OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND!
Professor Mark Rector
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About This Podcast
Canadian Inventors, inventions and firsts!
This fun and informative podcast will take you on an amazing journey to hear some of the amazing, funny and engaging stories about the whole history of Canadian inventions, inventors and firsts, taken right from the pages of the best-selling book OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND by Professor Mark Rector.
You'll laugh, you'll maybe shed a tear or two, but you will probably learn something about this vast, interesting and innovative country of ours. But mostly you will certainly have your chest bursting with pride, and probably pop a few buttons off of it!
With his funny and immersive storytelling ability, Professor Rector will take you across this land with an unforgettable cast of interesting characters, and tell you about a host of inventions which many of you have never heard of, and the stories of the people behind them.
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S1E14 The invention of wireless phones, Reginald Fessenden and the BlackBerry!!
Did you know wireless phones were a Canadian invention?? Envisioned by a young Canadian boy of 9 yrs old?? in the 1870's!!!That's right, I'm going to take you back in time to a prophetic carriage…
S1E13 AVRO ARROW PT2: The NASA Legacy
In this episode, we go over some of the Avro Arrow employees' post-cancellation legacy and touch on some of the many contributions by Canadians to NASA and the space…
S1E12 Avro Arrow PT1: Did one get away???
The mighty, amazing Avro Arrow!!!!The enduring story that won't die!!Think you've heard it all???Well, wait till you hear the story of the possibility that one that got away!!!!?!?!!?Well, you've…
Sample: Invention of Hockey
Sample clips from the Invention of Hockey!To hear the whole episode, search for Professor Mark Rector's podcast "OH CANADA! Our Home and INVENTIVE Land!" on all your favourite podcast apps or…
S1 Ed Rogers and the invention of the AC Vacuum Tube (ad)
Ed Rogers and the invention of the AC Vacuum Tube
S1E10 Dr John Hopps and the Pacemaker
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...…
S1E11 Sir F. Banting: insulin and the Zero-G Suit
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…
S1E8 Camp X!! Top Secret Spy Training School
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…
S1E7 Dr Elizabeth "Elsie" McGill - The first female Aeronautical Engineer
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…
S1E6 The Lightbulb a Canadian Invention!!
PT 2 of our Victorian Era InventionsIf 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…
S1E5 NS INVENTORS of Gasoline + the Trans-Atlantic cable!
This episode is Part 1 of a 2 part Victorian Era Retrospective looking at two fellow East Coasters Frederic Gisborne and Abraham Pineo Gesner.In part one the massive multi-year effort for Gisborne to…
S1E4 The First Female Doctors in Canada Emily Stowe and Jennie Trout
This is the story of Canada's first two female Doctors, Emily Howard Stowe and Jennie Kidd Trout.
S1E3 Edward Rogers and the invention of the A.C. vacuum tube!
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…
S1E2 The Invention of the Game of Hockey (and the goalie mask and jockstrap).
This episode will take you back and explore the invention of hockey in Canada. Some call it Ice Hockey some call it Hurley on ice, we call it shinny, or just the Good 'ol Hockey Game!You'll also…
S1 NEW PODCAST INTRO
The introduction to the OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND! Podcast.
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OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND! has published 13 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in History, Technology.
OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND! is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 19m.
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