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Canadian Contributions and Participation in the Physics of Motion and Motion Technology

Canadian Contributions and Participation in the Physics of Motion and Motion Technology. Joseph Armand Bombardier (1907-1964). invented/created first snow vehicle at age 15 – creator of the brand ski doo in Valcourt, Quebec Also involved in other methods of transportation - planes.

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Canadian Contributions and Participation in the Physics of Motion and Motion Technology

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  1. Canadian Contributions and Participation in the Physics of Motion and Motion Technology

  2. Joseph Armand Bombardier(1907-1964) • invented/created first snow vehicle at age 15 – creator of the brand ski doo in Valcourt, Quebec • Also involved in other methods of transportation - planes http://www.townshipsheritage.com/Eng/Hist/FamousInv/bombardier.html

  3. http://www.fjab.qc.ca/en/content/jab/biographie1926_1938.htm

  4. http://www.fjab.qc.ca/en/content/jab/biographie1959_1964.htm

  5. Wallace Rupert Turnbull(1870-1954)

  6. Wallace Rupert Turnbull • Born in Saint John, NB. • Built the first wind tunnel in Canada (1902). • Inventor of the variable pitch propeller.

  7. Elsie MacGill (1905 – 1980) • First woman electrical engineer • Turned a railway boxcar factory in Thunder Bay Ontario into an aircraft manufacturing plant • employed over 4000 workers, many of them female. • Produced 23 Hawker Hurricane fighter planes each week during WWII

  8. Avro Arrow - 1958 http://www.avroarrow.org/AvroArrow/index.html http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10220

  9. Marc Garneau • the first Canadian in space • In 2001 he was appointed Executive Vice President of the Canadian Space Agency. http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-75-369

  10. Roberta Bondar • first Canadian woman astronaut in space • the world’s first neurologist in space • special interest in space medicine http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-402-e.html

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