{"id":11802,"date":"2021-06-29T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11802"},"modified":"2021-06-30T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:27:10","slug":"top-10-list-of-canadian-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11802","title":{"rendered":"Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, <em>By George<\/em> is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions.<\/p>\n<p>For this list By George consulted the following: CBC\u2019s Greatest Canadian Invention, CBC survey, Yahoo and Thought Company. Ultimately, however the <em>By George<\/em> braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Honourable Mentions:<\/p>\n<p>Canoe, jetliner, the pager, garbage bag, peanut butter, road lines, Archie (the first internet search engine), basketball, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, instant mashed potatoes, snowblower, snowmobile, Robertson Screw, paint roller, wireless radio, and the Wonderbra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The <em>By George<\/em> Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10. IMAX<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">9. Jet Liner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">8. Game of Hockey<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">7. The Canadarm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">6. Electric Wheelchair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">5. Zipper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">4. Artificial Pacemaker<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3. Light Bulb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2. Insulin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1. Telephone<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/phone_8ed26f00ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/phone_8ed26f00ec.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/phone_8ed26f00ec-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions. For this list By George consulted the following: CBC\u2019s Greatest Canadian Invention, CBC survey, Yahoo and Thought Company. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are Honourable Mentions: Canoe, jetliner, the pager,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,35,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11807,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}