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Quiet Peace River oilman Lee Alward’s unlikely $2 million fortune
A reserved pioneer from near Grande Prairie, Lee Alward pursued oil in the Peace River country. From barefoot homesteading to a blistering chase of northern gas fields, he built a fortune of about $2,000,000 by he later gave most of it away. He drilled from a map to 76 sections in the Fort St. John gas field and sold to a Vancouver firm. He shared most earnings with northern friends, while remaining modest and unknown locally.
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Peace River
Peace Country
Horatio Alger
Lee Alward
British Columbia
Fort St. John
B.C
Westcoast Transmission
Petroleum EF
Alward
Grande Prairie
New Brunswick
Sexsmith
Edmonton
Turnner Valley
North America
Monkman Pass