A brochure outlining the history of IEEE Canada (below left), with focus on the history of past 25 years, was developed for release at Sections Congress 2008, held in Quebec City, PQ, Canada. The PDF of this brochure can be found here.
Another detailed article outlining the history of IEEE Canada was published in the Fall 2009 issue of the IEEE Canadian Review. This article can be found here.
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Driven by the need to understand the characteristics of radio communication in Canada's North, Canadian researchers focused on the exploration of the earth's upper atmosphere, the ionosphere. Canada's satellite program commenced with the launch of Alouette-I on September 29, 1962. Alouette-II followed in 1965, ISIS-I in 1969, ISIS-II in 1971. The Alouette/ISIS tracking antenna serves as a reminder of Canada's contribution to this international effort in space science.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program, 1962","link":"","lat":45.344931,"lon":-75.882893,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Decew_Falls_Hydro-Electric_Plant,_1898#_be87f58606f4a09b5f48b5f02ddefab8\" title=\"Milestones:Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant, 1898\"\u003EMilestones:Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant, 1898\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeCew Falls, Ontario, Canada. Dedication: 2 May 2004, IEEE Hamilton Section. The Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Development was a pioneering project in the generation and transmission of electrical energy at higher voltages and at greater distances in Canada. On 25 August 1898 this station transmitted power at 22,500 Volts, 66 2/3 Hz, two-phase, a distance of 56 km to Hamilton, Ontario. Using the higher voltage permitted efficient transmission over that distance.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant, 1898","link":"","lat":43.116335,"lon":-79.248669,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Eel_River_High_Voltage_Direct_Current_Converter_Station,_1972#_c955e176c4152eb87e38c714ca2306d8\" title=\"Milestones:Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972\"\u003EMilestones:Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDalhousie Power Station, Eel River, New Brunswick, Canada. Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972. Operating since 1972, Eel River, New Brunswick is home to the world's first commercial solid state High Voltage Direct Current converter station. This 320 MW interconnection facility, built by Canadian General Electric and NB Power, incorporates high current silicon solid state thyristors to convert alternating current from Hydro Quebec to direct current and back to alternating, allowing asynchronous, stable power transfers to serve NB Power's customers.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972","link":"","lat":48.010504,"lon":-66.374,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_500_MeV_Proton_Beam_from_the_TRIUMF_Cyclotron,_1974#_e16ca3ebd9a7cc072339d1e3c4b3038b\" title=\"Milestones:First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron, 1974\"\u003EMilestones:First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron, 1974\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETRIUMF Meson Facility, 4004 Wesbrook Mall. Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada. At 3:30 pm on 15 December 1974, the first 500 MeV proton beam was extracted from the TRIUMF cyclotron. Since then, TRIUMF has used proton beams from its cyclotron (and secondary beams of pions, muons, neutrons and radioactive ions produced in its experimental halls) to conduct pioneering studies that have advanced nuclear physics, particle physics, molecular and materials science, and nuclear medicine. The plaque will be installed on a wall outside the cyclotron main control room near the site dedication plaque. (The first successful beam extraction was manually controlled from the main console in that room.)\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron, 1974","link":"","lat":49.247806,"lon":-123.229566,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_735_kV_AC_Transmission_System,_1965#_0f569451a4557ba0e21d04ed60b838c8\" title=\"Milestones:First 735 kV AC Transmission System, 1965\"\u003EMilestones:First 735 kV AC Transmission System, 1965\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuebec, Canada, Dedication: November 2005. Hydro-Quebec's 735,000 volt electric power transmission system was the first in the world to be designed, built and operated at an alternating-current voltage above 700 kV. This development extended the limits of long-distance transmission of electrical energy. On 29 November 1965 the first 735 kV line was inaugurated. Power was transmitted from the Manicouagan-Outardes hydro-electric generating complex to Montreal, a distance of 600 km.