Top left image: Nellie McClung. Library and Archives Canada, e000000583,
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nellie-letitia-mcclung
Top right image: Leo Mol Sculpture Garden (photo: Khristine Guerrero)
The cell phone was invented by former Winnipegger
Martin Cooper, who spent a decade of his childhood in
the North End.
Ukrainian sculptor Leo Mol — who resided in Winnipeg —
is internationally acclaimed, and you can find his works in
numerous countries, including the museums of the Vatican.
Here in the city, The Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Assiniboine
Park is one of the few sculpture gardens in the world featuring
the work of a single artist.
The world's most famous spy, James Bond, was inspired
by born and bred Winnipegger, Sir William Stephenson.
After becoming a flying ace during WWI, then inventing the
technology/process that made the fax machine possible in the
1920s, Stephenson was made the chief of British intelligence
in the U.S. during WWII by Winston Churchill. Operating under
the code name Intrepid, Stephenson's exploits as a spymaster
would help foster the creation of the CIA. Throughout the
war he operated a high tech lab that would inspire people
like Ian Fleming, who trained under Stephenson. After the
war, Stephenson and Fleming would become friends and
neighbours in Jamaica, where Fleming's James Bond series
took shape.
