Canadian InventionsGrade 8 History

S. Skelton

Trivial Pursuit

Chris Haney and Scott Abbott

The Paint Roller

Norman Breakey

The CPR Mannequin

Dianne Croteau

The Jetliner

James Floyd

Standard Time

Sandford Fleming

Zippers

Gideon Sundback

The Electric Lightbulb

Henry Woodward

5-Pin Bowling

T.E. Ryan

IMAX

Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr

Canadarm

SPAR Aeronautics and the National Aeronautical Establishment

Electron Microscope

Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus

Basketball

James Naismith

Prosthetic Hands

Helmut Lucas

The Snowmobile

Joseph Armand Bombardier

The Goalie Mask

Jacques Plante

The Odometer

Samuel McKeen

The Insulin Process

Frederick Banting, JJ MacLeod, Charles Best

Lawn Sprinklers

Elijah McCoy

Anti-Gravity Suits

Wilbur Rounding Franks

Walkie-Talkies

Donald Hings

Jolly Jumpers

Olivia Poole

Garbage Bags

Harry Wasylyk

Kerosene

Abraham Gesner

Snow Blowers

Arthur Sicard

Acrylics/Plexiglass

William Chalmers

Heart Pacemaker

John A Hopps and Wilfred Bigelow

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

You will select an important Canadian who has contributed to technology in the 20th century (1900s).

You will research this Canadian and complete a biography, outlining his or her most important work, and explain how his or her contributions have changed life as we know it.

You will work independently on this – no partners or groups.

Your Assignment: