie Day! Founded in 2014 by the New York Public Library, Library Shelfie Day is celebrated on the fourth Wednesday of January.

Image is a black-and-white photograph showing the first Canadian contingent of troops standing at attention before a train car.

Library and Archives

Remembering in black and white: Wartime photographs just released in Ingenium’s Digital Archives

On the occasion of Remembrance Day, Ingenium’s archivists would like to share some newly released photographs in the Digital Archives.

: A black-and-white photograph of Robert Hampton Gray posing with his hands across his raised knee and dressed in his ceremonial uniform.

Honouring the brave: Robert Hampton Gray was Canada’s last recipient of the Victoria Cross

British Columbia’s Robert Hampton Gray died 75 years ago; he was Canada’s last recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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