Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Supplement, Newspaper |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2024.006.002 |
Date |
13 Nov 1983 |
Title |
Petrolia/Oil Springs. The traditions continue |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper article in "The London Free Press" Sunday news magazine titled, " Petrolia/Oil Springs, the traditions continue. The front page has a photo of Oil Springs oil producer, Ellwood Ayrheart next to a small metal pumpjack. The article is at the centre fold and next two pages. There are short articles with titles, " 125 years of farming Ontario Oil" which is a story of Charlie Fairbank; "Handed-down know-how" which is a story of Murray Bradley and the Oil Well Supply Company; "He took Petrolia skills to the Middle East", of a story of International Driller, Ernie Kells; "It all began with a well in a swamp", an article of the history of the oil industry in Lambton county; and "He kept the rigs going when times were tough", an article about Oil Springs oil producers, Ellwood Ayrheart and Lonnie Barnes. |
Search Terms |
International Driller Iraq Mesopotamia Oil Oil Field Oil History Oil Industry Oil Springs Oil Well Supply Co. Persia VanTuyl & Fairbank Hardware Petrolia |
People |
Ayrheart, Ellwood Ayrheart,Ellwood Barnes, Donna Barnes, Lonnie Bradley, Murray Fairbank, Charlie Kells, Ernest |