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Road Transportation

Dump Truck

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The quick spill. Perhaps the greatest time-saver for the modern labourer is– of all things– the good ol’ dump truck. Think about it. Instead of needing a group of strong backs to shovel a big load of dirt or gravel or whatever out of the box of a truck, the dump truck just, well, dumps it. Credit for the first one goes to Robert Mawhinney. In 1920, the Saint John New Brunswicker put together a truck equipped with a special dump box in back. The dump box was fitted with a mast, cable, and winch

Foghorn - Library and Archives Canada

Engineering & Technology

Foghorn

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The coded voice of danger. The lower the frequency of a musical note, the farther that note can be heard. Simple physics. Robert Foulis grasped this fact for himself one foggy evening in his home of Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1853. Walking toward his house, he heard his daughter playing the piano. As the notes drifted on the night air, he noticed he could hear the lowest notes clearest. Well aware of the dangers of fog to shipping, Robert put his personal discovery to good use. Knowing that

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Cirque du Soleil

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The twenty-first century circus. In 1984, Guy Laliberté had a vision for the next century’s circus. The street performer from Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec imagined a spectacle that would centre on the virtuosity of the world’s finest performing artists. No prancing horses and snarling tigers, s’il vous plaît, no faded big tops or sawdust-strewn floors at local hockey arenas. This new circus would amaze with feats of alomost inhuman strength and agility, dazzle with colourful costumes and brilliant

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Household Technology

Wringer Washer

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The first home appliance. Machines to wash clothes have been around since at least 1791. Yet the washing machine as we know it today can be traced to 1843. In that year, John Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick, added a wringer to a washing machine. The top roll of his wringer washer was spring-loaded to rise and fall to accomodate the thickness of the laundry running through the rolls. This mechanism, activated by turning a crank, meant continuous pressure was applied to wet clothes to

Northern harrier

Earth & Environment

Bird's Eye View

Churchill Northern Studies Centre

Bird’s Eye View It’s the golden hour of Churchill weather: the temperature is above zero every day, the sun is shining, but the mosquitoes have not yet poked their ugly proboscises out of the ponds. The conditions make it the ideal season for birdwatching, and both bird researchers and the Spring’s Wings Learning Vacation have taken full advantage of that opportunity, bringing their knowledge and observations to the CNSC. Among the species sighted was a parasitic jaeger, a piratical predatory

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson

Engineering & Technology

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson: Prolific Inventor and Father of Carbide

St. Catharines Museum

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson was born in 1860 to a struggling farming family in Princeton, Upper Canada. When Thomas was 14, his father died, and his mother worked hard teaching guitar and painting lessons to put her children through school. Lucky for her, Thomas would soon become a prolific inventor and forever change the history of industry. At the young age of 21, Thomas showed great intellectual promise by patenting electric arc lighting. As a result of his invention, in 1881, some shops and

Household Technology

Canada is leading innovation in Virtual Reality video. 360VR, portal navigation, free education and tourism experiences for VR devices using 360video content.

I innovate with VR video. I made this for Canada’s 150th Coast to Coast in 360Video I’ve always had an interest in electronics, optics, videography, biology and psychology. After obtaining a degree in Video Systems Integration, I spent most of my life working for the video telecom industry. Designing,improving and troubleshooting internet and video systems to keep pace with the advances in technology. I also work as an innovator and researcher in my free time, and for the 5 years leading up to

Neutron Research With Plants

Science To Solve World Hunger: Neutron Research With Plants

Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering

University of Saskatchewan scientists use neutron beams to observe plant roots in soil to aid breeding of drought-resistant crops. Story written by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, in cooperation with the Global Institute for Food Security and the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre. Two hundred years ago, the problem of the world’s population outpacing our ability to feed ourselves was identified. Thomas Malthus, in 1798, proposed that the world’s food supply would soon be insufficient

Bonnie Mallard - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Bonnie Mallard is a professor of immunogenetics in the Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. Dr. Mallard created the High Immune Response Technology (HIR), which manages livestock health through genetic identification. This sustainable and efficient approach was designed to meet consumer expectations for healthy, non-GMO products while maintaining profitability and addressing global food demands. Dr. Mallard has been published extensively with over 100

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

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