{"id":478,"date":"2022-04-09T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=478"},"modified":"2022-04-09T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:48:38","slug":"olivia-poole-inventor-jolly-jumper","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/chapter\/olivia-poole-inventor-jolly-jumper\/","title":{"raw":"Olivia Poole - inventor - Jolly Jumper - First Indigneous Woman in Canada to Patent an Invention","rendered":"Olivia Poole &#8211; inventor &#8211; Jolly Jumper &#8211; First Indigneous Woman in Canada to Patent an Invention"},"content":{"raw":"Olivia Poole and the Jolly Jumper - First Indigneous Woman in Canada to Patent an Invention\r\n\r\nSusan Olivia Davis Poole, inventor (born 18 April 1889 in Devils Lake, North Dakota; died 10 October 1975 in Ganges, BC). Olivia Poole was raised on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/ojibwa\">Ojibwe<\/a> White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. There, she was inspired by the traditional practice of using a bouncing <a href=\"https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/cradle-board\">cradleboard<\/a> to soothe babies. In 1957, she patented her invention of the baby jumper, under the name Jolly Jumper, making her one of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/aboriginal-people\">Indigenous<\/a> women in Canada to patent and profit from an invention.\r\n\r\nFor more information on Olivia Poole:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/olivia-poole\">https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/olivia-poole<\/a>\r\n\r\nTo see a video of the Jolly Jumper in action from 1957 please visit CBC:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/the-jolly-jumper-a-new-canadian-creation-in-1957-1.4776616\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/the-jolly-jumper-a-new-canadian-creation-in-1957-1.4776616<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe company is still based in Ontario, Canada\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollyjumper.com\/pages\/about-us\">https:\/\/www.jollyjumper.com\/pages\/about-us<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>Olivia Poole and the Jolly Jumper &#8211; First Indigneous Woman in Canada to Patent an Invention<\/p>\n<p>Susan Olivia Davis Poole, inventor (born 18 April 1889 in Devils Lake, North Dakota; died 10 October 1975 in Ganges, BC). Olivia Poole was raised on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/ojibwa\">Ojibwe<\/a> White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. There, she was inspired by the traditional practice of using a bouncing <a href=\"https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/cradle-board\">cradleboard<\/a> to soothe babies. In 1957, she patented her invention of the baby jumper, under the name Jolly Jumper, making her one of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/aboriginal-people\">Indigenous<\/a> women in Canada to patent and profit from an invention.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Olivia Poole:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/olivia-poole\">https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/olivia-poole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see a video of the Jolly Jumper in action from 1957 please visit CBC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/the-jolly-jumper-a-new-canadian-creation-in-1957-1.4776616\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/the-jolly-jumper-a-new-canadian-creation-in-1957-1.4776616<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company is still based in Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollyjumper.com\/pages\/about-us\">https:\/\/www.jollyjumper.com\/pages\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-478","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":476,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/478\/revisions\/481"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/476"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/478\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}