Which Canadian invented the snowmobile?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- James Naismith
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier
- Sir Sandford Fleming
Answer: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile, a light vehicle for travel over snow in winter. He is on the guide’s list of great Canadian inventors, with Sir Sandford Fleming (time zones) and Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone).
Learn more: Science, discoveries and inventions
- Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis were pioneer thinkers.
- Since 1989 the Canadian Space Agency and Canadian astronauts have taken part in space exploration, often using the Canadarm.
- Nobel Prize-winning scientists include Gerhard Herzberg (a refugee from Nazi Germany), John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard E. Taylor, Michael Smith and Bertram Brockhouse.
- Alexander Graham Bell came up with the idea of the telephone at his summer house in Canada.
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile. Sir Sandford Fleming invented the worldwide system of standard time zones.
- Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward invented the first electric light bulb and sold the patent to Thomas Edison.
- Reginald Fessenden helped invent radio and sent the world’s first wireless voice message.
- Dr. Wilder Penfield was a pioneering brain surgeon at McGill University, called “the greatest living Canadian.”
- Dr. John A. Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker.
- SPAR Aerospace and the National Research Council invented the Canadarm, a robotic arm used in outer space.
- Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion (RIM), a wireless communications company, are known for its most famous invention, the BlackBerry.
- Sir Frederick Banting of Toronto and Charles Best discovered insulin, which treats diabetes and has saved 16 million lives worldwide.