Growing Up in the Oil Patch
eBook - ePub

Growing Up in the Oil Patch

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Growing Up in the Oil Patch

About this book

Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch!

The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada's gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of research, interviews, and his fortuitous discovery of a rare, historically important scribbler, John Schmidt traces the paths of two enterprising American-born drillers, "Frosty" Martin and "Tiny" Phillips, whose drive and ingenuity were encouraged by British and Canadian promoters and financiers. Their entrepreneurial spirit took them initially to Leamington, Ontario, and ultimately into the heart of the oil patch in Western Canada.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1 It All Started in Pennsylvania
  7. Chapter 2 Apprenticeship in Findlay Ohio
  8. Chapter 3 Transporting Nitro to Pelee Island
  9. Chapter 4 Over Lake Erie Ice to Leamington
  10. Chapter 5 A Contract with Eugene Coste
  11. Chapter 6 The Langham, Saskatchewan Adventure
  12. Chapter 7 29 Million Cubic Feet a Day
  13. Chapter 8 British Investment in Bow Island Gas
  14. Chapter 9 Medicine Hat—All Hell for a Basement
  15. Chapter 10 Joseph Grant; Frosty and Tiny’s Nemesis
  16. Chapter 11 J.D. McGregor’s Prairie Development Scheme
  17. Chapter 12 The Alamo Hotel at Suffield
  18. Chapter 13 Wetaskiwin and Camrose
  19. Chapter 14 Difficulties at Viking
  20. Chapter 15 Oil Strike Near Olds
  21. Chapter 16 George E. Buck’s Heavenly Kingdom
  22. Chapter 17 The Salted Oil Well at Turner Valley
  23. Chapter 18 A.F.A. Coyne’s Fellowship With Farmer
  24. Chapter 19 The Conspiracy Against Coyne
  25. Chapter 20 A New Start in Texas
  26. Chapter 21 Martin and Decker Teamed Up
  27. Chapter 22 Frosty the Flying Salesman
  28. Chapter 23 The Long Beach Harbour Development
  29. Chapter 24 Frosty Martin the Innovator
  30. Chapter 25 Frosty Martin the Inventor
  31. Chapter 26 Tiny Phillips Wildcats at Slave Lake
  32. About the Author
  33. Publisher’s Notes