About Us Society for the The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage was founded Preservation of in 2017 in Deep River, ON. The Society’s Canada’s Nuclear goal is to collect, safeguard, and preserve texts, artifacts, memorabilia, and Heritage, Inc. knowledge associated with the history of the Canadian nuclear industry, and to display them at a Canadian Nuclear History Museum in Deep River. The proposed museum will host tours, educational programs, workshops, and historical research. We are a charitable Visit our virtual museum online to non-profit organization. see part of our extensive photo Bottom Left: The Zero Energy Experimental collection, including the early Pile (ZEEP), which first went critical in Sept 5, 1945. Top Left: The National Research history of Universal (NRU) reactor, under construction. Right: The National Research Experimental and the town of Deep River. (NRX) reactor. Photo courtesy of Canadian Nuclear Society. Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage, Inc.

PO Box 441, Deep River, ON K0J 1P0 www.NuclearHeritage.ca facebook.com/NuclearHeritage [email protected] Preserving Canada's @NuclearHeritage Nuclear Heritage What Can I Do? What to Donate?

 Join the society  Models

 Get involved in one of our committees  Books  Photographs  Save historical artifacts and documents  Film or Video Donate your time and materials   Memorabilia

 Participate in fundraising activities  Documentation  Spread word of the society  Correspondence From Left: J.L. Gray, Sir John Cockroft,  Newspaper Clippings W.B. Lewis, and Sir John Cook. Photo Cour- tesy of Canadian Nuclear Society.  Laboratory Equipment  Anecdotes History  Financial Support

Canadian nuclear history began with Ernest Rutherford and his Nobel Prize winning work at McGill University in the early 1900’s. The nuclear power industry, however, grew out of Canada’s efforts during the Second World War. The research done at the Montréal Laboratory, at the National Research Council in Ottawa, and at AECL’s Chalk River and Whiteshell Labs has led seven decades of Canadian innovation in science, healthcare, and clean reliable electricity generation. Clipping of the Springfield News, from November 2, The CANDU , an indigenous 1965 announcing WR-1, Manitoba’s first nuclear reac- ingenious, and proudly Canadian invention. tor, had reached criticality at 8:04 the previous day. Photo courtesy of Corp.