Innovations | Creative Capital of Canada

Economic downturns are often thought to prevent innovation and risk taking. However, economic hard times can be a catalyst for innovation.

The phenomenon, Synaesthesia - Its name derives from the Greek, meaning "to perceive together"

When city-wide recycling in Kitchener was launch in 1983, the blue box was its cornerstone.

In the 1970s, Robert Mundell chair of economics at the University of Waterloo at the time, laid the groundwork for the introduction of the Euro.

True North Power is an energy company based in Ayr that manufactures an innovative windmill – the Wind Arrow Turbine.

George Rumpel founded the felt manufacturing industry in Canada.

In 1967, Electrohome unveiled the Circa 75; their most ambitious and futuristic concept.

His valued contributions to education included membership on the Royal Commission on Industrial and Technical Training.

Marsland Engineering became a major supplier to such companies as Northern Electric and IBM

A stove patented by Jacob Beck