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Failure and Culture Panel

Business & Economics

New book celebrates the upside of failure

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Canadians need to learn how to embrace their failures – and use them as opportunities to grow and learn – rather than sweeping them under the rug. That’s the key message in Canadian Failures: Stories of Building Toward Success, a new book by Alex Benay, Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada. “Personally speaking, I just don’t think we talk about failure enough to get better,” says Benay in a candid interview about his book and the unique approach behind it. “The process was to

Postcard of the Banff Springs Hotel, featuring the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

The Canadian Railway Hotels

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. In addition to building the rail system across the country, Canada’s two national railway companies (Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Pacific Railway) built a string of grand hotels in the major cities and resort areas of the nation.

Production of Insulin

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This type of bottle was introduced to make insulin widely available to people with diabetes. This insulin bottle, filled at the University of Toronto’s Connaught Laboratories in the 1930s, represents the transformation of insulin from a promising treatment into a self-administered drug that has improved the lives of people with diabetes the world over. After University of Toronto researchers isolated insulin in 1922, they immediately faced challenges in producing the diabetes-regulating drug

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

Victoria Bridge and the St. Lawrence Seaway

Business & Economics

How the St. Lawrence Seaway made trade go swimmingly in Canada

The St. Lawrence Seaway is a massive system of locks, canals and channels that link the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. In essence, it’s a trade route that helped anchor Ontario and Quebec as the economic powerhouses they are now. The seaway became open for commercial use in 1959, costing a total of $470 million dollars – most of which was funded by the federal government. From Montreal to Lake Erie, the creation of the route was a serious undertaking. The National Research Council made

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

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

Business & Economics

Paul Santerre - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Paul Santerre is a chemical engineer. He co-founded Interface Biologics Inc., a Toronto-based health technologies company. He invented Endexo tehchnology, a unique compound of surface-modifying macromolecules that are added to plastics during the manufacturing process of medical devices. The special coating helps reduce clotting when the devices are used to treat patients, reducing the risk of adverse reactions and potentially deadly complications. Now being used in commercialized products in

Business & Economics

Audra Renyi - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Audra Renyi is the executive director of the non-profit World Wide Hearing and the founder of earAccess. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street dealing with private equity firms. Ms. Renyi has worked with Doctors Without Borders, in Chad; in Rwanda she served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and she worked as director of development at Canada World Youth. World Wide Hearing Foundation uses affordable technology, market incentives and rapid training to help underprivileged people

Business & Economics

David Brown - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

David Brown is a biotechnology entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for youth entrepreneurship in Canada’s biotechnology sector. Mr. Brown serves as the co-founder and COO of Chinova Bioworks and is the founder of MyCodev Group which he founded in order to resolve a lack of supply of chitosan, a valuable pharmaceutical ingredient that is essential in a wide variety of medical devices and drugs. Mr. Brown’s innovative technology produces chitosan directly from a fungal fermentation, a process

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