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Birgit Juergensen

Business & Economics

Stream Systems Optimization Software Saves Millions

ASTech Foundation

Running a successful business requires constant attention to improving operational efficiencies. However, implementing new procedures can be costly and time consuming. 2016 ASTech Start-up Award winner Stream Systems Ltd. has solved this issue by building a software platform that allows companies to “build their own assets like an ecosystem, play around with it and get more out of what they have,” says Stream Systems Vice President of Operations, Birgit Juergensen. This platform is like a

Joseph Coyle at age 23

Joseph Coyle

Bulkley Valley Museum

One of the Bulkley Valley’s most noteworthy former residents was a resourceful pioneer, newspaper editor and inventor: Joseph Leopold Coyle. Joseph Coyle was born in Ontario in 1871 and began his career as a journalist apprentice. He moved first to New Jersey and then to Alaska before eventually settling in British Columbia’s Bulkley Valley in 1906. Coyle established several newspapers, including the Omineca Herald, the Bulkley Pioneer, and the Interior News. Founded in 1910, the Interior News

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

Radio, Receiver Source: Ingenium [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Business & Economics

Radio, Receiver Source: CSTMC/SMSTC [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Early Life Ted Rogers and his passion for radio technology and communications built the foundation for today’s renowned company, Rogers Communications. Edward Samuel Rogers, known as Ted Rogers, was born on June 21, 1900, in Toronto, Ontario. Passion for Radio At the age of 11, he became fascinated with radio after seeing his first receiver. Just two years later, he was already being recognized in the community as a skilled radio operator after transmitting signals with one of the first licensed

Source: Ingenium Artifact no. 2003.0061.001

Business & Economics

Peter Lymburner Robertson (1879-1951)

Peter Lymburner Robertson Peter Lymburner Robertson – also known as P.L. Robertson – was a Canadian business mogul, author and inventor. He popularized the square-socket version of the screw and the corresponding screwdriver in the early 1900s. His products are still named after him today. Robertson was born in Seneca, which is now part of Haldimand County located in southern Ontario. From Pain to Product Robertson became a sales representative in Canada for a Philadelphia tool company. During a

Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad Company lamp and trainman's torch Source: Ingenium [CN002052]

Business & Economics

The Discovery of Kerosene

An Invention Brought to Light For thousands of years prior to Abraham Gesner’s discovery, people had used oil lamps to light their way. Like many primitive products, though, oil had its downfalls. The flame produced in oil lamps wasn’t very bright and the oil used would go bad after being stored for a while. Gesner sought a fix. By distilling coal, he produced a clear liquid. When this liquid was placed in a lamp with a wick, it burned cleaner and much brighter than oil. He dubbed the liquid

Revolutionary cattle breeding that helped Alberta beef become a world leader

Revolutionary cattle breeding that helped Alberta beef become a world leader

University of Alberta

Roy Berg’s controversial cattle breeding research revolutionised Alberta’s beef industry. It was controversial because no one in 1955, was promoting cross-breeding beef cattle anywhere in the world. Berg knew beef production would dramatically increase with hybrid vigour and cross-breeding, and each generation thereafter would be stronger and more productive. Ten years later, he proved it, when his research at the University of Alberta eventually led to a 40% increase in cattle productivity

Margaret Newton devoted her life to eradicating wheat rust. She helped Canada’s economy by almost completely reducing revenue loss from the fungus.

Saving Canada’s wheat

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1916, Canada had its worst season for wheat with 200 million dollars in loss from bad crops. The crops were infected with a wheat rust organism also known as a fungus, which made the grain unusable. That same year, Margaret Newton, in her second year of university, was part of the first team to study wheat rust. From then on Newton would devote 25 years of her life to pathology and studying rust spores to save Canada’s wheat. In 1922 Newton was

The Million Dollar Coin

The Million Dollar Coin

Royal Canadian Mint

In 2007 the Royal Canadian Mint produced the world’s first million dollar coin. The 100 kg, 99999 pure gold bullion coin with a $1 million face value was originally conceived as a unique showpiece to promote the Mint’s new line of 99999 pure 1 oz Gold Maple Leaf bullion coins. After several interested buyers came forward, the Mint decided to make a very limited quantity available for sale. To date, five of these majestic gold bullion coins, weighing 3,215 troy ounces each, have been purchased by

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

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