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First 735 kV AC Transmission System, 1965","link":"","lat":45.508095,"lon":-73.562355,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Demonstration_of_a_Fibre_Bragg_Grating,_1978#_c15953624a64366121a151feab5209b1\" title=\"Milestones:First Demonstration of a Fibre Bragg Grating, 1978\"\u003EMilestones:First Demonstration of a Fibre Bragg Grating, 1978\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1978, researchers at the Communications Research Centre Canada were the first to observe photo-induced change of refractive index in glass optical fibres and demonstrate writing permanent refractive index gratings that act as very selective optical filters. Fibre Bragg Gratings of this type are easily integrated into fibre optic systems and have revolutionized the design of optical communications and sensor systems.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Demonstration of a Fibre Bragg Grating, 1978","link":"","lat":45.345196,"lon":-75.880435,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Digitally_Processed_Image_from_a_Spaceborne_Synthetic_Aperture_Radar,_1978#_63322c7f1f622b3cf7a52ebb27d5a255\" title=\"Milestones:First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1978\"\u003EMilestones:First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1978\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn November 1978, a team from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) became the first to use a digital processor to reconstruct an image from Seasat-A, the first civilian spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). MDA engineers subsequently developed three of the four most important SAR digital processing algorithms that replaced the optical processing methods used previously.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1978","link":"","lat":49.1753696,"lon":-123.0704193,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Distant_Speech_Transmission_in_Canada,_1876#_d13f9047b632b676c02a2a06992027be\" title=\"Milestones:First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada, 1876\"\u003EMilestones:First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada, 1876\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E91, Grand River St. N, Paris, Ontario, Canada. The location is now \"The River Lilly\" store. Dedication: 4 May 2008. On 10 August 1876, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated on this site that the human voice could be transmitted electrically over distance. While family members spoke into a transmitter in Brantford, 13 km away, Bell was able to hear them at a receiver located here. This test convinced Bell that the invention could be used for communication between towns and could compete successfully with the telegraph.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada, 1876","link":"","lat":43.193841,"lon":-80.384127,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_External_Cardiac_Pacemaker,_1950#_9b50cb328d528ae8f1e04edb2fd0da8e\" title=\"Milestones:First External Cardiac Pacemaker, 1950\"\u003EMilestones:First External Cardiac Pacemaker, 1950\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E112 College Street, Toronto, beside the front entrance of the C. H. Best Institute. In 1950, in Room 64 of the Bantling Institute of the University of Toronto, Drs. Wilfred Bigelow and John Callaghan successfully paced the heart of a dog using an external electronic pacemaker-defibrillator having implanted electrodes. The device was developed by Dr. John Hopps at the National Research Council of Canada. This pioneering work led to the use of cardiac pacemakers in humans and helped establish the importance of electronic devices in medicine.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First External Cardiac Pacemaker, 1950","link":"","lat":43.6604,"lon":-79.389428,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Geographic_Information_System_(GIS),_1962-1968#_5b52d673cc52881202737502fa4f9957\" title=\"Milestones:First Geographic Information System (GIS), 1962-1968\"\u003EMilestones:First Geographic Information System (GIS), 1962-1968\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed by Roger Tomlinson at the Canadian Department of Forestry and Rural Development in Ottawa. GIS used computer technology to collect, digitize, store, analyze, and visualize Canada Land Inventory information. It subsequently revolutionized science, decision-making, and everyday life worldwide by allowing overlay, measurement, and spatial analysis of geographic data to include information about agriculture, wildlife, forestry, recreation, and transportation.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Geographic Information System (GIS), 1962-1968","link":"","lat":45.442222,"lon":-75.695278,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Radio_Astronomical_Observations_Using_Very_Long_Baseline_Interferometry,_1967#_c7abe781dc792ffb38210dc73ef64a85\" title=\"Milestones:First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry, 1967\"\u003EMilestones:First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry, 1967\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlgonquin Radio Observatory, Kaleden, B.C., Canada. On the morning of 17 April 1967, radio astronomers used this radiotelescope at DRAO and a second one at the Algonquin Radio Observatory located 3074 km away to make the first successful radio astronomical observations using Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Today, VLBI networks span the globe, extend into space and continue to make significant contributions to both radio astronomy and geodesy.