Canadian inventions named in the citizenship guide
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The guide connects Alexander Graham Bell with the telephone, Joseph-Armand Bombardier with snow vehicles, Sandford Fleming with standard time, and Canadian engineering with the Canadarm.
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Other examples named in the guide include Reginald Fessenden’s radio work, Wilder Penfield’s neurosurgery, John Hopps’s pacemaker work, Woodward and Evans’s electric-light work, and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.
These are introductory associations, not claims that complex technologies were created by one person without predecessors or collaborators. The insulin story includes Banting, Best, Macleod and Collip, while the 1923 Nobel Prize was awarded to Banting and Macleod. Distinguish the original Space Shuttle Canadarm from Canadarm2 on the International Space Station.
The guide also names Nobel laureates Gerhard Herzberg, John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard E. Taylor, Michael Smith and Bertram Brockhouse. It describes Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis as influential thinkers about communications and society.
Sources behind this record
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Modern Canada; sections and tables identified in the research record
Parks Canada
Banting, Best, Macleod and Collip; Nobel Prize and shared prize money