NRC Centennial Celebrations

The Governor General attended the 100th anniversary celebration of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) and witnessed the transfer of the first colour-standardized Canadian flag to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. On the photo, from left to right: Ms. Marie Aubrey, Acting President of the NRC, the Governor General and Mr. Alex Benay, President and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation.

Mr. Tom Jenkins, Chair of the NRC Council introduced the Governor General.

"Research is integral to innovation, and vice versa. The NRC is helping us to build a more innovative Canada, and a more knowledgeable one."

"There has been an extraordinary period of discovery over the past 100 years, made even more striking by the fact that when the NRC first began, there were fewer than 50 full-time researchers in the physical sciences in Canada. Today, there are thousands of researchers doing excellent and necessary work every day!"