Made in Canada! Did you know these inventions are Canadian?

Canadians are known to be resourceful and inventive. When you see this list of items, you might be surprised just how many everyday things we take for granted were created by Canadians!

If you grew up in Canada in the 90s, you probably already know about this one! Remember the 'Canadian Heritage Minute' spots on public TV? They informed us Canadian kids all about the marvellous Canadian inventions, including basketball.

Canadian James Naismith invented basketball; however, he invented the game while working as a P.E instructor in Massachusetts in 1891.

Of course, the snowmobile was invented in Canada! When you live with so many months of snow, it isn't surprising! The invention of the snowmobile began with the patent of the Vehicle Propeller by Harold J. Kalenze in Manitoba in 1911.

In 1935 Joseph Bombardier developed something closer to what we know as snowmobiles today. Bombardier built the first successful snowmobile, with a sprocket wheel, drive track system steered by skis.

(Photo: By Melensdad at English Wikipedia)

If you've ever seen the "paint-roller" segment by Canada's favourite handyman Red-Green, then you know that it is a 100% Canadian invention. The world owes the invention of the ever-useful paint roller to Canadian Norman Breakey.

Breakey invented the paint roller in Toronto in 1940. However, he died before getting a chance to patent his invention.
American Richard Croxton Adams was the first to patent the paint roller design and profit from it.

Before the invention of the modern garbage bag, taking out the trash wasn't a pleasant task. Luckily for the world, in 1950, Larry Hansen invented the green polyethylene garbage bag.

Hansen's invention was bought by Union Carbide, who produced and sold the bags under the name 'Glad.' Well, we sure are "glad" this invention was created!

It is hard to imagine driving without road lines! There must have been so many traffic accidents! Luckily for us, in 1930, a Canadian transport engineer had an epiphany and came up with the idea.

John D. Millar worked for the Ontario department of transportation and invented the concept of road lines. Thanks to Millar the first road lines in the world were painted on a highway between Ontario and Quebec in 1930.

Many people across the globe depend on pacemakers to keep their hearts ticking. In 1949 John Hopps, a Canadian engineer, developed the first subcutaneous pacemaker.

John Hopps based his invention on observations made by Wilfred Bigelow and John Callaghan, cardiac surgeons in Toronto. Following further investigations and collaboration with other inventors, the first implantable pacemaker was put to use in 1958 on an 86 year old Swedish man.

In 1953 George Klein invented the first electric wheelchair. An invention that has enabled a higher degree of autonomy for many, which they otherwise would be denied if they only had access to a manual wheelchair.

(Photo: National Research Council of Canada)

George Klein, an Ontario-born inventor, was employed at the National Research Council, where he created many valuable inventions. We can thank Klein not only for the electric wheelchair but also for aircraft skis, the microsurgical staple gun, and the M29 Weasel army snowmobile, among many others.

Canadian inventor Donald Lewes Hings invented a portable radio signaling system in 1937. Created for his employer CM&S, Hings dubbed it a "packset," but it later became known as the walkie-talkie.

(Photo: By LuckyLouie (talk) 12:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC) - scan of antique manual)

Over the years, Hings developed various models of walkie-talkies, such as the C-58 Walkie-Talkie used by infantry during World War Two.

Three Canadian filmmakers are credited with the development of IMAX. Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroiter, and Robert Kerr were asked to produce large-screen films for the 1967 Expo. The trio realized they needed different equipment to fulfil this request.

(Photo: By NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Japan asked the trio to produce a film for Expo'70, so they created the Multiscreen Corporation. William Shaw was recruited to assist the group in inventing the cameras they needed to film in image maximum or what now call IMAX. The first-ever IMAX movie was screened at Expo'70, and it was titled 'Tiger Child.'