Canadian Firsts
Inventions, Sports, Medicine, Space, Women's Rights, Explorers, Science, Research, Arts, World Affairs
by Lisa Wojna
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Canadians don’t spend a lot of time bragging, but as this collection shows, our country has a lot to be proud of—the many amazing firsts that have come from this country and its people and their impact on our culture and the world:
- In 1974, Dr. Joseph MacInnis established Sub-Igloo, the world’s first polar dive station and led the first scientific expedition into the waters of the North Pole
• Alexander MacKenzie was the first recorded explorer to complete the transcontinental crossing of North America
- Greenpeace was founded in Canada as the “Don’t Make a Wave” committee in 1971
- In 1885, Banff National Park was the first patch of land ever recognized as a national park
- The first woman to graduate with a university degree in the British Empire was Grace Annie Lockhart from Mount Allison University
- Canadian-born Gideon Sundback was the first to patent a “separable fastener,” a.k.a. the zipper, in 1913
- The first kidney transplant performed between identical twins took place at Montréal’s Royal Victoria Hospital in 1958
- Montréal’s Maurice Richard was the first hockey player to record a 50-goal season in 1944–45 and the first to score more than 500 goals in his career
- The Hudson’s Bay Company, established on May 2, 1670, is the oldest, continuously operating company on the continent
- The 12.9-kilometre-long Confederation Bridge between mainland Canada and Prince Edward Island is the world’s longest uninterrupted span
- Curling was first organized in Canada in 1807, but the game was played in Québec City in 1759–60 with cannonballs melted into curling stones
- In 1962, at just 15 years old, Petra Burka became the first woman figure skater in the world to complete a triple Salchow.
And so much more…
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Paperback |
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978-1-894864-75-6 |
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1-894864-75-1 |
| Page Count: |
264 |
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5.50" x 8.50" |
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