Links to related websites

Daily Oil Bulletin - publishing for more than 75 years.

Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame

Areas and Fields

Norman Wells Museum

http://history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/oil/the-leduc-era-1947-to-1970s/preparation-for-the-leduc-discovery/leduc-field-booms/default.aspx

Fairbank Oil at Oil Springs - "Since 1861, the family producing oil longer than anyone in the world."

Village of Oil Springs, Ontario - Celebrating in 2008 to commemorate the discovery of oil in 1858

Oil Museum of Canada at Oil Springs, Ontario

The Turner Valley Oilfield Society

1947 Film - The Story Of Oil

Companies and Organizations

https://www.imperialoil.ca/en-ca/company/about/history/our-history

People

Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame

Hard Oiler!: The Story of Early Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad, by Gary May - received a Petroleum History Society Award for Book of the Year in 1998.

Available from the gift shop at Lambton County Museums - Oil Museum of Canada

Abraham Gesner, Honored Member of the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame

"Abraham Gesner saved more whales than Greenpeace ever will"
Essay - How Capitalism Saved the Whales by James S. Robbins.

Monument to Gesner at Chipman Corner, Kings County, Nova Scotia and links to more Gesner information
http://www.newscotland1398.net/kingsco/gesnermem.html

Gesner’s Museum of Natural History at the New Brunswick Museum

Abraham Pineo Gesner on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pineo_Gesner

Gesner in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Library and Archives of Canada:
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38570

Gesner on Virtual American Biographies website (scroll down on page for bio):
http://famousamericans.net/abrahamgesner/

Gesner's kerosene patent was dated March 27, 1855. At Brainy History you can see what else happened in 1855, or on March 27 in other years:
http://brainyhistory.com/events/1855/march_27_1855_53292.html

Dig a little history with FREE resources at earlegray.com

Read, or download and print these articles and book excerpts:

• Gesner and Williams: the Canadians who launched the petroleum industry.
• The Governor General and the 40-year frustrated search for a fortune in oil.
• How Ottawa engineered a global uranium cartel.
• Trade wars: 140 years of Canadian-American friction.
• Riding the oil roller coaster. (June 18, 2008: the world oil price is more than $140 a barrel and some analysts predict it will climb to $200. In a National Post article that day, I predicted a big drop in oil prices. Less than three months later, the price had fallen more than 30%).
• When Calgarians used oil stocks for wallpaper.
• and more

General

Petroleum History Institute in Oil City PA

Areas and Fields

Author Matthew M. Day of Lubbock, TX USA has written books about Texas petroleum history, including:

• Frank Isett: and the Myth of the Wealthy Oilman, June 2019 - He helped drill for oil and gas in west-central Texas near Abilene.
• A Last Hurrah in Texas?: W. P. Soash and South Plains Oil, 1936-1955 - including information on his Slaughter oil discovery in 1936 near Lubbock, June 2019
• Fueling Victory at Home: How the Mallet Ranch of Texas and Its Relationship With the Oil Industry Helped Reshape the American Southwest in the 1940s, November 2019
• Accidental Resurgence?: The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in West Texas: How Oil, Raw Materials, and Agriculture (Tried To) Save the Railroad Industry on the South Plains at Midcentury, April 2020
• In Other Headlines...: Analyzing a Texas Newspaper's Coverage of a Major Period in Recent World History: Book I: The Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991, November 2020
• Ranches and Rigs: How Three Texas Panhandle Ranches Helped Shape the Oil and Gas Industry's Formative Years, November 2020
• and more at https://www.amazon.com/author/matthewmday/

Companies and Organizations