Welcome to the Petrolia Heritage Web site
The Largest
Website of It's Kind
In The World !
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Imagine a swampy forest at the
Northern tip of the Carolinian Forest. In the ca 1850s
men came to the Enniskillen Township area and found
oil floating in pools on the muddy ground surface. The area
Natives had been scooping up the oil for hundreds of years. With
nothing but picks and shovels these men started digging and harvesting
this 'black gold'. This website is presented here for you to
understand not only the development of oil technology but the
people that pioneered it. Please enjoy this look at the Petrolia
and Oil Springs area, and even better come for a visit.
"........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
PLEASE SEND ME YOUR PETROLIA AREA HISTORIC ITEMS
Many a community has lamented the loss of a much loved landmark. I
know of none however that have ever regretted saving a beautiful historic
building or place.
Michael
Seaman, Vice Chair and Ontario Governor of the Heritage Canada Foundation
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