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Notable Canadian inventions, eh?

  1. Basketball - by James Naismith (1891)

  2. INSULIN - as diabetes treatment by Frederick Banting, Charles Best and James Collip (1922)

  3. Five-pin bowling - by Thomas F. Ryan (1909)

  4. Standard time - by Sandford Fleming (1878)

  5. AM Radio - by Reginald Fessenden (1906)

  6. Alkaline Battery - by Lewis Urry (1954)

  7. Snowmobile - by Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1937)

  8. Snowblower - by Arthur Sicard (1927)

  9. Electric car heater - by Thomas Ahearn (1890)

  10. Foghorn - by Robert Foulis (1854)

  11. Goalie Mask - by Jacques Plante (1959)

  12. Ice Hockey - invented in Windsor, Nova Scotia

  13. Caulking Gun - by Theodore Witte (1894)

  14. Jolly Jumper - by Olivia Poole (1959)

  15. Garbage bag - by Harry Wasylyk (1950)

  16. Paper - from pulped wood by Charles Fenerty

  17. Robertson screw - by P.L. Robertson (1908)

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