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Invention and Innovation in Canada
This collection gathers together articles relating to invention and innovation in Canada.
(photograph by Beth A. Robertson, courtesy Canadian Science and Technology Museum)
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Significant Events in Canadian History
The significance of an event cannot be measured scientifically. Every historian, journalist or student could make their own lists. This selection is meant to draw attention to a number of events in Canadian history that left an indelible mark on the lives of the people of the time and an indisputable memory in the minds of later generations.
