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A spliced photo, from left to right: Shaun the Sheep in front of a model of ESA’s European Service Module, a top view into a red bucket containing thousands of light-brown, rod-shaped pellets, and a toddler wearing a wool hat and wool sweater holds a grownup’s finger.

3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the March edition, we explain why wool keeps us warm, how it can be used to improve soil, and how it can help prevent fires in spacecraft!

A large impact crater viewed from the rim, a woodern spoon full of small yellow grains, a close up of a forearm being tattooed.

3 things you should know about the untapped potential of millet, the permanence of tattoos, and asteroid airbursts

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the February edition, they explain why millet might be a super crop in the future, why tattoos are permanent, and what happens when an asteroid explodes before impact.

Black and white photograph of 6 uniformed Black porters standing in a line in front of a train. Some porters are smiling and looking at each other.

Rail Transportation

The Face of the Rails: Black Porters in Canada

Carleton University

Black porters were integral to the day-to-day operations of Canadian railways from the late 19th to mid 20th century. The Black men who made up the majority of porters already experienced racism in Canadian society at large. In the context of their work, they faced the intensely racist and discriminatory policies of the railway companies and the white-led unions. These experiences made political and labour leaders out of many of them, as they fought discrimination on and off the rails. The role

Three images side by side: a toilet bowl expelling a cloud of droplets, a gloved hand holding a test tube containing a small plant, and an infrared view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io showing spots of volcanic activity covering the moon.

3 things you should know about flushing the toilet, artificial photosynthesis, and volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the January edition, they explain why you should close the toilet lid before flushing, how we could grow plants without light, and extended volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io.

A bushplane, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. A new text panel sits in front of the aircraft: a gray structure with wood-tone side panels and dark metal legs. Its backlit surface presents the name of the aircraft, a selection of images, and interpretive texts. A life-size display of a dock sits to the right, followed by another aircraft and panel.

Whispering Loudly: An Update about the “Quiet Updates”

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Small changes can add up to big results! The look-and-feel at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum is evolving. See how “Quiet Updates” are making an impact.

A rear view of a person wearing a yellow coat and backpack in winter, a close-up view of bright red poinsettias with small yellow central flowers.

Earth & Environment

Two things you should know about the science of wind chill, and the Orion spacecraft's selfies.

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

For the December edition, we explain the science of wind chill and the spectacular selfies captured by the Orion spacecraft.

Yvonne Peters, a disability rights activist, with her service dog at Parliament Hill. Other demonstrators are in the background.

Part 1 of A Short History of Accessible Commercial Air Travel in Canada

Cassandra McKenney

Carleton University

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation’s collection is home to a large number of aircraft that were designed for everything from scientific experimentation, to warfare, to commercial transportation. Many previous Ingenium Channel entries have explored the fascinating technical details and histories of these planes, but this article focuses on another important element of Canada’s aviation history: passengers. Specifically, this article examines how accessibility legislation and

A photograph of the large, multicoloured and multimedia Northern Lights mural.

"Northern Lights" 3-D Mural: A Colourful Artistic Tribute to Canada’s Jet Age Beginnings

Valerie Kaiyang Wood

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In 1964, the Winnipeg International Airport opened as part the Department of Transport’s Air Terminal Building project begun by the Canadian government in the mid 1950s that resulted in the production of large, modern airport terminals in Gander, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The project was overseen by a chief architect from the Department of Transport, meaning the terminals had a cohesive modernist design, but each terminal was designed with unique features

A woman examining a bottle of olive oil in a grocery store, Gravel terrain in beige with boulders identified in pink, craters in purple, and crater rims in turquoise, A close up of the tread of a winter tire showing deep, wide, jagged grooves and wavy sipes.

3 things you should know about food fraud, how winter tires work and Canadian artificial intelligence headed for the Moon.

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

For the November edition, we explain how you may unknowingly be a victim of food fraud, how Canadian artificial intelligence will soon launch to the Moon, and how winter tires really work.

A black and white photograph taken from the air. The photo shows a series of docks with buildings on the port, and city streets behind. The Halifax Citadel is in the background.

Library and Archives

Ingenium Archives “City Series”: Halifax

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The “City Series” is composed of short articles highlighting selections of historical photos from cities and towns throughout Canada. In today’s installment, we focus on Halifax, the provincial capital of Nova Scotia.

This photograph shows an assortment of Unifor Local 222 ephemera. It includes Patrick J. Brown’s 1937 United Autoworkers of America Local 222 union membership card and an assortment of union buttons from the 1970s to the 1980s that advocate for increased job security, shorter work weeks, and the rights of retired General Motors employees.

Collection Development

Industrial Technology

Road Transportation

Community, Camaraderie, and Producing Historical Scholarship

University of Toronto

In May 2022, I had the pleasure of working alongside five fantastic Jackman Scholars-in-Residence undergraduate students on Contesting Closure: Life Stories of Work and Community in Oshawa’s Motor City, 1980-2019.

Three images side by side: A little girl smells a sunflower, the DART spacecraft’s impact into the asteroid Dimorphos, and a candy apple

Engineering & Technology

3 things you should know about how the DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid, how we have more than five senses, and how the science of caramel can make you a better cook!

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the October edition, they explain how the DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid millions of kilometers from Earth, how we have many more than five senses, and how the science of caramel can make you a better cook

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