Hard Oil!

Hard Oil!

#How the Canadians Discovered Oil


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0h 29m 1980 HD

The story of the early Canadian oil industry from its start in Petrolia and Oil Springs, Ontario, from about 1850 to 1900. Dramatic re-creations blend with archival photographs and diaries to tell the rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of a boom that went bust.


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