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Second World War Nutrition Poster: Canadian War Museum 19750317-073

Canada’s Food Guide: Wartime Eating for a Healthier Postwar Population

Canadian War Museum

The first Canadian food guide, The Official Food Rules, was conceived in 1942 as a means of helping consumers navigate the difficulties of wartime rationing. If followed, the guide would ensure high nutritional standards for the men and women contributing to the war effort, decrease malnutrition associated with poverty, and improve the general health of Canadians. Scientists, medical doctors, academics and social welfare workers began working together in 1938 and eventually recommended the food

Donald Hings at work: Courtesy of the Hings family

Donald Hings: Engineering the Walkie-talkie

Canadian War Museum

Donald Hings, an engineer and inventor, equipped the Canadian and British military with an early version of the portable two-way wireless radio (walkie-talkie) during the Second World War. Hings was recognized by the Telecommunications Hall of Fame in 2006 because “his modifications of the two-way radio … which he evolved into the world’s first functional and operational walkie-talkie, saved the lives of thousands of British, Canadian and American troops during the Second World War and helped to

Model Hydrofoil: Canadian War Museum 19801222-001

Marine Transportation

HMCS Bras d’Or: Imagining a Faster Warship

Canadian War Museum

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Bras d’Or was developed by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for testing anti-submarine warfare technology on an ocean-going hydrofoil. A high-speed vessel, it could operate like a conventional ship, with its hull floating in the water, or travel on its wing-like foils, with its hull completely out of the water, at speeds of up to 60 knots (110 kilometres per hour). The RCN hydrofoil project had its origins in the innovative ideas of Alexander Graham Bell, who

Avro CF-105 Arrow at the roll out ceremony, October 4 1957. Source: CAVM-1763

Avro Arrow

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Avro CF-105 Arrow was the first and, so far, the only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. The Avro CF-105 Arrow was Canada’s first and, so far, only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. Developed during the Cold War in the 1950s, the Arrow was designed to intercept Soviet bombers in Canada’s Arctic airspace as they attacked North America. Avro Canada developed the massive interceptor and a wholly-new jet engine, the Iroquois. The Arrow first flew on March 25, 1958, and was among the

Wilbur R. Franks and his anti-gravity suit, 1962. Source: University of Toronto Archives

Franks Flying Suit

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Franks Flying Suit helped fighter pilots fly to the edge of human performance. The Franks Flying Suit was a Canadian innovation, the world’s first anti-gravity suit used in combat. Designed by Dr Wilbur Franks, the suit used water pressure to counter gravitational effects — or G forces — on pilots when they performed turns, rolls, or other manoeuvres. G forces forced blood to collect or pool in the pilot’s lower body, restricting blood flow to the brain: the pilot could then black out or

Curtiss JN-4 (Can.) and JN-4a airplanes during First World War. Artist: Robert W. Bradford Date: ca. 1966. Source: Ingenium 1967.0891

Curtiss JN-4 Aircraft

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Curtiss JN-4 “Canuck” first earned its reputation as a trainer aircraft during the First World War and later won praise as a jack-of-all trades in postwar aviation. The two-seater Canuck was an improved version of an earlier design and was closely related to the American-made Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. Taking its first flight in 1917, the Canuck — known for its stability — became the standard flight trainer for the British and American air forces during the war. Many Canadians, who later served in

Photograph of Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton taken in March of 1942, a few years before he became Canada's Minister of Defence. From the National Archives of Canada - reference number PA-132648.

Engineering & Technology

Andrew McNaughton, outsmarting the enemy

Algonquin college

Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program During World War I Andrew McNaughton was an artillery specialist and later a counter-battery staff officer of the Canadian Corps. When most thought locating an enemy’s heavy artillery was simply impossible, McNaughton was able to apply scientific methods of artillery warfare to locate enemy guns. He used methods such as sound ranging, which was a way of locating the enemy guns by using the data from the sound of the gunfire. McNaughton’s

Chalmers Jack Machenzie.

Chalmers Jack Mackenzie: ambitious on Canada’s behalf after WWII

Algonquin college

Patrick Jodoin Algonquin College Journalism Program The years during and after World War II were a crucial time for scientific research and development in Canada. Chief among this era’s important figures was Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, who was president of the National Research Council from 1944 to 1952, and who played an instrumental role in forming some of the institutions that have shaped modern Canada. Initially appointed to the NRC in 1935 after a 17-year stint as Dean of Engineering at the

Douglas Copp was Canadian biochemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and found a protein to help cure bone disease. Source: The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Irma Coucill (artist).

Douglas Copp discovers a way to treat osteoporosis

Algonquin college

Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The Manhattan Project, a top secret military plan to produce the first U.S. atomic bomb, was created in 1942. Only a year later, a young, highly-qualified Canadian biochemist was recruited to the team. Douglas Harold Copp was still in his twenties, but he already held a medical doctor degree with honours from the University of Toronto, as well as a second doctorate in biochemistry. His father was a family physician, which was likely what inspired

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

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