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The Petroleum History Society established an awards program in 1995 to
recognize the valuable contributions of people and groups helping to keep
our story alive. These awards recognize contributions which encourage the study, communication,
preservation, and enjoyment of Canadian petroleum industry history. The Society's Awards Committee also considers the projects in terms of relevance, depth, availability and affordability (access by the public).
Nominations are accepted from the general public as well as from Petroleum History Society members. To nominate someone for an award, please send an email to info@petroleumhistory.ca
and we will contact you with more information.
Award Winners
Note: The awards are presented the year following - for example 2011
Awards are presented in 2012.
Book | Article | Multimedia
| Preservation | Lifetime
Achievement
Book of the Year |
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Recipient |
Achievement |
| 2011 |
Joyce E. Hunt |
Local Push – Global Pull: The Untold Story Of The Athabaska Oilsands 1900 - 1930
Published By Pushpull Limited |
| 2010 |
John McQuarrie |
The Alberta Oil Patch - Then and Now
Published by Magic Light Publishing and John McQuarrie Photography |
| 2009 |
Harley Hotchkiss |
Hat Trick - A Life in the Hockey Rink, Oil Patch and Community
with Paul Grescoe
Dundurn Press |
| 2008 |
Sydney Sharpe |
Staying in the Game - The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman
Dundurn Press |
| 2007 |
Dick Haskayne |
Northern Tigers: building ethical Canadian corporate champions: a memoir and a manifesto
with Paul Grescoe
Key Porter Books, 320 p. |
| 2006 |
Christina Burr |
Canada’s Victorian Oil Town – The transformation of
Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community
Queen’s
University Press, 295 p. |
| 2005 |
Sandy Gow |
Roughnecks, rock bits and rigs: the evolution of oil well
drilling technology in Alberta, 1883-1970
University of Calgary Press, 451 p. |
| 2004 |
Paul Chastko |
Developing Alberta's Oil Sands - From Karl Clark to Kyoto |
| 2003 |
Paul Rubak |
Big Wheels Across the Prairie – A History of
trucking in Alberta prior to 1960 |
| 2002 |
Peter C. Newman |
Continental Reach - The Westcoast Energy story |
| 2001 |
Frank Dabbs |
Branded by the Wind - The Life and Times of Bill Herron |
| 2000 |
Fred Stenson |
The Last Stack: Entrepreneurism and the Environment |
| 1999 |
Bryce Cameron |
Under Sand, Sea and Ice |
| 1998 |
Gary May |
Hard Oiler!: The Story of Early Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad
Gary May's website - Books section has ordering information - www.garymay.ca |
| 1997 |
Penelope Grey and Laura Krowchuk |
Spirit of Success - the Sproule Story |
| 1996 |
Neil Leeson |
Oil Patch Jeopardy: Torn in the U.S.A. |
| 1995 |
Beverley Jones |
High Heels 'n' Oil Rigs |
| 1994 |
Aubrey Kerr |
Redwater |
Top
Article of the Year |
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Recipient |
Achievement |
| 2011 |
Peter Mckenzie-Brown
Robert Bott
Adriana Davies
Gordon Jaremko |
The Hourglass Series: Reflections On The Oilsands Oral History Project
Published in Oilsands Review, several issues In 2011 |
| 2010 |
Erik Lizée |
Betrayed: Leduc, Manning, and Surface Rights in Alberta, 1947-1955
published in Prairie Forum, Spring 2010
Vol.35, No.1, pp.77-100 |
| 2009 |
Marcelo Bucheli |
