MADE IN WINNIPEG
If you've ever taken a bus in a North American city, you
probably rode in something made in Winnipeg thanks to
New Flyer Industries. The company also uses the city to test
its electric buses in winter and is creating autonomous vehicle
here too.
Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory houses
Canada's only biological safety level 4 containment laboratory,
used to test the deadliest human and animal diseases. In 2015,
scientists developed the Ebola virus vaccine here, while today
it plays a critical role in understanding COVID-19.
Winnipeg inventor Harry Wasylyk, along with Larry Hansen
of Lindsay, Ontario, created the green garbage bag in 1950.
The product was first sold to the Winnipeg General Hospital
for commercial use before Union Carbide Co. bought the idea
and started manufacturing garbage bags for home use under
the moniker Glad Garbage Bags in the late 1960s.
Top left image: Xcelsior CHARGE NG NFI New Flyer next generation battery
electric bus (CNW Group/NFI Group Inc.)
Top right image: Canada Goose (Photo: Maddy Reico)
Bottom right image: Photo courtesy of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory
