Before there was OPEC, lipstick and nylons, Iran and Alberta and even Titusville and Colonel Drake there was Petrolia and OIl Springs Ontario Canada. Here is where the world's oil industry started. In an age when few people traveled past the borders of their own counties, the pioneer oilman went out from the wilderness of Southeastern Ontario to discover most of the major oil fields of the world. They were on the Gobi Desert and in the Arctic, in Iran when it was Persia, Indonesia, Australia, and Russia+87 counties in all. In the 1920s, Hard Oilers brought home Alberta Tar Sands to pave the streets of Petrolia.
                      Today oil is still pumping in the Oil Springs and Petrolia fields driven by a central power plant with jerker rods reaching out to each well, just as it was in the early ca.1850s. At Petrolia , such a field comprising of 60 acres has been set aside as a living museum, a major historic recreational exhibit. Here wells are being restored and the visitor will see crude oil as it was drawn from the ground from the beginning. The Petrolia Discovery gives its visitors a deeper appreciation of those Canadian pioneers who struggled to understand and control a natural resource. You will see the workshop and training ground and working wells and equipment of the men who over 140 years ago created one of the biggest businesses ever in the world. The Oil Business. Come to Petrolia Discovery and see it as it was. The pics below illustrate how a small Oil Village like Petrolia  looked ca.1850s or 60s
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