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Rob Bell and Tyya Strutt share their award-winning 2019 Defining Moments Canada project: “The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Changing the Future through History – The defining Moments” on May 11, 2019, at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Photo by Sonia Mendes, Ingenium Canada.

Young students bring forgotten stories of the Spanish flu back to life

Michelle Campbell Mekarski

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Through her school’s award-winning history project on the Spanish Flu pandemic, 11-year-old Tyya Strutt learned a somber truth. “Most people who die in times of terrible events or peril are never remembered, especially if they are children,” says Strutt. “But this is not right."

The wireless telegraphy station of the physics laboratory of the Collège Sainte-Marie, Montréal, Québec. Anon., “Des postes de télégraphie sans fil établis à Montréal.” La Patrie, 3 April 1909, 9.

Science, technology, innovation and catholicism

Rénald Fortier

Ave / hello, my reading friend. I have a confession to make. Err, yes, I am a bit wacky, but this admission is not the one I had in mind. I must confess I have been interested in the history of science and, perhaps even more, to that of technology for many, many years. If it is true that I have a weakness for the history of aviation, I dare to hope I have somewhat catholic, in other word universal, fields of interest, and ... And yes, you’re right, I plan once again to move away from the only

Wilfrid "Wop" May and Victor Horner in an Avro Avian, 1920s

A matter of life and death: Diphtheria outbreak in Little Red River, Alberta

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In the middle of winter 1929, a serious diphtheria epidemic broke out in the small colony of Little Red River, Alberta (about 800 km north of Edmonton), threatening the health of the entire settlement. A Hudson's Bay Company official had already died from the disease, and several others were sick. Today, people are vaccinated against diphtheria as babies but in 1929 it was a considerable threat, causing sickness and possibly death. By the time of this incident a cure existed for diphtheria, but

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Social Science & Culture

Digital storytelling tools empower students to share Canada’s history

Tatiana Zamozdra

Defining Moments Canada

Over the last few months, there has been an exciting surge of momentum as Canadian students and teachers engage in the art of digital storytelling through an ongoing, national commemoration of the Spanish flu. As the Project Coordinator with Defining Moments Canada — an organization that helps to tell the stories of Canada’s pivotal historical moments — it has been encouraging to see such an outpouring of interest in one of the most fascinating chapters of Canadian history, whose stories are so

View of the University of Toronto Libraries website for the Insulin Collections.

Canada in the world’s memory: The insulin collections at University of Toronto

Do you know what memories—made in Canada—are now enshrined in the world’s memory? The UNESCO Memory of the World program registers documentary heritage considered to be of world significance and outstanding universal value. A number of collections preserved in Canada are on the register, including some that show the history of science and innovation. The University of Toronto’s insulin collections, for example, consist of the archives created by the scientific team of Frederick Grant Banting

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Doctors to prescribe museum visits to help patients 'escape from their own pain'

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A trip to the museum could be just what the doctor ordered. In November, a group of physicians in Montreal — alongside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts — is launching a pilot project that will see them write prescriptions for paintings, sculpture, and relaxation. Read more about the pilot project and why doctors theorize it will help their patients’ health in this article from CBC.

Misconceptions over penicillin allergies can be dangerous

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Research indicates that 10 per cent of all patients in the U.S. claim to have a penicillin allergy. However, 90 per cent of those people are not truly allergic and can tolerate the drug — which may be a matter of life and death. Read more about what a study in the British Medical Journal reveals about the importance of penicillin.

Defining Moments Canada launches national contest to commemorate the centenary of the Spanish flu pandemic

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A national contest is challenging schools, museums, and heritage organizations to tell stories about the Spanish flu pandemic using digital storytelling tools. “We hope to inspire Canadians to bring to light the stories that shaped our country but are only briefly mentioned in textbooks, and often ignore the many diverse voices that need to be heard,” says Neil Orford, program leader for Defining Moments Canada, the bilingual, non-profit heritage organization hosting the contest. “Personal

Young scientists send worms into space

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Four young women from Toronto have become published scientists, thanks to a school project. The women — who were in Grades 8 through 12 when their project started — shot a tube of microscopic worms into orbit so they could study the effects of low gravity on muscle deterioration. Kay Wu, one of the students involved in the project, was selected by Ingenium as a STEAM Horizon Award Winner in 2017 . Read more about the successful science project in this feature article from the Globe and Mail, and