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The rare book room with some new boxes.

Library and Archives

Behind the scenes: Preparing Ingenium's library and archives for a big move

How do you move a library and archives? Very carefully. As Ingenium’s archivist, a big part of my role lately has been to prepare for a major move to the Collections Conservation Centre — scheduled for completion later this year. If you live in Ottawa, you may have noticed the construction site right next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Ingenium staff will soon begin moving with two museum collections into the new building. Among the collections to move are the library and archival

The road section monitored by the speed radar set of the Connecticut State Police, near Glastonbury, Connecticut. Anon., “L’actualité en images – Pièges à comboys.” La Patrie, 16 February 1949, 14.

Cowboy traps did not appear yesterday

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

May I begin this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a heartfelt welcome, my reading friend? Yours truly realises how long this winter has been and how much you look forward to be on the road again, to quote the title of a 1979 song made popular by Willie Hugh Nelson, and the theme song of a very popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series hosted by Wayne Victor Rostad, On the Road Again, which remained on the air between 1987 and 2007. It is therefore with some

A Pontiac Firebird Comanche GT vehicle, Montréal, Québec. Anon., “La Comanche: une auto américaine améliorée par un Montréalais.” La Patrie, 9 February 1969, 12.

Road Transportation

Vroom vroom, vroom vroom, with her auto woman, vroom vroom, vroom vroom, of man the soul troubles

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello and… What is it, my reading friend? You seem unseasonably upset today. You do not like the fact that yours truly chose an automobile as a topic for this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee? Well, too bad, so sad, as a former colleague of mine at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, sometimes said in such circumstances. Even though I am not all that interested in automobiles, the title of the 9 February 1969 article that came my way as I pored over the now

A Zavod Imeni Likhacheva ZIL-111 limousine, Moscow. Anon., “–.” L’Action catholique, 1 February 1959, 20.

Road Transportation

A limousine from a den of communist atheists in a catholic newspaper

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

What’s this, my reading friend? You wonder why our blog / bulletin / thingee, dedicated as it is to all things aeronautical and spacey, is once again dealing with something as mundane and boring as an automobile? Well, for starters, yours truly was intrigued by the presence of a photo of a Soviet automobile in a catholic newspaper from Québec, Québec, namely L’Action catholique. Was 1 February 1959, the day when said photo was published, a slow news day? We shall never know. In any event, the

The one and only Caravans International Hover-Sprite air cushion caravan, London, England. Anon., “International News.” Air-Cushion Vehicles, January 1969, 9.

Road Transportation

Can one be seasick in a caravan?

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend, and welcome to the first 2019 issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee on the wonderful world of aviation and space, and… What’s this? You do not think that an air cushion caravan fits the mandate of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario? I respectfully beg to differ. This unlikely hybrid did lift off the ground, did it not? Besides, you can’t tell me that you are not the least bit intrigued by the image yours truly dredged up from the January 1969

The Prévost Terra-Yacht corporate vehicle, Sainte-Claire de Dorchester, Québec. Anon., “Montréal – Actualités : Maison ambulante.” Photo-Journal, 9 December 1948, 7.

Road Transportation

‘Cause I’m leavin’ on the Terra-Yacht

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend, yours truly who has worked very hard salutes you. To my great shame, I must confess to having once again strayed from the righteous aeronautical and spatial right that leads to a happy and carefree retirement. Our topic for this week has indeed nothing to do with the fields of activity of my employer, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario. Verily I say to you, I must confess to have been intrigued by the photo above, as fuzzy as it is, which

Elaine visits the Moving Stories exhibition, with daughter Jamie Wolfe Phillips, husband Jim Phillips, and daughter Emily Wolfe Phillips.

Road Transportation

Honouring an innovator who gave others the “gift of freedom”

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ottawa resident Elaine Wolfe was undoubtedly thinking about her late father, Clifford Wolfe, as she visited the Moving Stories exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum last week. The temporary exhibition – which showcases some rarely-seen artifacts from the museum’s transportation collection – includes Elaine’s 1988 Chevy Blazer, outfitted with an innovative wheelchair lift that was invented by her dad when she was a young adult. “Calling my first truck an artifact is making me

A typical Innocenti Lambretta scooter. Anon. “Advertising – Bentley’s Cycles and Sports Limited.” Le Petit Journal, 10 August 1958, 110.

Road Transportation

Innocentis abroad: The beautiful stories of the Lambretta scooters

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Good day / buongiorno / bonjour, my reading friend. You may wonder what a scooter lifted off the pages of the 10 August 1958 issue of a Montréal, Québec, weekly, Le Petit Journal, is doing in our blog / bulletin / thingee. I respectfully respond to this observation by pointing out that there is more to life than airplanes. This being said (typed?), the subject that concerns us this week has a small aeronautical element, but enough twaddle, let us move into the heart of the matter. Allied to

Electric vehicle charging station in Quebec, Canada.

Road Transportation

Gas Crisis of the 1970's spurs Electric Vehicle Research and Development

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Sun through clouds over lake

Social Science & Culture

Searching for the sublime: Algonquin Park and the origins of wilderness tourism

In the late 1800s, Canadian cities were in the process of a major transition due to great population increases, industrialization and a growing middle class. Toronto was no exception, and in terms of its population size and industrial production, was second only to Montreal in these years.

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