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From farm to table, Dr. Oats’ life was a contribution towards Canadian agriculture

From farm to table, Dr. Oats’ life was a contribution towards Canadian agriculture

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Dr. Vernon Burrows has a storied history in the agriculture field. He invented a type of oat known as “The Rice of the Prairies,” otherwise known as Cavena Nuda – a product that was not only nutritious and delicious, but also had the potential to change the world. The Cavena Nuda is bred to not have any hull or hair when it leaves the farmer’s field. As there is no need for milling, the environmental impact and costs are significantly reduced

Don't Bug Me

Western University

During the 1950s, Western University researcher, Tony Brown, provided the genetic basis of insect resistance to insecticides, and was the first to identify the chromosomal loci responsible for DDT resistance.

With Mite

Western University

During the 2000s, Western University’s Miodrag Grbić led an international consortium that sequenced the genome of the spider mite, which is one of the world’s most destructive agricultural pests, causing more than $1 billion in damage each year. This knowledge will allow for the development of non-pesticide control measures.

Collecting maple sap in Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, 1926. Source: Library and Archives Canada/e010860378

Maple Sap Spout

Library and Archives Canada

Today’s Canadian maple syrup producers use modern vacuum tapping systems to increase the amount of sap produced by maple trees, but as late as the 1960s, the majority of producers practiced what were essentially centuries-old techniques. Long before Europeans arrived, Aboriginal peoples in the regions of what are now Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes collected and boiled sap from maple trees. Sap was collected in bark containers using a hollow reed that was inserted into a diagonal cut in the

Sleeman and Steele’s Temperated Fermenting Tub, 1874 (Patent No. 2717). Source: Library and Archives Canada/e003245291

The Temperated Fermenting Tub, 1874

Library and Archives Canada

In 1851, John Sleeman, a brewer originally from Cornwall, England, started the Silver Creek Brewery in Guelph, Ontario, which became one of the most ambitious and successful breweries of the day. In 1859, at the age of 18, his son George became manager of the operation and eventually took over the brewery when his father retired in 1868. George Sleeman proved to be talented both in business and in the art of brewing. In 1874 George patented his “Temperated Fermenting Tub.” The tub was really two

Thomas Abriel

Arrow Lakes Historical Society

Thomas Abriel was born in Pope’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, in July 1867. While young, he learned the pulp mill trade. This workplace damaged his health; and he came to British Columbia to prospect for gold. Abriel arrived in Nakusp, on the Arrow Lakes of the Columbia River System in British Columbia, in 1892. Showing his entrepreneurial nature, he started by cutting firewood for steamboats on the lake, and hung paper for a hotel that was under construction. Later endeavours included having a news

Saunders and Marquis wheat

Charles Saunders, 1867–1937

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

What do a classical musician and your morning bowl of cereal have in common? While Charles Saunders’ first love was music, he gained renown as the developer of Marquis wheat. Charles Saunders abandoned a music career for work as a government plant scientist, a change that paid dividends to Canadian farmers. Charles was the fifth child in a talented musical and scientific family. His father, William Saunders, was a renowned horticulturist and a founding director of the Central Experimental Farm

Fred and Bill Streich with Roto Thresh

Roto Thresh Combine Harvester

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A fresh way to thresh — Manitoba farmers put a “revolutionary spin” on combine design The Roto Thresh was the first combine harvester to use a spinning drum to separate grain from chaff and straw. Rotary separation is now common in combine harvesters, but in the 1950s when Manitoba farmers William Streich, Frederick Streich, and Frank McBain built their first prototype, it was an innovative departure. The “sieveless chaffer,” as it was first called, underwent further development through the

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