Sample clips from the Invention of Hockey!

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Ed Rogers and the invention of the AC Vacuum Tube

Dr. John Hopps of Winnipeg, Mb invents the first electronic pacemaker at the University of Toronto in 1950.

His invention goes on to save literally tens of millions of lives around the world... including his own life!!

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr Charles Best are well known for inventing insulin, but we are going to take you inside the actual U of T building where history happened!!

Then we take you on an amazing journey thru Banting's later career, where he helped save fighter jet pilots and helped NASA astronauts survive high G-forces and invented the human centrifuge!!!

Have we got any James Bond fans in the audience??

This is the Top Secret story of the first Spy Training school: Camp X!!! It was started by Sir William Stephenson "A Man Called Intrepid!" one of the most important and pivotal Canadians of the 20th Century!

You will hear the amazing tale of where Ian Fleming actually got inspiration for the James Bond character in Canada and how Canadian spys had to learn covert communications, explosives, and deadly hand to hand combat to become assassins!!

In this our most epic story yet you will be on the edge of your seat as we take you behind enemy lines and learn the story of the first spy training school!!!

CAMP X!

This episode dives into the story of one of THE most accomplished women in Canadian history.

Dr. Elizabeth "Elsie" McGill, the first woman to get a bachelors degree in Canada, the first woman to get a PHD in aeronautical Engineering making her the worlds first female aeronautical engineer and she goes on to have one the most remarkable careers of anyone in Canada. Elsie also plays a vital role in helping the Allies win WWII with her work on the famous Hawker Hurricane!

PT 2 of our Victorian Era Inventions

If you thought Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, well you'd be wrong.

Let me tell you the real story about Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward, two young inventors from Toronto... and how Thomas Edison BOUGHT A LIGHT BULB FROM TWO CANADIANS!

This episode is Part 1 of a 2 part Victorian Era Retrospective and the first part looks at two fellow East Coasters Frederic Gisborne and Abraham Pineo Gesner.

In part one the massive multi-year effort for Gisborne to span the Atlantic Ocean with a cable to connect the old and new worlds with the lightning on a wire of instant morse code communications in the 1850's

Part two will look at NS Geologist Abraham Gessner and his invention without which those first automobiles weren't going anywhere.

This is the story of Canada's first two female Doctors, Emily Howard Stowe and Jennie Kidd Trout.

This is the amazing story of a very brilliant young man who not only explores the early world of radio communications, he goes on to invent the A.C. vacuum tube which allowed us all to have a radio in the front room and gather around to listen to Saturday night hockey games!