Canadian Multinational Corporations and Economic Nationalism: The Case of Imperial Oil Limited In Alberta (Canada) and Colombia, 1899-1938
published in Entreprises et Histoire
2009, No. 54, pp.67-85 |
| 2008 |
Gary May |
Ontario's Living Dinosaur
published in The Beaver
Vol.88 No.3, pp.34-39 |
| 2007 |
Laura Golebiowski |
Oil Discovery in Turner Valley - Press Reactions
published in Alberta History Magazine, Summer 2007
V.55 No.3 pp.20-27 |
| 2006 |
Tammy Nemeth |
1980: Duel of the decade
published in Alberta Formed – Alberta Transformed
Editors: M. Payne, D. Wetherell, and C. Cavanaugh
University of Alberta
Press/ University of Calgary Press. |
| 2005 |
Judy Larmour |
New Horizons: surveying for the emerging oil and gas
industry
published in: “Laying Down the Lines: a history of land surveying in Alberta”,
Brindle & Glass Publishing, Calgary, pp. 216-240. |
| 2004 |
David Breen |
Atlantic No.3 Disaster - from Raging Inferno to Beacon of Promise, published in Harm's Way - Disasters in Western Canada edited by Anthony Rasporich and Max Foran |
2003 |
Dr. Christina Burr |
Some Adventures of the Boys: Enniskillen Township’s “Foreign Drillers,” Imperialism, and
Colonial Discourse, 1873-1923,
published in Labour, v. 51, Spring 2003 |
| 2002 |
Tammy Nemeth |
Consolidating the Continental Drift: American Influence on
Diefenbaker's National Oil Policy published in the Journal
of the Canadian Historical Association |
| 2001 |
Arn Keeling |
The Rancher and the Regulators: Public Challenges to Sour Gas Industry
Regulations in Alberta, 1970-1994
published in Writing off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments,
and the Transformation of Rural Communities |
| 2000 |
Erin Steuter and Geoff Martin |
The Myth of Competitive Challenge: The Irving Oil Refinery Strike,
1994-96, and the Canadian Petroleum Industry published in Studies
in Political Economy 63 |
| 1999 |
Not awarded |
| 1998 |
Roland Priddle |
Reflections on National Energy Board Regulation 1959 - 1998 |
| 1998 |
Hugh Grant |
Solving the Labour Problem at Imperial Oil |
| 1997 |
Aubrey Kerr |
Historical series in the Reservoir magazine of the Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists |
| 1996 |
Not awarded |
| 1995 |
Cal Sikstrom |
Theodore August Link |
| 1994 |
Not awarded |
Top
Multimedia Award |
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Recipient |
Achievement |
| 2011 |
The ATCO Museum and Interactive Centre
909 - 11th Avenue SW, Calgary |
For the creation of an educational facility featuring Canadian-based technologies and the history of natural gas and electrical utilities |
| 2010 |
Gasoline Alley Museum, Heritage Park Historical Village |
For the creation of a world-class facility featuring the history of the Canadian petroleum industry |
| 2009 |
Soul of Alberta and Randal Kabatoff |
For creation and marketing of a wide range of products related to the history of the Canadian petroleum industry |
| 2008 |
Museum of the Highwood |
Living in Little Chicago
Dara Murphy - videographer and editor |
| 2007 |
Randal Kabatoff |
Alberta Petroleum Discovery Calendar 2008
published by Soul of Alberta |
| 2006 |
Murray Dale and the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board |
For the
DVD A Salute to the People of the EUB
Q and D Productions Inc. |
2005 |
Pay Dirt Pictures Inc. |
For the film Pay Dirt: Alberta Oil Sands– Centuries in the Making, Calgary.