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry, 1967","link":"","lat":49.320883,"lon":-119.620364,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Television_Broadcast_in_Western_Canada,_1953#_aa7e3ca3d31e78bd06f70e45aecc0106\" title=\"Milestones:First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953\"\u003EMilestones:First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECBC Broadcasting Site, Vancouver, Canada. On 16 December 1953, the first television broadcast in Western Canada was transmitted from this site by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBUT Channel 2. The engineering experience gained here was instrumental in the subsequent establishment of the more than one thousand public and private television broadcasting sites that serve Western Canada today.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953","link":"","lat":49.363611,"lon":-122.956667,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Television_Broadcast_in_Western_Canada,_1953#CBC_Broadcasting_Site,_Vancouver,_Canada\" title=\"Milestones:First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953\"\u003EMilestones:First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECBC Broadcasting Site, Vancouver, Canada\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECBC Broadcasting Site, Vancouver, Canada. On 16 December 1953, the first television broadcast in Western Canada was transmitted from this site by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBUT Channel 2. The engineering experience gained here was instrumental in the subsequent establishment of the more than one thousand public and private television broadcasting sites that serve Western Canada today.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Television Broadcast in Western Canada, 1953","link":"","lat":49.353611,"lon":-122.956667,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Human_Rescue_Enabled_by_Space_Technology,_1982#_eaa5cd91eac3ecc9a39a53b4a76a91f3\" title=\"Milestones:Human Rescue Enabled by Space Technology, 1982\"\u003EMilestones:Human Rescue Enabled by Space Technology, 1982\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 9 September 1982 an aircraft crashed in the mountains of British Columbia. A Canadian ground station in Ottawa located the aircraft using the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. Search and rescue teams were dispatched and all on board were rescued. Since the first incident, many tens of thousands of lives have been saved around the world using this technology.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Human Rescue Enabled by Space Technology, 1982","link":"","lat":45.458542,"lon":-75.6462657,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Landing_of_the_Transatlantic_Cable,_1866#_40ac62626b38e60f595552e4dbf9a0dd\" title=\"Milestones:Landing of the Transatlantic Cable, 1866\"\u003EMilestones:Landing of the Transatlantic Cable, 1866\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECable Museum, Heart's Content, Newfoundland, Canada. Dedication: June 1985 - IEEE Newfoundland-Labrador Section. A permanent electrical communications link between the old world and the new was initiated at this site with the landing of a transatlantic cable on July 27, 1866. This achievement altered for all time personal, commercial, and political relations between peoples on the two sides of the ocean. Five more cables between Heart's Content and Valentia, Ireland were completed between 1866 and 1894. This station continued in operation until 1965.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Landing of the Transatlantic Cable, 1866","link":"","lat":47.870647,"lon":-53.364887,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Nelson_River_HVDC_Transmission_System,_1972#_84634f9e3b4b9c3a9034afa8af372184\" title=\"Milestones:Nelson River HVDC Transmission System, 1972\"\u003EMilestones:Nelson River HVDC Transmission System, 1972\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Dedication: 3 June 2005, IEEE Winnipeg Section. On 17 June 1972, the Nelson River High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission system began delivery of electric power. It used the highest operating voltage to deliver the largest amount of power from a remote site to a city. The bipolar scheme gave superior line reliability and the innovative use of the controls added significantly to the overall system capabilities. Finally, the scheme used the largest mercury arc valves ever developed for such an application.