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Goodlawyer Offers Free Legal Advice To Canadian Entrepreneurs For Canadian Innovation Week

Calgary — Canadians have shown a lot of grit over the past year. Many...

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Virtual Field Trips with Ingenium

Experience Ingenium’s museums on a virtual field trip! Students can meet with museum educators...

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Dump Truck

The quick spill. Perhaps the greatest time-saver for the modern labourer is—of all things—the...

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Baggage Tag

The traceable luggage. Even the simplest innovations need to start somewhere. Consider the humble...

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Kayak

The high-speed hunter. The kayak is the hunter’s boat in name; it means exactly...

Elsie MacGill courtesy of Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation

Aircraft Mass Production

The queen of the hurricanes. Elsie MacGill’s life was one of firsts: the first...

Black and white illustration of the first lubricating cup invention

Lubricating Cup

The real McCoy. It was so much better than all the other kinds that...

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Roller Bearing

The friction reducer. Canada’s greatest contribution to the design of modern machines is the...

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Compound Steam Engine

The more efficient generator. Innovation is not usually invention. The compound steam engine is...

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