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Canada's greatest gifts to the world:
Insulin (as a diabetes treatment) - invented by Frederick Banting, Charles Best and James Collip in 1922
Superman - Created by Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster and American writer Jerry Siegel in 1932
Basketball - invented by James Naismith in 1891
Standard time - introduced by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1878
Canola - created in the early 1970s by Keith Downey and Baldur R. Stefansson
AM Radio - invented by Reginald Fessenden in 1906
The snowmobile - invented by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in 1937
Poutine
Nanaimo bars
Smarties
Crispy Crunch
Coffee Crisp
Walkie-Talkies - invented by Donald L. Hings and Alfred J. Gross in 1942
The prosthetic hand - invented by Helmut Lucas in 1971
The snowblower - invented by Arthur Sicard in 1925
The foghorn - invented by Robert Foulis in 1854
SONAR - invented by Reginald Fessenden
The goalie mask - invented by Jacques Plante in 1959
IMAX - co-invented by Roman Kroitor in 1968
Instant replay - invented for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada in 1955
Trivial Pursuit - invented by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in 1979
Lacrosse - codified by William George Beers around 1860
Ice hockey - invented in Windsor, Nova Scotia
The electron microscope - invented by James Hillier and Arthur Prebus in 1939
Pablum - invented by Frederick Tisdall, Theodore Drake and Allan Brown in 1930
Easy-Off oven cleaner - invented by Herbert McCool in 1932
The cardiac pacemaker - invented by John Hopps
The Wonderbra - invented by Louise Poirier
The alkaline battery - invented by Lewis Urry in 1954
The caulking gun - invented by Theodore Witte in 1894
The Jolly Jumper - invented by Olivia Poole in 1959
The garbage bag - invented by Harry Wasylyk in 1950
The paint roller - invented by Norman James Breakey
The Robertson screw - invented by P.L. Robertson
The bloody Caesar - invented in Calgary in 1969
Plexiglass - invented by William Chalmers at McGill University in 1931
The explosives vapour detector - invented by Lorne Elias in 1985
Five-pin bowling - invented by Thomas F. Ryan in 1909
Computerized Braille - invented by Roland Galarneau in 1972
The 56k modem - invented by Dr. Brent Townshend in 1996
The pager - invented by Alfred J. Gross in 1949
The McIntosh red apple - Developed by John McIntosh
Peanut butter - first patented by Marcellus Gilmore Edson in 1884
Key frame animation - invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marcelli Wein in the 1970s
The Java programming language - invented by James Gosling
The telephone (invented by Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario)
The BlackBerry - Invented by Mike Lazaridis
The Canadarm (used on the Space Shuttle)
Singer Justin Bieber.
And, of course, celebrity astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield.
