Oil and gas

Oil wells, refineries and the petroleum industry.

Historic places
14Historic places
Built
1858–1947Built
Provinces and territories
5Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 4
  • Provincial 6
  • Municipal 4
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Alberta8
  • New Brunswick2
  • Ontario2
  • British Columbia1
  • Prince Edward Island1

Towns with the most

  • near Devon 2

Built over time

The most were built in the 1920s: 2 of the 7 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1858First Commercial Oil Field National Historic Site of CanadaOil Springs, Ontario
  2. 1901First Oil Well in Western Canada National Historic SiteWaterton Lakes National Park of Canada, Alberta
  3. 1920Bitumount Sitenear Fort McMurray, Alberta

The register gives no construction date for 7 of these places.

All 14 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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