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That 1866 discovery marked the first of many gas fields found later in the southwestern part of the province." [3] "Eugene Coste, a young Paris-educated geologist who became the father of Canada's natural gas industry, brought in the first producing gas well in Essex County, Ontario, in 1889. Canada first exported natural gas in 1891 from the ...
History of the petroleum industry. One of the early generations of oil drilling infrastructure. Picture from the Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada in 1898. While the local use of oil goes back many centuries, the modern petroleum industry along with its outputs and modern applications are of a recent origin. Petroleum's status as a key component ...
Paint roller – invented by Norman James Breakey of Toronto in 1940 [7][18] Robertson screw – invented by Peter L. Robertson in 1908. Rotary vane pump – invented by Charles Barnes and patented in 1874. Toggling harpoon – an Inuit tool used by Inuit while whale or seal hunting to impale the animal when thrown.
Petroleum resources in Alberta. The discovery of the Leduc oil field in 1947 with Leduc No. 1, striking oil, ushered in a twenty-year period of intense exploration, new discoveries, and rapid expansion of Alberta's oil industry. The discovery of Leduc No. 1 led to a rapid population boom in Alberta.
Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act in 2005. [238] Court decisions, starting in 2003, had already legalized same-sex marriage in eight out of ten provinces and one of three territories. Before the passage of the ...
Petro-Canada was founded as a Crown Corporation in 1975 by an act of Parliament. It started its operations on 1 January 1976. The company was given C$1.5 billion in start-up money and easy access to new sources of capital. It was set up in Calgary, despite the hostility of existing oil firms. [citation needed] Its first president was Maurice ...
Livingstone and Johnston, later W.R. Johnston & Company, founded in Toronto in 1868, was the first in Canada to cut cloth and sew together the component pieces with the help of the newly introduced sewing machine, as part of a continuous operation. The technology of photography was introduced during these years. Eleven daguerreotypists were ...
Planned production in the Athabasca oil sands. Below is a brief timeline covering the history of the petroleum industry Alberta and its predecessor states. Date. Event. Reference. 1715. Captain Swan reports finding "gum or pitch" in the region now known as the Athabasca oil sand. The Captain's report is the first known to mention the oil sands.