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HARD OILER!: THE STORY OF CANADIANS' QUEST FOR OIL AT HOME By Gary May **Mint**
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- ISBN-10
- 1550023160
- Publication Name
- Dundurn
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781550023169
- Book Title
- Hard Oiler! : the Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, History
- Topic
- Canada / General, General, Petroleum, Natural Resources
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss. An unlikely trio indeed. And yet these three seemingly unconnected elements came together at just the right moment in time, to create one of the great but little known stories of Canada's early years. Hard Oiler is the story of how oil was discovered near Sarnia, Ontario, one hundred and forty years ago, and how the subsequent exploitation of that oil gave birth to what is arguably the world's most important industry today. This great Canadian milestone can be traced back to the summer of 1858 when James Miller Williams struck oil in Lambton County, in Southwestern Ontario. Soon thereafter Williams dug the first commercial oil well in North America - if not the world - and began refining and marketing his product as machine lubricant and lighting oil. This set off a chain of events that resulted in the establishment of an industry on which our very life today is so heavily dependent. Hard Oiler traces these events including the gold rush-like frenzy that saw the overnight rise and decline of the frontier town of Oil Springs, and the creation of the much more permanent community of Petrolia, which still flashes its Victorian charm to this day. It also recalls the exotic adventures of Lambton oil drillers as they travelled the globe opening up oil fields from Java to the Ukraine, and from America to Venezuela and the Middle East.
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Publisher
Dundurn Press
ISBN-10
1550023160
ISBN-13
9781550023169
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2616756
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hard Oiler! : the Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Canada / General, General, Petroleum, Natural Resources
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
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Hd9574.C22m385 1998
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Readers of Hard Oiler! Will learn not only the answers to trivia questions but also about an unknown period in the history of the Canadian petroleum industry.
Copyright Date
1998
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99-181632
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Yes
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