canadian inventions grade 8 history s. skelton. trivial pursuit chris haney and scott abbott
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Canadian InventionsGrade 8 History
S. Skelton
Trivial Pursuit
Chris Haney and Scott Abbott
The Paint Roller
Norman Breakey
The CPR Mannequin
Dianne Croteau
The Jetliner
James Floyd
Standard Time
Sandford Fleming
Zippers
Gideon Sundback
The Electric Lightbulb
Henry Woodward
5-Pin Bowling
T.E. Ryan
IMAX
Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr
Canadarm
SPAR Aeronautics and the National Aeronautical Establishment
Electron Microscope
Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus
Basketball
James Naismith
Prosthetic Hands
Helmut Lucas
The Snowmobile
Joseph Armand Bombardier
The Goalie Mask
Jacques Plante
The Odometer
Samuel McKeen
The Insulin Process
Frederick Banting, JJ MacLeod, Charles Best
Lawn Sprinklers
Elijah McCoy
Anti-Gravity Suits
Wilbur Rounding Franks
Walkie-Talkies
Donald Hings
Jolly Jumpers
Olivia Poole
Garbage Bags
Harry Wasylyk
Kerosene
Abraham Gesner
Snow Blowers
Arthur Sicard
Acrylics/Plexiglass
William Chalmers
Heart Pacemaker
John A Hopps and Wilfred Bigelow
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
You will select an important Canadian who has contributed to technology in the 20th century (1900s).
You will research this Canadian and complete a biography, outlining his or her most important work, and explain how his or her contributions have changed life as we know it.
You will work independently on this – no partners or groups.
Your Assignment: