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President of the National Research Council.
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président du Conseil National des Recherches.
Canada’s National Research
Council
Canadians know that the realization of the great potential wealth of their
country’s natural resources depends on the development of new scientific
techniques. The Canadian government is therefore giving active support to
scientific research through the National Research Council, a government
agency. The Council carries out research projects in both pure and applied
science in its own laboratories, and gives financial help to universities and
students. Further, through its close liaison with Canadian industry and with
federal and provincial government departments, it has become the centre of
the whole pattern of scientific and technical research in Canada.
Of incalculable importance to Canada’s economy has been the discovery
of a practical method of extracting oil from the huge tar-sands deposit in
Northern Alberta, a project in which the Council cooperated closely with the
Alberta government. After many years of work, a pilot plant is operating and
the development of the world’s largest oil field is now only a matter of time.
In many other ways, too, the Council helps to develop Canada’s vast northern
areas: it has improved methods of mapping from the air, and has made it
possible to prospect from the air for radio-active ores.
But these represent only a small phase of the Council’s activities, for it is
involved, with other research agencies, in hundreds of projects which affect
nearly every aspect of Canadian life. Millions of bushels of wheat may be
saved through investigations into the use of bacterial antibiotics to combat
plant diseases, carried out by the Council and the Department of Agriculture.
“xperiments with vegetable oils may provide important new uses for Canadian
farm products. Canadians may have better and cheaper houses as the
results of experiments with new construction methods. New radar navigation
COVER: Fifteen-foot propeller blades generate COUVERTURE: Une hélice, dont les pales
artificial hurricanes in a National Research ont 15 pieds de longueur, produit des ouragans
Council horizontal wind-tunnel, where new artificiels dans un tunnel supersonique du
aircraft designs are tested. Conseil National des Recherches où l’on met à
l’épreuve l’équipement d’aviation.
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