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Building the Alaska Highway: George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum 19820170-001 #13

Business & Economics

The Alaska Highway: Building Canadian Infrastructure Out of Wartime Necessity

Canadian War Museum

The construction of the Alaska Highway was a major feat of American and Canadian engineering that connected Dawson Creek, British Columbia and Delta Junction, Alaska. Built in just eight months, between March and November 1942, the highway was meant to strengthen the strategic position of the United States and Canada following Japan’s entry into the Second World War. This major transportation link connected Alaska and the Yukon with the South, and opened new locations to resource extraction

Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy

Road Transportation

Science Alive! Episode 10: Canada's First Car

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Did you know that Canada’s first automobile had a horse and buggy design with a boiler and steam engine? On this episode of Science Alive, Dave talks with Curator of Transportation, Sharon Babaian about the steam buggy built by Quebec jeweller and watchmaker Henry Seth Taylor in 1867. Learn about the details of this unique vehicle and how its design was influenced by his skills as a jeweller.

Tom Everett, Hitchbot and Dave Schellenberg in a car

Engineering & Technology

Science Alive! Episode 7: Hitchbot!

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Take a ride with Hitchbot on this edition of Science Alive! What would you do if you saw a smiling robot by the side of the road… a robot with a plastic bucket for a body, pool noodles for arms and legs, and big rubber boots? Created to learn about how people interact with technology and ask the question, “Can robots trust human beings?” Hitchbot crossed Canada and most of Germany and the Netherlands. It was two weeks into its trip across the United States when reports say it was destroyed by

Source: Ingenium Artifact no. 2008.0001.001

Road Transportation

Mercury Meteor

Meteor Strikes In June 1948, manufactured in Oakville, Ontario, Ford released the initial 1949 Mercury Meteor. And in the years to come there would be a domino effect of popular Mercury vehicles. The nameplate Mercury was used when Ford bodied cars were made exclusively for the Canadian market. They were similar to the familiar U.S. Ford car body but sported their own unique grille and trim. Their popularity skyrocketed early. Due to style, luxury and surprising affordability, they became the

Dave Schellenberg and Emily Gann with the Fleet CabinCar

Road Transportation

Science Alive! Episode 5: Fleet Cabin Car Trailer

Canada Science and Technology Museum

What does an airplane manufacturer do when World War II ends? They have lost huge government contracts - but know that Canada is turning to thoughts of a more peaceful time. If you are Fleet - you have a plan to turn your airplane factories into camping trailer factories. In our current podcast and video at techno-science.ca - we check out the Fleet CabinCar made in 1947 - a low-priced, lightweight, roomy cabin trailer that looked amazing. It was a teardrop design - streamlined with room inside

Sir William Logan founded the Geographical Survey of Canada. His work laid the foundation for mapping the entire country. Source: Library and Archives Canada.

Road Transportation

Laying the foundations for mapping Canada

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Sir William Logan discovered his skill at mapping out of necessity. Born in Montreal to Scottish parents, he was sent to Edinburg to get the best education possible at only 16. But despite his high marks, Logan dropped out of university at the end of his first year to take a job at his uncle’s business. He started as an accountant, but when opportunity struck in 1831, Logan took on a management position at a coal and copper mine in Wales. Logan

Armand Bombardier, seated at the wheel of the Bombardier military snowmobile in 1943. Credit: Library and Archives Canada reference number WRM 276.

J. Armand Bombardier

Algonquin college

Patrick Jodoin Algonquin College Journalism From a young age, Joseph-Armand Bombardier had an interest in mechanics and wanted to find ways to solve transportation problems caused by harsh Canadian winters. In fact, by the time he was a teenager, Bombardier had already built his first snowmobile. Bombardier was born in 1907 in rural Quebec. His parents sent him to a seminary to become a priest, but after three years, Bombardier’s preoccupation with engines prevailed and he began studying

Dr. Roger Tomlinson

Road Transportation

Google Maps Was Born In The Wild

McGill University

In the 1960s, a geographer named Roger Tomlinson was surveying potential sites for a paper mill in Kenya. He needed to consider the locations of monkey populations and elephant migration routes, topography and soil types, and he developed a computer application that would save him the headache of logging all the landscape features manually. He took the resulting technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) home to Canada, where he worked with the Canadian government to use GIS to map the

George Klein - Inventor

Road Transportation

Electric Wheelchair

National Research Council Canada

An invention of Canada’s National Research Council – created over 50 years ago to assist injured war veterans – has helped thousands of paralyzed people around the world regain a sense of mobility. NRC designed the world’s ﬁrst practical electric wheelchair for quadriplegics, and it quickly drew international attention. The prototype, considered one of the most signiﬁcant artifacts in Canadian innovation history, is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. At the time

Snowmobile B12 of her Majesty's postal service, ca. 1940.

Road Transportation

Bombardier B-7 Snowmobile

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s idea for the snowmobile grew out of family tragedy. Impassable winter roads prevented him from taking his son to hospital, and the infant died of peritonitis. In 1935, Bombardier built a prototype that ran on caterpillar tracks like those used on military tanks. Two years later, he patented a sprocket wheel and track drive system to build the B-7, a seven passenger covered snowmobile. The B-7 became popular with country doctors and veterinarians, as well as for postal

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