Talk:The Greatest Canadian Invention

How do you invent insulin?
Does this mean Synthesized Insulin, or what? Windthorst 21:57, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Numbering Wrong
THE NUMBERED INVENTIONS LISTED THERE ARE NOT IN ORDER, THATS FROM THE TORONTO STAR TV GUIDE RIGHT ? THEY DONT MATCH UP AGAINST THE SHOWS NUMERS. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.48.39.164 (talk) 02:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
 * No, the numbering (after I changed it) is from the show. The way they did the last three confused me for a bit, but ortherwise it's right. I'm preaty sure I didn't make any mistakes. JQF • Talk • Contribs 03:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Question: if there are 50 inventions, why are we up to 62, with some repeated (e.g.Wonderbra).Mattnad 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. I went back to the CBC site and corrected the entries in this article to match the order and number. Now back to 50.Mattnad 13:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

"Canadian"?
What makes the inventions listed specifically Canadian? To give an example: Alexander Graham Bell Was born in Scotland, lived in Canada for a year and then moved to the US. Not quite sure where to lay the claim here, and I haven't even looked into other people also credited with this particular invention - cfr. the light bulb and Thomas Alva Edison. I suppose television makers have greater issues than accuracy, but this being Wikipedia I reckon it's interesting to know how the creators would link this fairly specific list to Canada. -- MiG 07:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * All that matters for this show is that Canadians thought these were their inventions and voted accordingly. This was entertainment, and not necessarily the paragon of historic accuracy. Mattnad 18:03, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Bell held both Canadian and American citzenship, he and his family renounced their scottish citizenship for some reason, and he actually lived in Canada for many years in a family home outside Burlington Ontario, he went to the US for about five or six years, and returned to Canada before his death unimaginable

Wow. Just to think that the wonder bra and 5 pin bowling beat the pacemaker. Kinda sad. FireHazard17 (talk) 03:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

The vast majority of inclusions on this list could not remotely be called "Canadian". Most had clear prior art (light bulb, pacemaker), were impractical versions of devices others perfected (same examples), were people born in Canada living and working elsewhere (Java, basketball) or people "just moving through" Canada (telephone). This is hardly uncommon (I've seen the claim that the Avro Arrow is a UK invention) but sad that the CBC promoted this. Note that the web page has since disappeared. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I found a page archiving the list, here. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:42, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

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