Welcome to the Petrolia Heritage Web site
The Largest
Website of It's Kind In The World !
737.16 MEG
3,596 Files
and Growing,,,,well over
1 million 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
How to Designate your
Property!!!!!!
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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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