- 2026-10-08This researcher and entomologist from the British West Indies was a leading expert on insect morphology. He significantly advanced scientific…
- 2026-10-08As Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill (1898-1907), Rutherford, in collaboration with Frederick Soddy, made fundamental discoveries respecting radioactivity which…
- 2026-10-08Since the mid-17th century, professional pilots have shaped the history of navigation on the St. Lawrence River by guiding ships…
- 2026-10-08The first Canadian marine station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was established here in 1904, one of six installations…
- 2026-10-08In the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of thousands of Italian men came to Canada in search of…
- 2026-10-08In 1807, Ezekiel Hart, a member of a prominent family, became the first Jew ever elected to the Legislative Assembly…
- 2026-10-08Near here, in an improvised fort at the Long Sault of the Ottawa River, on 2 May 1660, Adam Dollard…
- 2026-10-08Édouard-André Barnard (1835–1898), Jean-Charles Chapais Jr. (1850–1926), and Damase Rossignol (1848–1901) established the first industrial dairy school in Canada near…
- 2026-10-08By the accurate determination of points on the earth’s surface, a geodetic survey establishes a positional reference system for surveys,…
- 2026-10-08The first patent of invention was issued by the Province of lower Canada in the Parliament Buildings which stood on…