Canadiana-Inventions

Table hockey might not seem like a revolutionary invention today, but in 1932, it was a holiday miracle. Toronto native Donald H. Munro Sr. couldn’t afford store-bought gifts during the...

Back in 1909, Toronto bowling alley owner Thomas F. Ryan got tired of hearing his patrons complain that ten-pin bowling was just too physically demanding. So, in true Canadian fashion,...

It started with a simple (and slightly absurd) request at a Quebec diner in 1957: add cheese curds to fries. Restaurateur Fernand LaChance famously warned, "Ça va faire une maudite...

Tractor manufacturing has deep roots in Canadian history. When James G. Cockshutt founded the Brantford Plow Works in 1877, the company would go on to build rugged farm machinery that...

Hey, who says AM radio isn’t cool? If Quebec-born inventor Reginald Fessenden could see this piece paying tribute to his groundbreaking 1906 amplitude-modulated radio invention, we think he’d agree that...

Peter Lymburner Robertson was demonstrating a spring-loaded screwdriver when the blade slipped from the screw slot and badly cut his hand. Rather than accept the flaw, he decided to invent...

  “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” When Brantford, Ontario inventor Alexander Graham Bell spoke those famous words into his experimental telephone on March 10, 1876, it marked the...

Toronto was once home to major typewriter manufacturers like the Underwood Elliot Fisher Ltd. facility, where this 1950s Vintage Underwood Typewriter (circa 1951) was built. Today, the machine lives on...

Peter Lymburner Robertson was demonstrating a spring-loaded screwdriver when the blade slipped from the screw slot and badly cut his hand. Rather than accept the flaw, he decided to invent...

Peter Lymburner Robertson was demonstrating a spring-loaded screwdriver when the blade slipped from the screw slot and badly cut his hand. Rather than accept the flaw, he set out to...