In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explores the ways in which the industry provided a common cultural identification that helped Petrolia change from a rough shanty-town of disreputable land speculators and "wildcatters" into an orderly, "civilized" Victorian community. Departing from traditional historiography focused on the economic role of resource development, "Canada's Victorian Oil Town" incorporates an understanding of the connections between science and technology, nation and imperialism, and cultural nuances of community-building. Burr looks at the cultural importance of place and how collective identity was nurtured in the community. She also illustrates how the image of Petrolia as Canada's Victorian Oil Town has been used since the 1970s to develop a thriving tourist industry in the region. Interdisciplinary in scope, "Canada's Victorian Oil Town" draws from the history of imperialism, science, resource development, local history, gender studies, and cultural geography.
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"What an exciting story! I thoroughly enjoyed the exegesis of the relationship between natural science, ideas of social progress, and industrial capital - a story that allowed allusions to 'witchers,' 'dousers,' and 'oil-smellers.' It's a good read." Brian Osborne, Queen's University "Burr has explored Petrolia's rich history and hitherto unexplored cultural and technological dimensions and taken into account many of the complexities, struggles, and tensions that made it the town it is today." Kerry Badgley, National Archives, Ottawa
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Christina Burr is the author of Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto and associate professor, history, University of Windsor.
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foreign drillers, white drillers, quick flippers, pioneer industrial village, local oil producers, local drillers, anticlinal theory, oil smeller, gum beds, foreign drilling, local oil industry, refined sociability, oil speculators, global oil industry, oil springs, concession ten, settlement duties, oil developers, oil fever, hard oil, first oil boom, land dealers, oil exchange, illuminating oil, oil town Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Victoria Hall, Upper Canada, Petrolia Discovery, Imperial Oil, Dominion Day, Bear Creek, World War, New York, Sarnia Observer, Lambton County, Black Creek, Standard Oil, Charles Tripp, United States, Canada West, Crown Andrew, North America, Old Girls, Old Home Week, Petrolia Advertiser, Sketches of Creation, East Indies, Edna Fairbank, Great Western Railway, Washington Lodge New!
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foreign drillers, white drillers, quick flippers, pioneer industrial village, local oil producers, local drillers, anticlinal theory, oil smeller, gum beds, foreign drilling, local oil industry, refined sociability, oil speculators, global oil industry, oil springs, concession ten, settlement duties, oil developers, oil fever, hard oil, first oil boom, land dealers, oil exchange, illuminating oil, oil town Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Victoria Hall, Upper Canada, Petrolia Discovery, Imperial Oil, Dominion Day, Bear Creek, World War, New York, Sarnia Observer, Lambton County, Black Creek, Standard Oil, Charles Tripp, United States, Canada West, Crown Andrew, North America, Old Girls, Old Home Week, Petrolia Advertiser, Sketches of Creation, East Indies, Edna Fairbank, Great Western Railway, Washington Lodge New!
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- Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt on 5 pages
- Victorian Science in Context by Bernard Lightman on 4 pages
- The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal on 4 pages
- The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by David Spurr on 4 pages
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock on 4 pages
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