Canada History Week 2018: Science, Creativity and Innovation

Watch 10 Young Citizens videos that show how science and technology have changed the way we work, live and play.

Robert Ramsay Wright was a zoologist, and an educator. Wright became a Professor of Natural History at the University of Toronto in 1874, where he taught for 38 years. In his last years in Canada Wright publicly supported the increasingly popular but later discredited eugenics movement. By 1911 he had come to believe that the concepts which lay behind this movement represented one of the “new sciences” emerging from biology. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Elijah McCoy was an African-Canadian mechanical engineer and inventor best known for his groundbreaking innovations in industrial lubrication. (Image Credit: Moorland-Spingarn Research Centre, Howard University)

Made in Canada : 50 creative and innovative contributions Canadians made to the world.