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Canadian Failures - Stories of Building Toward Success
Alex Benay
Publisher: Dundurn
Summary
Published by Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation (formerly called the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation) for Canada’s 150th Will be presented at the National Science Gala and at a national Speakers Series and book tour Examines Canadians’ reluctance to address failures, and how a nation is defined as much by its shortcomings as its successes Notable “failures” that shaped Canada’s identity and development include the light bulb (originally invented in Toronto!), the Avro Arrow, and Nortel Networks Chapters written by 10 highly successful Canadians such as Tobias Lütke, founder and CEO of Shopify; Dr. Robert Thirsk, Chancellor at the University of Calgary and Adjunct Faculty member at the International Space University; and Erica Wiebe, Canadian gold medalist in wrestling at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games Book will be sold at all Ingenium museums (projected 2017 attendance: 800,000), through their major social-media and app platforms, a national tour, the museums’ existing outreach and publicity channels, and the authors’ own channels of engagement
Available since: 10/21/2017.
