In case you missed week one's post where we explained the purpose of these weekly posts, we'll recap. Arcon is in it's 60th year of business. We'll officially celebrate our 60th anniversary in 2025. In a lead up to that and as an homage to the...(read more)

For many, it is the only way to close out a Saturday evening on the town in Halifax. Just the mention of it brings back wonderful memories of standing on a street corner eating your last meal of the night and often, the first of the next day!  Yes, I'm...(read more)

If you've taken a first aid course that included CPR training, you likely practiced compressions on a Cardio Pulmonary Mannequin.

In 1989, Dianne Croteau and partners, Richard Brault and Jonathan Vinden, invented "Actar 911", a mannequin designed to...(read more)

The next innovation, developed in 1967, continues to make the world a far safer place for children around the world.

Dr. Henri Breault, a pediatrician from Windsor developed the "Palm 'n Turn" safety cap for use on medicine bottles & containers in...(read more)

This week we celebrate a uniquely Canadian, winter-related innovation...Ringette!

Ringette was invented in North Bay in 1963 by Sam Jacks and is now played by over 30,000 Canadians from coast to coast to coast. While Canadian in origin, ringette is now played in...(read more)

Another week, another innovation credited to a Canadian! The Java programming language was developed by James Gosling in the early 1990's and its first public implementation was released in 1996 by Sun Microsystems. In 2004, he was elected a member of the National...(read more)