Welcome to the Petrolia Heritage
Web site
The Largest
Website of It's Kind In The World !
754.16 MEG
3,634 Files
and Growing,,,,well
over 1 million and a half hits per year !
Since I was just a small child I have
been interested in history. Growing up in the 1960s many of the original
Petrolians from the 1800s were still around and stories of the early oil
days could be heard constantly. I became more and more focused on Petrolia's
history. During the 1970s I found many local garage sales where I bought
Petrolia pictures and postcards. As time went on there was much more to
be found.
The mid 1990s found
the Internet come to Sarnia Lambton and I jumped in. The Internet opened
a whole new world for history buffs around the globe. I was almost a celebrity
amongst friends and family as no one was into computers and this new wonder
'the Internet' was an enigma that no one really understood until much
later.
It was around 1999 and
2000 that I toyed with the idea of a website to highlight my collection
of Petrolia stuff and text. This idea became a reality in early 2001 and
slowly this website became the largest of it's kind in the world. Today
this website gets well over 1,200,000 hits per year. There are thousands
of pictures and items of interest here for you. Right from the start I
posted Petrolia Heritage Committee items here and have continued to do
so.
I have constant comments
sent to me and more and more pictures and text. I hope that you continue
to send me these great items. Thank you so much to all of you that have
allowed me to scan your items and send me pics. Please continue to visit
my website as it is presented for your enjoyment and to discover our
History!
Enjoy your tour through the Petrolia Ontario Heritage web site,
but for a real experience come and visit Canada's Victorian Oil Town.
If you have any questions or comments, please Email me .
"........when I
was failing you in history ,,,,who would have thought"...........my retired
history teacher Bill Parks
"What an excellent website!
The material is wonderful and the structure of the site is easy to use.
It was nice to read about old Petrolia and fill in a lot of missing
information." Paul
Smith
"Your Petrolia site is just wonderful!!
I can’t wait to show it to my Dad who lived there as a kid" .
Mary Lanigan
"Thank you so much for your website"
Linda Dodge
"I very much appreciated
the heritage web site" Robert
Zimmerman
Martin Dillon
PHed IMcPt Hsd
Chairperson
Petrolia
Heritage Committee
E-mail
Martin Dillon at,
martyd@ebtech.net
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photo by Ellacott
It is with great sadness
that Petrolia Heritage says good bye to a friend. (Oct 20/09)
Gord Parsons of Petrolia and husband of long time
Heritage member Bonnie Parsons.
Gord was a veteran of WW2 {Gordon served his
country in the Royal Canadian Engineers - 11th Field Co.}
and a well known person around Town. Gord was 88 years old and
will be missed not only by friends but in local coffee shops.
Gord was also a Ham Operator with the calll sign VE3-GNP. 73s
OM !
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