HARD OIL! (1980) | National Film Board of Canada

"The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations blend with archival photographs and diaries to tell the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of a boom that went bust."
A National Film Board of Canada Production, HARD OIL!, 1980.
28 min 14 s
Directed by Nicholas Kendall
Produced by David Springbett and Brian Arnott

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Excellant video. As a Hard Oiler born and raised on Eureka Street in Petrolia, and my family owning oil patches back to the late 1800's this video is near and dear to my roots. My Great GrandFather drilled most of Marthaville (then Coplestone) oil wells and the main oil field remained in the family for 100 years until it sold when this video was released in 1980. The only thing absent from thid video is how James Miller Williams started and operated the first ever oil refinery in the world called The Canadian Oil Refinery in 1871 which replaced the 16 remote oil refineries that were basically a massive kettle still along the banks of Bear Creek. I have 2 Great GrandFathers that worked at that refinery. That refinery was moved to were the current Shell Oil Refinery is now in Corunna. Thanx for this awesome trip down memory lane... haven't seen this video since I was a kid