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    612-822-4611

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Growing Up in the Oil Patch

Growing Up in the Oil Patch

Schmidt, John

Paperback

Business GeneralCanadian HistoryEnvironmental Studies

Publisher Price: $11.95

ISBN10: 0920474578
ISBN13: 9780920474570
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Published: Jun 30 1989
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.35 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

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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