In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Terrie Pereira – who talks about her volunteer work with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in her own words. By Terrie Pereira I started volunteering with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in the summer of 2013. Around the same time, I was taking up flying lessons again at the Rockliffe Flying Club, after taking a

In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Manel Zeghal – who currently volunteers with the Canada Agriculture and Food Musuem. By Manel Zeghal I used to live across the street from the burial site of my personal hero, Tommy Douglas. The famous words of the man dubbed as “The Greatest Canadian” are etched into his grave marker, “Courage, my friends, 'tis not too

It’s National Volunteer Week 2018, and here at Ingenium we have so much to celebrate! Over the coming week, the Ingenium Channel will be profiling just a few of our amazing volunteers. Today, we take a bird’s-eye view of volunteers at Ingenium – and why they mean so much. The old proverb, “Many hands make light work” seems especially fitting in the context of volunteerism at Ingenium. At each of our three museums – the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and

NatureWatch is a community that engages all Canadians in collecting scientific information on nature to understand our changing environment. There are five programs which are part of NatureWatch: frogwatch, plantwatch, milkweedwatch, wormwatch, and icewatch. Visit naturewatch.ca to find out how you can contribute to scientific research!