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Oil Flows as Manitoba Opens First Provincial Pipeline
January day marks start of oil flowing through Manitoba’s first field pipeline. Officials and residents gather at California Standard Provincial Battery No. 12 to watch J. G. Cowan deputy minister of Mines and Natural Resources turn the valve launching the $750,000 project. Portraits capture the moment and attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virdem
Manitoba
Oil Company
California
N. R. Williams
J. G. Cowan
Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Northern Development Company
Virden- Daly
Northern Development Co. Ltd
Virden
J. Reid
Don Brandt
Edmonton
Lou MacCulloch
Jack Trowell
California Standard Oil Company