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Oil Flows as Manitoba Opens First Provincial Pipeline
January 17 marks the start of oil flow in Manitoba with the opening of the province’s first oil field pipeline. A ceremony at California Standard Provincial Battery No. 212 saw J. G. Cowan, deputy minister of Mines and Natural Resources, open a valve to initiate production in the $250,000 project attended by oil company executives and local officials at the Williams home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virden
Manitoba
eMerals
California
N. R. Williams
J. G. Cowan
Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Northern Development Company
Virden- Daly
Northern Development Co. Ltd
D. J. Reid
Don Brandt
Edmonton
Lou MacCulloch
Jack Trowell
California Standard Oil Company