Remembering an iconic Ottawa creation, the Contempra phone

When he was six years old, John Tyson won a sand castle-building contest at McNabb Park.
In retrospect, the other youngsters probably never had a chance. Tyson, who now resides in Barrhaven, went on to become an industrial designer best known for creating one of Canada’s most iconic and elegant products — the Contempra phone.
You can be forgiven if you’re too young to remember it by name — its decade-long heyday began half a century ago, after all. But for a time, the sle