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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
Two female cyclists pedal through a tight roadway during the Tour de France féminin, 1984.
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The uphill race: Researching Canadian women in competitive cycling

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Holly Benison
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 3, 2021
Since the 1980s, female competitors have brought home many accolades, and not without their challenges.
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Start your engines: A Ford GT Mk II is now on display in Ottawa

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 18, 2021
Calling all motorheads! A Ford GT Mk II is now on temporary exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.
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Ingenium celebrates #LibraryShelfie Day from home in 2021

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Jan 26, 2021
Happy #LibraryShelfie Day! Founded in 2014 by the New York Public Library, Library Shelfie Day is celebrated on the fourth Wednesday of January.
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Daily mobility during COVID-19

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Emily Gann
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 19, 2020
With the temporary closure of public spaces — such as office buildings, schools, shops, restaurants, and community centres — our daily patterns of mobility have notably changed.
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Massive elevator lifts Canada’s vintage cars to their new home

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 26, 2019
A colossal freight elevator at the Ingenium Centre is taking Canada’s science and technology collection to new heights — quite literally.
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Hand-built bicycle tells a historical story of a colourful, Ontario teen

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Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Oct 24, 2019
The Billings Estate National Historic Site is currently displaying a curious wooden bicycle. It was hand built in the late 1890s by a teenager named James Henry Blair, using materials scavenged off his father’s Gloucester farm. Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum give us a rare chance to explore the mindset of this young inventor as he puzzled through the process of how to build a bicycle with limited resources.
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Ingenium's big move: Packing Canada's largest bicycle collection

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Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Aug 20, 2019
VIEW INFOGRAPHIC It’s no secret that Ingenium is gearing up for a big move. As staff busy themselves with this mammoth task, let us take a moment to fully appreciate just one of the MANY collections being packed up for the journey to the new Collections Conservation Center. Did you know that the Canada Science and Technology Museum holds the largest collection related to the history of bicycle technology in Canada? The Shields Collection contains over 3,000 items from the early nineteenth
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