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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 It All Started in Pennsylvania; Chapter 2 Apprenticeship in Findlay Ohio; Chapter 3 Transporting Nitro to Pelee Island; Chapter 4 Over Lake Erie Ice to Leamington; Chapter 5 A Contract with Eugene Coste; Chapter 6 The Langham, Saskatchewan Adventure; Chapter 7 29 Million Cubic Feet a Day; Chapter 8 British Investment in Bow Island Gas; Chapter 9 Medicine Hat -- All Hell for a Basement; Chapter 10 Joseph Grant; Frosty and Tiny's Nemesis; Chapter 11 J.D. McGregor's Prairie Development Scheme; Chapter 12 The Alamo Hotel at Suffield; Chapter 13 Wetaskiwin and Camrose. |
| Summary |
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" Phi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Phillips, Tiny, 1873-1964 -- Career in petroleum industry and trade.
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Phillips, Tiny, 1873-1964. |
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Martin, Frosty, 1873- -- Career in petroleum industry and trade.
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Martin, Frosty, 1873- |
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Martin, Frosty, né 1873. |
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Phillips, Tiny, 1873-1964. |
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Petroleum workers -- United States -- History.
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Petroleum workers. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Oil fields -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Oil fields. |
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Social aspects. |
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Petroleum engineering -- United States -- History.
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Petroleum engineering. |
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Petroleum engineers -- United States -- Biography.
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Petroleum engineers. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schmidt, John, 1923- Growing up in the oil patch. Toronto, Ont. : Natural Heritage, ©1989 0920474578 9780920474570 (DLC) 90124230 (OCoLC)22116403 |
| ISBN |
9781554881802 (electronic book) |
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1554881803 (electronic book) |
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9781459713864 (electronic book) |
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1459713869 (electronic book) |
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0920474578 |
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9780920474570 |
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