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Pierre Dansereau was both a scientist and a scientific communicator.

Earth & Environment

Connecting the dots: discovering our ecology

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Canada is home to many of the influential voices that speak against the unrestricted use of our world’s limited resources. One of those voices is Pierre Dansereau. In a time where ecology was not a popular avenue of academic research, Dansereau helped introduce the concept of the ecosystem to a new generation. Dansereau took geography, geology and climatology and combined the different aspects that each reveal to show the connections and chains

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Today it’s taken for granted that we can document our life using photos and videos. But these quick, effortless snapshots would not have been possible without Willard Boyle’s invention of the charged-couple device, or CCD. The CCD was invented during a brainstorming session between him and his colleague, George Smith, at New Jersey’s Bell Labs. The device is a grid of semiconductors that can be used to collect photons and convert them to

Alexander Graham Bell was highly interested in hearing and speech, a passion which led to his invention of the telephone. Source: Library and Archives Canada. Author: Moffett Studio.

Engineering & Technology

Playing it by ear

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Alexander Graham Bell was interested in both speech and hearing, a pursuit which was likely spurred by the fact that both his mother and wife suffered from hearing loss. Bell first worked with his father, who was a speech therapist, and then took a position in Boston teaching deaf children to speak. One of his methods was to hold a balloon to the chest of his patients so they could hear sound. It was these experiments that led to the invention of

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

Dr. Norman Bethune stands to the right of a Canadian Blood transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War. Source: Library and Archives Canada, reference number: PA-117423.

An innovative surgeon ahead of his time

Algonquin college

Amelia Buchanan Algonquin College Journalism Program Every day of the Great Depression, Henry Norman Bethune saw people living in poverty who could not afford to pay doctors. So he opened a clinic for the unemployed in 1935 and treated patients for free. Bethune firmly believed in universal health care, but at the time the idea was dismissed as too radical. He never lived to see his dream of socialized health care in Canada come true. The Montreal surgeon specialized in tuberculosis, a disease

Dr. Maude Abbott

A doctor’s life: not for the faint of heart

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Dr. Maude Abbott was world famous for her work in congenital heart disease. Also known as the “beneficent tornado,” she had an unstoppable energy. Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec, Abbott lost her parents as an infant. In 1890 she became the first woman to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from McGill University. After graduating at the top of her class, she was denied access to the McGill’s medical school. Unnerved by her rejection, Abbott studied

Frederick Banting

The father of insulin

Algonquin college

Shawna O’Neill Algonquin College Journalism Program After suffering the loss of a good friend to diabetes, a deadly disease at the time, Frederick Banting’s interest in medicine evolved, leading him to develop one of the greatest Canadian discoveries: insulin. During the summer of 1921 Frederick Banting and his colleague Charles Best successfully isolated insulin, using a professor’s empty laboratory at the University of Toronto. With the aid of Dr. James Collip, insulin was then successfully

Canada’s 1st open heart surgery

Engineering & Technology

Canada's 1st open heart surgery

University of Alberta

In 1956, John Callaghan conducted Canada’s 1st successful open-heart surgery at the University of Alberta (UAlberta) Hospital. While the surgery performed may be ‘simple’ by today’s standards, at the time it pushed the boundaries of modern heart surgery and knowledge. Pioneering advances In 1946, John Callaghan graduated from University of Toronto. While there, he and fellow cardia surgeon Wilfred Bigelow developed new cardiac surgical techniques to slow the heart for heart surgery. In 1951, the

Protecting Canada & the world’s fresh water resources

Earth & Environment

Protecting Canada and the world’s fresh water resources

University of Alberta

Retired University of Alberta professor, David Schindler, is one of Canada’s most powerful environmental advocates. In the 1960s he identified that detergent phosphates were polluting and killing Canada’s lakes, and in the ‘70s and ‘80s he identified acid rain as the cause of widespread fish deaths. In 1968, he became a founding director of the Canada’s Experimental Lakes Project. He and his team discovered that the Great Lakes and other fresh water bodies in Canada and the US were being

Canadian Museum of History, 2005.3.1; gift of the Gander Airport Authority

Prismasteel Furniture System

Canadian Museum of History

Throughout the 1960s, airport terminals across the country featured Canadian-made furniture and artwork. Most of these buildings included variations of a seating design created by Robin Bush. After studies at the Vancouver School of Art and a stint in the Canadian Navy during World War II, Bush (and his then business partner, Earle Morrison) began producing furniture of his own design. In 1957, Canadian Office and School Furniture in Preston, Ontario, began producing Bush’s Prismasteel line. The

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