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On June 23 — which marks International Women in Engineering Day 2019 — Ingenium will open its doors to volunteer editors eager to participate in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. In partnership with Engineers Canada, this free event, hosted at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, will celebrate the achievements of women in engineering through the editing and creation of Wikipedia pages. “An edit-a-thon puts facts on the page, allows us to change biases, and adding translations in both French and English

Good day, my reading friend, and welcome to a special edition of our blog / bulletin / thingee. Three quarters of a century after the Normandy landings of June 1944, yours truly would like to highlight a somewhat forgotten aspect of the history of No. 425 Squadron (Alouette), Royal Canadian Air Force. Indeed, I intend to examine the 127-day period (1 May-5 September 1945) during which this famous unit received and used British-designed Avro Lancaster four engine heavy bombers made in Canada.

Hellooo there, my reading friend, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to examine the picture above, drawn from the bowels of the 25 May 1969 issue of a weekly newspaper from Montréal, Québec, that we both know very well, Le Petit Journal . Are we all ready? Perfect. Let’s go. There will be a test. Our central character of the week, the American Larry Brown, began to take an interest in model rocketry / space modelling / astromodelling around 1959, and ... What do I hear? You want to

Half a century ago, you would have regularly heard Canadians discussing the Apollo moon landings and the future prospects of space travel, but there would have been far less talk about the state of water or air pollution. Today, we hear far less about other planets than the environmental state of this one. Much of our current discussion is voicing frustration and distress over the possibility that the very technological progress enabling us to visit other worlds may have done irreparable harm to

A big hello, my reading friend. You will be happy to hear (read?), or not, that our subject of the week has, oh surprise, a direct link to the main fields of activity of my august employer, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario. Yours truly found said subject as I was going through Le Petit Journal . Specifically, I was going through the 25 May 1969 issue of this weekly from Montréal, Québec, no longer published today. Would you like to be on the Moon to spend your holidays, my