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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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The Owens Art Gallery opened in 1895 on the campus of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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Science North, a science centre serving Northern Ontario from Sudbury, opened on June 19, 1984, and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on October 4, 1984.
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The Cosmodome in Laval, Quebec, opened in 1994. It is devoted to public education about space sciences.
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The MacBride Museum in Whitehorse opened to the public in 1952 as Yukon’s first museum, displaying its collection in the Old Telegraph Office. It was renamed in 1967 for co-founder William MacBride, in recognition of his role in preserving Yukon heritage.
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TELUS World of Science – Edmonton opened on July 1, 1984, as the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre. It replaced the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, Canada’s first planetarium, which had opened in September 1960.
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The Comox Air Force Museum commemorates the history of 19 Wing Comox. Founded in 1982 within the Air Force Indoctrination School, it became an accredited Canadian Forces museum and opened to the public on September 12, 1987.
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TELUS Spark in Calgary traces its origins to the Calgary Centennial Planetarium, opened on July 1, 1967. The science centre opened at its present site in 2011.
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The New Brunswick Museum in Saint John maintains natural history collections that support research, exhibitions and education in botany, geology, palaeontology and zoology.
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The Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montréal recalls that in 1904 Herbert Berliner, son of the gramophone’s inventor Emile Berliner, opened Canada’s first recording studio on Peel Street in Montréal.
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The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston opened to the public in 1957. Its first home was a building bequeathed by Agnes McCausland Etherington to support art and community.
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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia opened in 2010, putting UBC’s vast natural history collections on public display.
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The Ontario Science Centre officially opened in Toronto on September 26, 1969. Architect Raymond Moriyama was commissioned in 1964 to design the centre as an Ontario project marking Canada’s Centennial.
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The Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa tells Canada’s story of science and technology through hands-on learning. Its permanent galleries explore steam-powered travel, sound technologies, natural resources and medical innovations.
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The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia supports the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by building close working relationships with Indigenous peoples who have a claim to, or interest in, the material in its care.
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McGill University’s Redpath Museum in Montréal opened in 1882 to preserve and display the natural history collections of Sir William Dawson.
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Lee Maracle was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017. The appointment recognizes an Indigenous writer and teacher recognized for her literary contributions.
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Canadarm2, a 17-metre robotic arm, is part of Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station and was extensively involved in assembling it. It moves end-over-end around the station, can handle loads of up to 116,000 kg, and grapples visiting spacecraft; with Dextre and the Mobile Base System it makes up Canada’s robotic contribution.
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In 1961 James Till and Ernest McCulloch, scientists at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, reported cautious findings they called “spleen colony-forming units.” In later years they and their collaborators established that these were stem cells and explained their properties, setting the stage for all later stem-cell research.
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In 1904 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company opened its first Canadian marine station at Pointe-à-la-Renommée, Quebec, one of six stations that began radio communication between ships at sea and the coast. The network grew into an indispensable navigation aid, and the federal government began regulating the airwaves as early as 1905.
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At his father’s home near Brantford, Ontario, Alexander Graham Bell conceived the fundamental principle of the telephone on 26 July 1874. There, on 3 and 4 August 1876, he publicly demonstrated his patented invention, and on 10 August he made a long-distance call, to Paris, 13 kilometres away.
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In 1768 the Hudson’s Bay Company sent two British astronomers to Prince of Wales Fort, on Hudson Bay, to observe the 1769 transit of Venus. It began more than forty years of HBC cooperation with the Royal Society of London in astronomy, meteorology, cartography and natural history in the North, with Indigenous collaborators sharing their deep knowledge of the land, plants and animals.
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Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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James Peebles, born in Winnipeg in 1935 and a graduate of the University of Manitoba, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
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Photo: Juan Diego Soler · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context