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URL(s):
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http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackgold/ (Main site)
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| Participant(s): |
Oil Museum of Canada
Industry Canada
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| Abstract: |
Site completed under auspices of Industry Canada, to relate the technological achievements of early oil producers in Lambton County, Ontario, beginning 1858. |
| Description: |
The site outlines the personalities involved in developing Canada's first oilfield, and the technology they adapted to the purpose. The resulting jerker lines, three-pole derricks and Canadian rigs would eventually be distributed around the gobe with the 'foreign drillers', Lambton-trained men who travelled afar to bring in oilfields in Java, Venezuela, Russia, Borneo, Egypt, and others. |
| Status: |
Completed |
| Genre of Initiative: |
Reference resource |
| Subject: |
History of Ontario |
| Keyword(s): |
James Miller Williams; jerker lines; gumbed; drill-rig; gusher; John Henry Fairbank; Oil Museum of Canada; Lambton County; Hugh Nixon Shaw; Petrolia; Oil Springs |
| Type of material: |
Full-text, Images |
| Language of material: |
English |
| Contact(s): |
Robert Tremain
Lambton County Museums
RR 2
Grand Bend, ON
N0M 1T0
robert.tremain@county-lambton.on.ca
519-243-2600
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| Location: |
Ontario |
Additional
Information: |
There are a dozen or more firsts associated with this field and its heritage resources: the world's first petroleum company registered; the first purchase of a property for its known oil reserves; the first production of crude oil; the world's first oil gusher, and others.
Oil Springs today is a quiet village, with marginal oil producers still using the technology developed in this field in the mid to late 1800's. |
| Initially Submitted: |
2001-10-10
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| Submitted by: |
Robert Tremain
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| Last updated on: |
2006-08-03
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