Available from:
www.filmwest.com
1-888-982-FILM (3456) |
| 2004 |
Corb Lund Band |
Music video The Roughest Neck Around shot at the Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre at Devon AB |
| 2003 |
Oil Sands Discovery Centre in Fort McMurray |
Presents the history, science and technology of Alberta's Oil Sands - the world's largest single deposit of oil. |
| 2002 |
Good Earth Productions |
Birth of a Boom - Turner Valley Gas Plant, an episode
of the History Lands "Canada's Heritage Sites" series |
| 2001 |
Petroleum Communication Foundation |
Many excellent publications for public information and education
about the industry, including Our Petroleum Challenge. |
| 2000 |
Historic Sites and Cultural facilities Branch of Cultural Facilities
and Historical Resources Division of Alberta Community Development |
Excellent presentations and tours at the Turner Valley Town Hall
and Gas Plant |
| 1999 |
Gordon Pengilly |
Play Wildcat! |
| 1998 |
Heritage Park |
Gasoline Alley and Cable Tool Rig |
| 1997 |
The Petroleum Club |
Mural by Doug Dreiger |
| 1996 |
Energy Resources Conservation Board |
Energeum |
| 1995 |
Sharon and Stacy Stevens |
Doodlebugs - the Video |
| 1994 |
Multimedia award had not yet been established |
Top
Preservation Award |
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Recipient |
Achievement |
| 2011 |
Charlie Perry and Demille Books |
For the support provided to historical preservation through the sale of books and related merchandise related to Canadian petroleum history |
| 2010 |
Pixcom Group and Discovery Channel |
For capturing the essence of the Canadian upstream drilling industry in the documentary series "Licence to Drill" |
| 2009 |
James Kinnear |
For his support for the recording and publication of Canadian petroleum history through sponsorship of the publications of Aubrey Kerr. |
| 2008 |
Imperial Oil and Robert D. Taylor-Vaisey |
For outstanding achievement in the building of Imperial Oil's corporate archives and ensuring their permanent preservation. |
| 2007 |
Micky Gulless |
For keeping Canadian petroleum history alive through the creation and expansion of the Petroleum History Society website. |
| 2006 |
Anaid Productions Inc. and the Outdoor Life Network |
For “The
Rig”- a thirteen-episode look at life on a modern drilling rig in Alberta. |
2005 |
The Canadian Drilling Rig Museum, Selkirk, Ontario |
| 2004 |
Not awarded |
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2003 |
Dennis Teskey |
For his initiative in assembling a great collection of Turner Valley-related memorabilia. |
| 2002 |
National Film Board of Canada |
| 2001 |
Evelyn DeMille |
Long term support for publications dealing with the history of
the oil industry at her store, DeMille Technical Books. |
| 2000 |
The Arctic Institute of North America |
Preserving the engineering design and operational experience related
to petroleum exploration and production drilling in the Mackenzie
Delta and the Beaufort Sea |
| 1999 |
Ron Carey |
Long-term dedication to the collection, preservation and display
of oilpatch memorabilia |
| 1998 |
Provincial Archives of Alberta |
Archives in Edmonton |
| 1997 |
Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame and Leduc-Devon Oilfield
Historical Society |
| 1996 |
National Archives |
Archives in Ottawa |
| 1995 |
Glenbow Library and Archives |
Archives in Calgary |
| 1994 |
PanCanadian Petroleum Limited |
Archives in Calgary |
Top
Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Recipient |
| 2011 |
Paul Grescoe for excellence in research, documentation and communication related to the history of the Canadian petroleum industry. |
| 2010 |
Peter McKenzie-Brown for excellence in research, documentation and communication related to the history of the Canadian petroleum industry. |
| 2009 |
Tammy Nemeth for excellence in the documentation and interpretation of Canadian and international energy history. |
| 2008 |
Charlie Fairbank for his continuing support for the recognition of Ontario's petroleum heritage through preservation, education and communication. |
2007
2006
2005 |
Not awarded |
| 2004 |
Fred Stenson |
| 2003 |
Frank Dabbs |
| 2002 |
Robert D. (Bob) Bott |
| 2001 |
Not awarded |
| 2000 |
Gordon Jaremko |
| 1999 |
David Finch |
| 1998 |
Peter Foster |
| 1997 |
Earle Gray |
| 1996 |
David Breen |
| 1995 |
Jack Porter |
| 1994 |
Aubrey Kerr |
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