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The First Automobile
The first automobile was created Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. He built the first self propelled road vehicle (military tractor) for the French army: three wheeled, 2.5 mph. -
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The first Telephone
The first Telephone was spoken through in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the phone. He called his assistant and said "Mr.Watson--come here--i wan to see you." -
Women Can Vote!
Provincially, women were given the vote in 1916 in the four western provinces, in 1917 in Ontario, in 1918 in Nova Scotia, in 1919 in New Brunswick, in 1922 in Prince Edward Island, and in 1940 in Quebec. But in 1919 all women over 21 had the right to vote! -
Income Tax
Personal income tax, introduced under the Income War Tax Act of 1917, was conceived -- like the other wartime taxes -- as a temporary measure. This act both expanded the scope of the Business Profits War Tax and introduced a tax based on yearly income to most Canadians. It wasn't temporary. -
Unemploment Insurance
Unemployment Insurance or was introduced in Canada in 1940. Over the course of nearly 60 years, the system has undergone numerous changes, the most significant being the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971, which widely liberalized the system. -
Free Medical Care
July 1, 1968 was the day the Act provided that the federal government would pay about half of Medicare costs in any province with insurance plans that met the criteria of being universal, publicly administered, portable and comprehensive. -
Women can go to University
Women were first admitted in college in the 1970 but were not at equal numbers as men till 1980. -
First Laptop
The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds. It had no battery, a 5 in CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in single-density floppy drives. In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced -
The Interenet
On 6 August 1991, the World Wide Web went live to the world. There was no fanfare in the global press. In fact, most people around the world didn't even know what the Internet was. -
The first search engine
The first few hundred web sites began in 1993 and most of them were at colleges, but long before most of them existed came Archie. The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.