Posted AT 7:33 AM EDT on 07/05/08
A petroleum pedigree of world significance?
The sour scent of oil and the creak and wail of an old pumping system.
History literally assaults the senses in Southwestern Ontario's Lambton County, where the petroleum industry tracks its pedigree back a century and a half.
It was there in the summer of 1858 that wagon maker James Miller Williams began to haul crude out of the bush, refine it into lighting oil and lubricating grease, and sell it. (A symposium of Canadian and U.S. oil officials opens today in Petrolia, Ont.
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