Jennie A. Kinnear Came From Port Colborne For Section A Mathematics of the December 1921 Toronto Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).                             Another 1921-2021 Centennial in the History of Canadian Science and Technology. First posted Friday, October 8, 2021 / Yom shishi, 2 Cheshvan, 5782 By David Orenstein December … Continue reading Jennie A. Kinnear of Port Colborne →

Jewish Calendar In Canada First Posted on Friday, September 3, 2021 / Yom Shishi, 26 Elul , 5781 By: David Orenstein Back on March 5 I wrote about the Mi’kmaw Calendar in the CSTHA post “Mi’kmaw Calendar and Traditional Astronomy: A Two-Eyed Seeing Partnership”. So now it’s time to reflect on my own calendric tradition. … Continue reading Jewish Calendar In Canada →

Montreal Engineer New NRC Chairman: One Hundred Years Ago Yesterday Another 1921-2021 Centennial in the History of Canadian Science and Technology First posted Friday, August 20, 2021 / Yom shishi, 12 Elul, 5781 By David Orenstein 2021 continues to be an opportunity for historians of Canadian Science and Technology to celebrate centennials, including today’s commemoration … Continue reading Montreal Engineer New NRC Chairman: One Hundred Years Ago Yesterday →

Telegraph Schools: The Development of Technical Education in Canada By Michael Feagan Developing and using large telecommunications networks requires a body of workers skilled and knowledgeable in operating and maintaining that network. In the nineteenth century this training was done through apprenticeships or learning while working other positions at the telegraph office, such as a … Continue reading Telegraph Schools: The Development of Technical Education in Canada →

Part 3 Creating the Electric Tree: Conflict and Compromise By Michael Feagan Historians of the telephone have often pointed out the social significance of public reactions to the overcrowding of poles and wires in late nineteenth-century cities. One of the first Canadian historians to recognize social conflict over poles and wires was Robert Collins, who … Continue reading Creating the Electric Tree Pt. 3: Conflict and Compromise →

Insulin at 100: July 1921 One of the 1921-2021 Centennials in the History of Canadian Science and Technology First posted Friday, July 23, 2021 / Yom shishi, 14 Av, 5781. By David Orenstein, Danforth CTI, Retired Back in the good old days, pre-pandemic that is, if I had writer’s block on any project, large or … Continue reading Insulin at 100: July 1921 →