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Dangerous Donations

July 9, 2015 /1 Comment/in Collecting and Connecting /by Erin Secord

One of my more favourite things we bring into the collection are chemical sets. This one is an 1890’s Robert Best Ede home chemistry set.

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Harvesting History: My Visit to Sainte-Anne-des-PlainesAugust 26, 2015 - 2:00 pm
This first experience at collection development has been truly memorable. I met great people who are passionate about their agricultural heritage, including a group of volunteers restoring a historic barn in downtown Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines.
Hope and Fear in a Glass Capillary – Connecting over the History of Vaccination with the Osler LibraryJanuary 31, 2017 - 9:56 am
This unassuming glass capillary of fluid represents much more than meets the eye.
Access, the Body, and the Great OutdoorsOctober 17, 2016 - 7:00 am
Brad Zdanivsky is a climber living in Vancouver. In 1995, he was involved in a car accident which left him quadriplegic. In this interview, he shares his 10-year journey of regaining access to the great outdoors, and climbing the 1700-foot vertical wall of the Squamish Chief,
Surgical Gloves and the Battle of Protection vs. SensitivitySeptember 16, 2016 - 12:31 pm
In medicine and science today we take the use of gloves for granted. But their usefulness in surgery was not as obvious when they were first introduced in the late 1800s. In 1889 the Johns Hopkins surgeon, William Halsted, first introduced rubber gloves in surgery as a gift to his chief operating nurse and future […]
A Compass in the Migrant CrisisApril 14, 2016 - 1:49 pm
In June 2015, as the migrant crisis intensified on the Mediterranean, I asked a friend Carol Devine, who has a long history of working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), if it would be possible to collect objects that document the medical dimension of this experience. She immediately mobilized to have a message sent to MSF staff on the […]
The story that changed my mindJanuary 18, 2016 - 10:14 am
Collecting is about connecting across time and space. We use our knowledge and our networks to seek out objects that embody important stories in the history of science and technology in Canada. But sometimes, when we don’t even know we should be looking for it, an object finds us and forces us to look beyond our established collecting priorities to discover a genuine treasure.
“The Lady Who Drives the Great Big Truck”!December 10, 2015 - 12:00 pm
Throughout my travels across Canada – purposed to interview veterans of the mining, metallurgy and petroleum sectors, one of the questions I asked was: How present (or absent) were women in the workplace?

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