Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Catalog Number |
OMC FD.001.009.009.p |
Date |
1902 |
Description |
Black and white photograph of the Petrolia Rugby Football club team in 1902. Fred Webb is in the back row, fourth from the left. One man in the middle row is wearing a suit and the others are all wearing sports uniforms. Written on the bottom of the photo: Petrolea Rugby Football club 1902. |
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 |
14cm x 10.4cm |
Search Terms |
Group Photo Petrolea Petrolia Photograph Rugby Sport Teams Uniform |
People |
Webb, Fred |
Place |
Petrolia, Ontario |