Stories of Canadian petroleum history are in this branch of the website.
We plan to keep adding to this section.
| Archives
Newsletters |
- all recent newsletters, with old ones being added infrequently |
|
Petroleum History Bibliography
Updated January 7, 2010
(Now 606 pages) |
- by Doug Cass who welcomes
additions and comments
- 606 pages, 2 meg PDF
- archival records
- books
- theses
- published articles
- company histories
- biographies and autobiographies
- fiction, drama, poetry and music
- humour
- film and video
- author index
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| Old Companies |
Research about old oil and gas companies that we have already researched in response to queries from people using our website. |
| 2008 Celebration |
2008 Celebration of First Commercial Oil Well in Oil Springs ON - external site about events |
| Chronologies of Events Before Leduc |
Thanks to Frank Dabbs for permission to reprint his chronologies of:
- Alberta Petroleum Exploration and Discovery 1875-1947
- Alberta Petroleum Public Policy Milestones 1670-1945
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| Canadian Beginnings |
1846-1870 the contributions of Abraham Gesner, Charles Nelson Tripp, James Miller Williams, and Hugh Nixon Shaw to the modern petroleum era. |
| Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery |
1883 discovery at Langevin Siding (now Alderson) by Micky Gulless |
| Walking Tour - Downtown Calgary |
Petroleum history walking tour of downtown Calgary
- including handout from July 2007 event |
| Historical Posters for 2004 CSEG Convention |
10 posters on a variety of topics |
| PHS Speakers |
People who have made presentations to
the Petroleum History Society with links to issue where summarized in Archives newsletters. |
| PHS Speeches |
Presentation slides, audio, or text versions of speeches and presentations made to PHS meetings on historical topics. |
| Stories |
Petroleum history stories |
| Oral History Project |
- reports on the Oral History Project including who was interviewed. |
| Petroleum History Society Awards |
- award winners |
| 6 historical events |
6 events in the first 100 years of Canada's petroleum industry |
Petroleum Collection
at the Glenbow |
An overview of some of the petroleum records housed at the Glenbow
Archives and Library in Calgary |
| Petroleum History Books |
Petroleum history books
and Calgary sources |
| Links to related websites |
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| Date added |
Story |
| April 2010 |
Rhetoric and Reality: Albertans and Their Oil Industry Under Peter Lougheed
By Erik Lizée
Masters Thesis - University of Alberta
143-page PDF
1.7 meg |
| November 2009 |
From North to South: How Norman Wells led to Leduc
by Peter McKenzie-Brown, PHS Director
(link takes you to his blog "Language Matters")
Presented to The International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, August 11, 2009 |
| September 2008 |
Gesner and Williams: two Canadians who launched the world's petroleum industry - by Earle Gray, PHS Member
(reproduced with the author's permission) 12-page PDF, 149k |
| September 2005 |
Petroleum History Society posters for Great Explorations: Canada and Beyond, the 2004 Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists National Convention. |
| September 2005 |
Link to a 1998 issue of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists's Recorder which contained notes for an address by former PHS member Peter McKenzie-Brown, author of The Richness of Discovery: Amoco's First 50 Years in Canada (1948-1998) who helped find two rare documents of historical interest while researching the book. |
| May 2005 |
Canadian Beginnings - 1846-1870 the contributions of Abraham Gesner, Charles Nelson Tripp, James Miller Williams, and Hugh Nixon Shaw to the modern petroleum era. |
| December 2004 |
Photos from the ceremony unveiling the plaque to commemorate the oil boom town of Little Chicago/ Royalties in southern Alberta |
| January 2003 |
Stories from
the 75-year history of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist
by David Finch, Historian (link no longer available)
- webcast of December 12/02 luncheon presentation to the CSPG via
the CSPG website
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| April 2002 |
Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery
by Micky Gulless |
| October 2001 |
Six Historical Events in the First 100 Years
of Canada's Petroleum Industry
commemorated by the PHS with a set of collector pins |
