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Canada’s Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow

Engineering & Technology

Canada’s Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Between 1952 and 1959, Avro Canada developed an advanced all-weather fighter interceptor called the CF-105 Arrow. This aircraft, with its futuristic, delta-wing design, captured Canadians’ imaginations in a way few projects have, before or since.

L. Bruce Robertson beside Canadian Red Cross truck, ca. [1914-1918] L. Bruce Robertson fonds, F 1374, Archives of Ontario, I0050290 Copyright: Queen’s Printer for Ontario

Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson and blood transfusion in the trenches of World War I

Canadian Blood Services

As Canada celebrates 150 years we look back on Canadian innovations in transfusion medicine. A series of posts feature remarkable Canadian progress in transfusion medicine — past, present and future. Modern Canadian blood banking and transfusion services can trace their origins to the trenches of World War I, thanks to the efforts of transfusion pioneer Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson. Robertson enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps to support the British soldiers fighting in Europe. Along

Dr. Norman Bethune (right) Canadian Blood Transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War circa 1936-1938, Spain. Source: Library and Archives Canada Copyright: Expired.

Wartime Service and Canadian Transfusion Medicine

Canadian Blood Services

As Canada celebrates 150 years we look back on Canadian innovations in transfusion medicine over the years. A series of posts over the next few weeks feature remarkable Canadian progress – past, present and future. Modern blood banking and transfusion medicine owe a great deal to Canadian wartime pioneers in battlefield medicine. For example, Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson’s insistence on whole blood for treatment of battlefield shock and hemorrhage established its medical importance in

Richard Yim working on the Excavator

Engineering & Technology

How a Waterloo start-up plans to rid the world of landmines

Richard Yim grew up in a part of Cambodia where children had to be careful playing outside. While that may seem like a general note you learn growing up in Canada, Yim’s experience carries a lot more weight since Cambodia is littered with about 10 million landmines. Yim even had the horrific experience of witnessing his aunt die from stepping on a mine when he was just eight-years-old. When he moved to Canada with his family he was amazed to see kids playing outside like there was nothing to

The cavity magnetron brought to North America in 1940. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1969.0482

Magnetron

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The magnetron helped the Allies fight the Second World War. The magnetron gave the Allies radar superiority in the Second World War. Radar, which researchers had developed before the war, uses radio waves to detect and track objects like ships and aircraft. It works by transmitting radio waves out into the atmosphere and then reading the signals that bounce off objects in the area. These signals give operators range and bearing and, over time, let them track a moving object’s direction and speed

GlobalMedic's Rapid Response Team installs blast film in Ukraine.

GlobalMedic | Blast Film

In eastern Ukraine, GlobalMedic has delivered programs that protect vulnerable civilians affected by the ongoing conflict, through the installation of blast film on the windows of institutional buildings. The 3M™ Scotchshield™ Safety & Security Window Film saves lives in the event of an explosion by preventing glass from shattering, thereby eliminating serious and fatal injuries caused by glass projectiles. GlobalMedic has installed the film on 14 buildings along the frontline of the conflict to

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

Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken), ca. 1916: George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum 20020045-1675

Sir Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook): Documenting Canada’s Wartime Experience

Canadian War Museum

Despite the enormous Canadian First World War effort, the government took a largely passive attitude to documenting the war. Luckily for Canada, and future generations, Sir Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) and Dominion Archivist Arthur Doughty successfully lobbied for better documentation and preservation of wartime activities. Aitken took it upon himself to establish the Canadian War Records Office (CWRO) in January 1916, with his own funds. The CWRO had two functions: to publicize the

Doctor Cluny Macpherson: Courtesy of The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador

Captain Cluny Macpherson: Developing Protective Equipment for Gas Warfare

Canadian War Museum

After the Germans launched the first chemical gas attack of the First World War, in April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, Allied commanders recognized the urgent need to devise countermeasures to protect soldiers from exposure to poison gas. The Hypo helmet, a chemically treated bag that offered protection against chlorine gas, was developed later that year by Captain Cluny Macpherson, the Chief Medical Officer of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment. Worn over the head and tucked in at the neck

Wilbur Franks trying on his G-suit, 1941: Library and Archives Canada PA-063923

Dr. Wilbur Franks: Developing the G-Suit

Canadian War Museum

Dr. Frederick Banting, best known as the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of insulin, assembled a group of doctors before the Second World War, and they turned their attention to aviation medicine. In 1941, Dr. Wilbur Franks, one of those researchers at the Banting Institute, developed a flying suit reinforced with fluid channels to help pilots withstand the extreme G (gravitational) forces exerted on their bodies during air combat. When performing high-speed manoeuvres, pilots tended to lose

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