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The Glenbow Library and Archives, located at the Glenbow Western Research Centre at the University of Calgary has an extensive collection of petroleum records and photos. Samples of the information held follows.

Glenbow Archives

Organizational Records

  • Canadian Petroleum Association fonds, 1927 - 1992.
  • Independent Petroleum Association, to 1992.
  • Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists fonds, 1926 - 1995.
  • Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen, to 2000.
  • Petroleum Industry Oral History Project collection, 1981 - 1991.
  • Desk and Derrick Club, to 1999.

Personal Records

  • Dingman Family fonds, 1894 - 1964.
  • William Stewart Herron fonds, 1906 - 1937.
  • Charles Hetherington, 1970 - 1995.
  • J. F. "Spi" Langston fonds, 1930 - 1989.
  • Leslie Orr Rowland fonds, 1882 - 1991.
  • Photographs - Bill Farmilo, Frosty Martin, Mathieson Photo Studio collections.

Corporate Records

  • Royalite Oil Company Ltd. fonds, 1911 - 1981.
  • Home Oil Company Ltd. fonds, 1936 - 1972.

Glenbow Library

  • Publishers' copy of the Western Oil Examiner - one of the primary industry journals from 1920 - 1950.
  • annual reports from oil companies headquartered in Calgary.
  • biographical information on many of the industry's leaders.

For more information:

Glenbow's website - https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/

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Glenbow Library

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