Edmonton / Winnipeg / Petrolia / Toronto / Denver / Vegreville / Montreal / Ottawa / Athabasca / Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / New York City / Calgary / /
Company
Canadian Pacific Railway / Sun Oil Company / Shell Canada / Clair Peden / Sun Oil Co. Ltd. / Canadian Oil Companies Limited / Bonnet Falls Power Company / Suncor Energy / Northern Alberta Exploration Company / Imperial Oil / Richfield Oil Corporation / International Bitumen Company / Oil Sands Limited. / Sunoco Inc. / Royalite / Ontario Energy Corporation / Cities Service / Shell / Draper / Petro-Canada / June Warren Publishing Ltd. / Oils Limited / Northern Transportation Company / JuneWarren Publishing Canada / Alcan Oil Company / Vincent Investment Consultants Ltd. / Hudson Bay / Nesbitt Burns Inc. / Fort McMurray / Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited / Canadian Northern Oil Sands Products Limited / Alberta Salt Company / /
Continent
North America / /
Country
Venezuela / Canada / Saudi Arabia / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Funding / Reorganization / M&A / Natural Disaster / Person Communication and Meetings / FDA Phase / Person Travel / Force Majeure / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research / From Sun Oil’s headquarters / Great Canadian Oil Sands’ mine / GCOS plant / Coast refinery / Churchill Harbour / storehouse BY EARLE GRAY CHAPTER / Abasand plant / University of Alberta / McGill University / /
IndustryTerm
heavy equipment / energy / petroleum products / strip-mining operations / hot water flotation technology / law degree / road construction contractor / nearby processing facilities / sands mining site / transportation route / energy resource / energy resources / strip mining / mine site / fur trader / transportation / investor / owned subsidiary / equipment manufacturer / natural gas / plant site / net buyer / test equipment / oil / mining / wild gas / transportation system / /
MusicGroup
Alaska / the Pacific Ocean / Great Lakes / /
NaturalFeature
Athabasca river / Great Slave Lake / Pacific Ocean / Lake Athabasca / East Coast / Parliament Hill / Cold Lake / Wizard Lake / Lake Ontario / Clearwater river / Great Lakes / Hay River / Arctic coast / /
Organization
Senate committee / Energy and Utilities Board / McGill University / federal government’s Wartime Oil Administration / University of Alberta / Other government / Department of Mining and Metallurgy / Gas Conservation Board / Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries / Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh / GSC / BY EARLE GRAY CHAPTER / Alberta government / United States Army / Ontario government / Wartime Oil Administration / Research Council of Alberta / Alberta Research Council / federal government / Department of Mines / National Energy Board / Ells’ party / /
Person
George Dunlap / George Dawson / Alexander Mackenzie / Richard George / Mackenzie Rivers / Max W. Ball / Bonnie Glen / John Howard Pew / Clair Peden / S.M. Blair / George Simpson / Harold Rea / Kenneth W. Vollman / Metis / Barry Glen Ferguson / Peter Pond / Hammerstein / Karl Adolf Clark / Sidney Clarke Ells / Simon Fraser / Robert Bell / R.C. Fitzsimmons / John Edgar Pew / Max Ball / Lloyd R. Champion / David Thompson / J. Howard Pew / Henry Marshall Tory / Jack Pew / Pierre Berton / Desmond Morton / G. Christian Hoffmann / /
Position
manager of sales / road construction contractor / geologist / petroleum engineer / chemist / executive vicepresident / special consultant / co-operative / first chairman / mayor / president / fur trader / financier / head / Historian / engineer / advocate / undisputed captain / president and CEO / exploration and production vice-president / assistant / Chairman / director / 41-year-old petroleum engineer / road construction contractor and former mayor / /
Product
Alberta / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Quebec / California / Ontario / Alberta / Texas / Pennsylvania / Alaska / /
Region
East Coast / Middle East / Northern Alberta / Western Canada / Eastern United States / /
A history of the oil sands Excerpt from The Great Canadian Oil Patch: the petroleum era from bith to peak. Edmonton: June Warren Publishing Ltd., 2005. © JuneWarren Publishing