Further Research

The following is a list of resources that were consulted during the writing of Made in Canada:

Black, Harry. Canadian Scientists and Inventors: Biographies of People Who Made a Difference. Markham: Pembroke Publishers Ltd., 1997.

Bohnert, Beth. Canadian Women: Risktakers and Changemakers. Etobicoke: Women Inventors Project, 1993.

Brown, J.J. Ideas in Exile: A History of Canadian Invention. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1967.

Brown. J.J. The Inventors: Great Ideas in Canadian Enterprise. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1967.

Canada. Patent Office. List of Canadian patents, from the beginning of the Patent Office, June, 1824, to the 31st of August, 1872. Ottawa: Gordon Publications and Reproductions, 1979.

Carpenter, Thomas. Inventors: Profiles in Canadian Genius. Camden East: Camden House, 1990.

Charles Legge and Company. Patentees' manual showing how to invent and the manner of securing the invention by letters patent in Canada and foreign countries: containing also the patent, trade mark, design and copy-right laws of the Dominion of Canada with synopsis of patent laws of all countries and cost of patents in each. Montréal: J. Lovell, 1870.

Douglas, Althea, and J. Creighton Doulas. Canadian Railway Records. Toronto: The Ontario Genealogical Society, 2004.

Fiset, Richard, and François Pelletier. Electricity: Record of Canadian Patents, 1824-1891. Québec: Nessy, 1993.

Hegedus, Alannah. Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2001.

Hughes, Susan. Canada Invents. Toronto: Owl Books, 2002.

Mayer, Roy. Inventing Canada: 100 Years of Innovation. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1997.

Nader, Ralph, Nadia Milleron, and Duff Conacher. Canada Firsts. Washington, D.C.: Center for Study of Responsive Law, 1992.

Nostbakken, Janis, and Jack Humphrey. The Canadian Inventions Book: Innovations, Discoveries and Firsts. Toronto: Geey de Pencier Publications, 1976.

Ridout, John G. Treatise on the patent law of the Dominion of Canada: including the revised Patent act, as amended to date with annotations, the Patent office rules and forms, general forms, and forms relating to practice in the Exchequer court of Canada. Toronto: Rowsell & Hutchison, 1894.

Roos, Arnold E. A Bibliography of the History of Canadian Science and Technology. Ottawa: Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, 1995.

Sandwell, G. T., North York Board of Education. Thirty two Canadians. Willowdale: North York Board of Education, 1984.

Spencer, Beverley. Made in Canada: 101 Amazing Achievements. Toronto: Scholastic Canada, 2003.

Trottier, Maxine. Inventeurs de chez nous. Markham: Éditions Scholastic, 2004.

Wojna, Lisa. Canadian Inventions: Fantastic Feats & Quirky Contraptions. Edmonton: Folklore Publishing, 2005.

Wood, Angela. Canadian Women Invent! Toronto: Inventive Women Inc., 2002.

Related Sites

For more information on Canadian patents, please consult the websites listed below.

"The Greatest Canadian Invention." For Teachers. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
www.cbc.ca/inventions/teachers.html (accessed September 27, 2006).

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/welcome/welcom-e.html

Industry Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/

Patent Act
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-4/index.html

Canadian Innovation Centre
www.innovationcentre.ca/

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
www.ipic.ca/

Trade-marks Act
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/T-13/index.html

Industrial Design Act
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/I-9/index.html

Integrated Circuit Topography Act
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/I-14.6/index.html


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