Inventors

Trivia Eh? Sir Frederick Grant Banting

Trivia Eh? Banting was Canada’s first Nobel Laureate. Banting was born November 14, 1891 in their farmhouse in Alliston, Ontario. (North of Toronto) In the summer of 1921, Banting was being funded for his work on insulin by his father & brother – he was not receiving a salary. During WWI, he received the Canadian [...]

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Trivia Eh? Sir Sandford Fleming

Trivia Eh? Fleming was born in 1827 in Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1845. Designed the first Canadian postage stamp, known as the Three-Penny Beaver issued in 1851. Was Chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway while being built coast-to-coast. He oversaw the surveys of the prairies and Rocky Mountains.. While retired, Fleming devised a [...]

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