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Insulin Refined for Treating Diabetes
Dr. Frederick Banting and his student, Charles Best discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes. Diabetes is a disease where your body cannot control the amount of sugar in your blood and may cause blindness, the need to amputate limbs, and even death at a young age. They used dogs to test their new treatment before trying it on a boy from Toronto. Their insulin treatment worked immediately on the boy. Banting was given the Nobel Prize. Banting shared the award with Charles Best. -
Snowmobile invented
Joseph-Armand Bombardier grew up in the snowy weather of eastern Quebec. When he was 15 he tested his first full size model of a machine to drive OVER the snow. It was made with a wooden sleigh and the engine of a Ford Model T car. Today, the French word for snowmobile is "Bombardier" in honour of its inventor. The company he started, Bombardier, still makes snowmobiles and jet skis as well as airplanes and trains. -
Snowblower Invented
The snow blower was invented by Arthur Sicard. He got the idea from watching a farmer clear wheat in a field and thought this could help clear roads to make deliveries easier in the winter. His snow blower could send snow up to 75 feet away and changed life in cities like Montreal in the winter.