The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation has been recognising and encouraging Innovation in Canada since 1982. By means of a nomination, Canadian resident citizens, who have demonstrated recent innovative talent in developing and successfully marketing a new concept, process or procedure, may be eligible for one of these awards.
Malcolm Jefferson won a CA$10,000 Manning Innovation Award (sponsored by The Edper Foundation) in 2002 for his invention of the WeeRide Kangaroo.
Read the media backgrounder for the 2002 Manning Innovation Award.
NB: Centric-Safe Haven Bicycle Child Carrier is the name by which the WeeRide Kangaroo was originally known.