Black gold team 2001--- Angela Beaudrow, Jonathan Piitz, Tammy Auranen --- omcchin@ebtech.net
| This website was created to share the exciting history of the discovery of oil in the Sarnia-Lambton County, and our community's sense of unique identity and self-pride. It was the Oil Museum of Canada's initiative to create this exciting website devoted to the history of the Oil Heritage District. Created with the generous sponsorship of Industry Canada's Digital Collections Program, in partnership with Lambton County Library, the site shares with all Canadians the great pride that we take in our local 19th century oil achievements.
The achievements presented on this site include the first commercial oil well, the first refinery, the world's first petroleum company, the first oil gusher, and many others. But more than statistics and a listing of technical innovations, this website has been created to relate the story of individual personalities whose perseverance and insight helped to shape a national industry, and lay a foundation of a global way of life. |
| On this site you will have access to a wide variety of images, texts and links all related to the Oil industry and way of life that was the backbone of many small southwestern towns in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The oil industry still commands a certain way of life even in today's towns.
To navigate through this site, you will use the buttons at the top to bring you to the different sections of the history of the industry. Click the "BLACK GOLD: Canada's Oil Heritage" button at any time to go back to the start. To see the section descriptions, click here. |
| We have provided links to the glossary, book excerpts, credits and links at the bottom of the page. The glossary provides definitions for many terms related to the oil industry found on the site. The Book Excerpts section has quotes from books that were used as references on this site. The Credits section gives a brief biography of the team who created this site and finally, the Links section contains many interesting links that relate to this site. |
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