OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND!

Did you know wireless phones were a Canadian invention?? Envisioned by a young Canadian boy of 9 yrs old?? in the 1870's!!! That's right, I'm going to take you back in time to a prophetic carriage ride where young Reggie will dream up an idea that changes the world. You'll then hear how Bell Canada brought in the first mobile phone system... in 1947!!!!!! And how Nortel beat Apple, and everyone el...

In this episode, we go over some of the Avro Arrow employees' post-cancellation legacy and touch on some of the many contributions by Canadians to NASA and the space program!! #AVRO #AVROARROW #JETAIRCRAFT #NASA #AERONAUTICALENGINEERING #AVROCANADA #CANADIANHISTORY #CANADA

The mighty, amazing Avro Arrow!!!! The enduring story that won't die!! Think you've heard it all??? Well, wait till you hear the story of the possibility that one that got away!!!!?!?!!? Well, you've never heard some of these details in a thorough and exciting story that takes you back to the glory days when the Arrow was soaring the skies over Person Airport. You'll hear about the back-room polit...

Dr. John Hopps of Winnipeg, Mb invents the first electronic pacemaker at the University of Toronto in 1950. His invention goes on to save literally tens of millions of lives around the world... including his own life!!

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr Charles Best are well known for inventing insulin, but we are going to take you inside the actual U of T building where history happened!! Then we take you on an amazing journey thru Banting's later career, where he helped save fighter jet pilots and helped NASA astronauts survive high G-forces and invented the human centrifuge!!!

Have we got any James Bond fans in the audience?? This is the Top Secret story of the first Spy Training school: Camp X!!! It was started by Sir William Stephenson "A Man Called Intrepid!" one of the most important and pivotal Canadians of the 20th Century! You will hear the amazing tale of where Ian Fleming actually got inspiration for the James Bond character in Canada and how Canadian spys had...

This episode dives into the story of one of THE most accomplished women in Canadian history. Dr. Elizabeth "Elsie" McGill, the first woman to get a bachelors degree in Canada, the first woman to get a PHD in aeronautical Engineering making her the worlds first female aeronautical engineer and she goes on to have one the most remarkable careers of anyone in Canada. Elsie also plays a vital role in...

PT 2 of our Victorian Era Inventions If you thought Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, well you'd be wrong. Let me tell you the real story about Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward, two young inventors from Toronto... and how Thomas Edison BOUGHT A LIGHT BULB FROM TWO CANADIANS!

This episode is Part 1 of a 2 part Victorian Era Retrospective looking at two fellow East Coasters Frederic Gisborne and Abraham Pineo Gesner. In part one the massive multi-year effort for Gisborne to span the Atlantic Ocean with a cable to connect the old and new worlds with the lightning on a wire of instant morse code communications in the 1850's Part two will look at NS Geologist Abraham Gessn...

This is the story of Canada's first two female Doctors, Emily Howard Stowe and Jennie Kidd Trout.

This is the amazing story of a very brilliant young man who not only explores the early world of radio communications, he goes on to invent the A.C. vacuum tube which allowed us all to have a radio in the front room and gather around to listen to Saturday night hockey games!

This episode will take you back and explore the invention of hockey in Canada. Some call it Ice Hockey some call it Hurley on ice, we call it shinny, or just the Good 'ol Hockey Game! You'll also learn about the invention of key hockey equipment like the goalie mask and the jockstrap as well as the invention of those table top rod hockey games we all played as kids in the 60,s and 70's!

The introduction to the OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND! Podcast.