Canadian Innovations

Canadian innovations have helped shaped the world we live in today. Learn more about these innovations, and the Canadian inventors behind them, with Historica Canada’s video series, produced in partnership with the Rideau Hall Foundation

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Olivia Poole: The Ojibwe woman who invented the baby jumper

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Olivia Poole
Olivia Poole invented the Jolly Jumper for her children in 1910.

Foghorn: the lifesaving Canadian invention no one patented or profited from

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Foghorn
The world’s first steam-operated fog alarm was installed on Partridge Island in 1859.

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Olivia Poole: The Ojibwe woman who invented the baby jumper

2020
Olivia Poole

Converto-Braille: the innovation that opened up a new world for the visually impaired

2020
Converto-Braille: the innovation that opened up a new world for the visually impaired

Dr. Maude Abbott: the Canadian woman who paved the way for modern heart surgery

2020
Maude Abbott

Foghorn: the lifesaving Canadian invention no one patented or profited from

2020
Foghorn