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Oil Springs, 1890, 1965-1968, 1982-1999 (includes facsimiles)

 File — Box: 276

Scope and Contents

Kemp conducted field work on structures in the oil fields of the Fairbank Oil Company, Canada’s oldest petroleum company, and he wrote the article, "The Origins of Ontario Oil Production" with Michael Caplinger. The box includes his research materials, including booklets, postcards, stationary, pamphlets, correspondence, handwritten notes, photographs, books, compact discs, and an audiocassette. The box also includes facsimile book excerpts and student papers. Subjects include the Canadian Oil Museum in Oil Springs, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; the town of Petrolia, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; the oil and petroleum industry in North America (especially in Canada), and the Fairbank Oil Company. Highlights include an audiotape of a speech Kemp made to the Ontario Petroleum Institute, most likely on November 5, 2002. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 5: thirteen pages of a facsimile book excerpt (1996), two clippings (1999), one brochure (undated), and one drawing (1999). A student paper housed on microfilm has been separated to its own box (see Microfilm Reel 2).

Dates

  • Creation: 1890, 1965-1968, 1982-1999 (includes facsimiles)

Repository Details

Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository

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