Canada Agriculture and Food Museum New Exhibition: Cultivating Canadian Ingenuity

“Innovating” means applying a new idea, practice, or technology to something that already exists to improve it. In agriculture, such advances can impact food, fibre, medicine, energy sources, and other products that are familiar to all of us. Canadian farmers, manufacturers, and scientists innovate every day.

These Canadian stories share just a few examples of how the science behind agriculture has led to innovations that improve our everyday lives.

Exhibition highlights:

-Meet Joseph Coyle, the hotelkeeper and delivery man whose ingenious egg carrier became the forerunner of the modern egg carton.
-Explore the story of the Cobalt Teletherapy Unit, a groundbreaking Canadian cancer treatment technology that later found a surprising second life in food irradiation, helping keep many foods safe to eat.
-Learn how Canadian farmers and researchers are leading the way in agrivoltaics, a system that allows farmers to grow crops or graze livestock below solar panels.