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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Petrolia Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time

Petrolia Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time

Raue, Barbara

Paperback

Series: Cruising Ontario, Book 137

Photography History & Criticism

ISBN10: 1534699309
ISBN13: 9781534699304
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 16 2016
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Petrolia is a town in Ontario twenty minutes from Sarnia, and fifty minutes from London.Following the discovery of oil at Oil Springs in 1857, prospectors extended their search to the entire township of Enniskillen. At the site of Petrolia, which contained two small settlements with post offices named Durance and Ennis, a well was brought into production in 1860. The following year a small refinery was opened and the Durance Post Office renamed Petrolea. In 1865-66, the drilling of the King well established Petrolia as the major oil producing center in Canada and its population soared from about three hundred to two thousand three hundred. Oil men from Petrolia travelled to the far reaches of the world (Gobi Desert, Arctic, Iran, Indonesia, the United States, Australia, Russia, and over eighty other countries) teaching others how to find and extract crude oil. Some oil fields in the area are still operational to this day.Oil enticed people to come here, but Petrolia was created, nurtured, and sustained by hardworking visionaries, shopkeepers, builders, drillers, laborers, and leaders.

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