{"product_id":"the-innovators-fraser-j-mackay-9798181199385","title":"The Innovators: Canadian Inventions That Changed the World But Forgot to Take Credit","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanada produced insulin, the telephone, the electron microscope, IMAX, the Canadarm, and the BlackBerry. It invented the snowblower, the paint roller, the garbage bag, and the electric wheelchair. Its scientists identified the gene for cystic fibrosis, demonstrated the existence of stem cells, and developed the lipid nanoparticle technology that made mRNA vaccines possible. And yet for every world-changing discovery made in Canada, the credit has too often drifted elsewhere - to American companies, American patents, American institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innovators\u003c\/i\u003e is the fifth and final volume of the \u003ci\u003eCanada's Hidden History\u003c\/i\u003e series. It examines twelve Canadian inventions and discoveries that changed the world, and asks the uncomfortable question: why has Canada been so reluctant to fully claim what its people have built?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Frederick Banting's insulin breakthrough in a borrowed University of Toronto laboratory to the rise and fall of BlackBerry in Waterloo, Ontario, Fraser J. Mackay traces a consistent pattern: discovery made in Canada, commercialized elsewhere, credit inadequately retained. With the same narrative drive and historical rigour that defined the first four volumes in the series, \u003ci\u003eThe Innovators\u003c\/i\u003e is both a celebration of Canadian ingenuity and an honest reckoning with the institutional failures that have surrounded it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCanada's Hidden History\u003c\/i\u003e series concludes here - not with defeat, but with an argument: Canada is more remarkable than its comfortable self-description allows, and building a country that fully deserves what its people produce is work worth doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fraser J. MacKay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181199385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Fraser J. MacKay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665710682367,"sku":"9798181199385","price":13.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-innovators-fraser-j-mackay-9798181199385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}