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Nelson River HVDC Transmission System, 1972","link":"","lat":54.218428,"lon":-97.613096,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Pinawa_Hydroelectric_Power_Project,_1906#_cd122078b360d23745e2136929eae09c\" title=\"Milestones:Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906\"\u003EMilestones:Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EManitoba Electrical Museum and Education Centre, 680 Harrow St, Winnipeg, MB R3M. On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906","link":"","lat":49.855809,"lon":-97.154215,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Reception_of_Transatlantic_Radio_Signals,_1901#_2e567d124995e13e6bd849feabcf28d8\" title=\"Milestones:Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals, 1901\"\u003EMilestones:Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals, 1901\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESignal Hill, Newfoundland. Dedication: October 1985 - IEEE Newfoundland-Labrador Section. At Signal Hill on December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, confirmed the reception of the first transatlantic radio signals. With a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite, they heard Morse code for the letter \"S\" transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall. Their experiments showed that radio signals extended far beyond the horizon, giving radio a new global dimension for communication in the twentieth century.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals, 1901","link":"","lat":47.571849,"lon":-52.689165,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:The_First_Submarine_Transatlantic_Telephone_Cable_System_(TAT-1),_1956#_0cfe1eeddaf571e1702192ee1d00a8e0\" title=\"Milestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\"\u003EMilestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarenville, Newfoundland, Canada. Dedication: 24 September 2006. Global telephone communications using submarine cables began on 25 September 1956, when the first transatlantic undersea telephone system, TAT-1, went into service. This site is the eastern terminal of the transatlantic cable that stretched west to Clarenville, Newfoundland. TAT-1 was a great technological achievement providing unparalleled reliability with fragile components in hostile environments. It was made possible through the efforts of engineers at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories and British Post Office. The system operated until 1978.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956","link":"","lat":46.2317,"lon":-60.222119,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:The_First_Submarine_Transatlantic_Telephone_Cable_System_(TAT-1),_1956#_3c8cf6cd77bc78006b3a95c69eec2dad\" title=\"Milestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\"\u003EMilestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarenville, Newfoundland, Canada. Dedication: 24 September 2006. Global telephone communications using submarine cables began on 25 September 1956, when the first transatlantic undersea telephone system, TAT-1, went into service. This site is the eastern terminal of the transatlantic cable that stretched west to Clarenville, Newfoundland. TAT-1 was a great technological achievement providing unparalleled reliability with fragile components in hostile environments. It was made possible through the efforts of engineers at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories and British Post Office. The system operated until 1978.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956","link":"","lat":56.380286,"lon":-5.523505,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:The_First_Submarine_Transatlantic_Telephone_Cable_System_(TAT-1),_1956#_491443bf2b9f060c6769b35b83b397d2\" title=\"Milestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\"\u003EMilestones:The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClarenville, Newfoundland, Canada. Dedication: 24 September 2006. Global telephone communications using submarine cables began on 25 September 1956, when the first transatlantic undersea telephone system, TAT-1, went into service. This site is the eastern terminal of the transatlantic cable that stretched west to Clarenville, Newfoundland. TAT-1 was a great technological achievement providing unparalleled reliability with fragile components in hostile environments. It was made possible through the efforts of engineers at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories and British Post Office. The system operated until 1978.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1), 1956","link":"","lat":48.14626,"lon":-53.9641,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:The_Trans-Canada_Microwave_System,_1958#_f7c496ff83e5d3bc5c7839679d9ab831\" title=\"Milestones:The Trans-Canada Microwave System, 1958\"\u003EMilestones:The Trans-Canada Microwave System, 1958\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 1 July 1958, the Trans-Canada Microwave System introduced live network television and direct-dialled long distance telephone service to Canadians from coast to coast. Comprising 139 towers spanning more than 6275 kilometres, it was, when completed, the world's longest such network. Later extended and upgraded, the system had an immense impact on Canada's society and economy.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"The Trans-Canada Microwave System, 1958","link":"","lat":49.281111,"lon":-123.116389,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"}],"imageLayers":[]}
