Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC FD |
Catalog Number |
OMC FD.001.009.010.p |
Date |
1920 |
Description |
Photograph of a group of International drillers posed under a shelter in three rows. Most of the men are wearing white suits. The photo was taken in Borneo in 1920. Front row: Charles Olmstead, Albert Haley, Steve Guerin, Fred Webb, George York, Charles MacAlpine, Lawrence MacMillan, James Brooks Middle row: Jay Zimmer, P.J. Norman, George Randall, Dave Wykoff, Joe Patterson, Alf Brownlee, Roy Fortney, Alf Webb Back row: Stuart Nisbet, -- Ransom, Jack Black, Alf Foien, William Gillespie, Lewis Urig, James Nisbet. |
Provenance |
Frederick Webb was a big man - a man renowned for his strength, both on the rugby fields of his home-town Petrolia and on the international drilling fields. Few drillers took their families overseas, but this did not stop Webb from taking his wife Lizzie and his children Lyla, Gladys, and James across the world twice. Hired on a three-year contract with the Royal Dutch Drilling Co. in 1906, working in Borneo, Sarawak, Sumatra, and Celebes Islands, Webb and family had opportunities to see more of the world than many of their friends and family in Southern Ontario. Retirement did not sit well with Webb, only two years after retiring, he found himself accepting an offer from Alf Burns in 1924, the Vice-President of Imperial Oil, to spend two years working in Ecuador, overseeing a subsidiary called the Petroleum Company. After returning to Petrolia, Webb managed his own oil rigs for a number of years, permanently retiring to London, Ontario in 1954. |
Print Size |
13.9cm x 10cm |
Search Terms |
Borneo Group Photo International Drillers Photograph White Muslin Suit |
People |
Blake, Jake Brooks, James Brownlee, Alf Foien, Alf. Fortney, Roy Gillespie, William Guerin, Steve Haley, Albert MacAlpine, Charles McMillan, Lawrence Nisbet, James Nisbet, Stuart Norman, P.J. Olmstead, Charles Patterson, Joe Randell, George Ransom Urig, Lewis Webb, Alf Webb, Fred Wykoff, Dave York, George Zimmer, Jay |
Place |
Borneo |