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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Black Gold: Back to Start
People Foreign Drillers Equiptment Oil Heritage Oil Museum Fun Stuff

 

 

Black gold team 2001--- Angela Beaudrow, Jonathan Piitz, Tammy Auranen --- omcchin@ebtech.net

 


Hugh Nixon Shaw

Hugh N. Shaw

Hugh N. Shaw

Hugh Nixon Shaw became famous for bringing in the first "gusher" or "wild well" in the world. Hugh started out painting and decorating the hulls of ships, later became a shopkeeper, joined the gold rush, and finally ended his quest as an oil driller in Lambton County.

Follow Shaw's story and learn how he found his oil on the exact day that he had decided to call it quits, and how he would die in his own well.



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