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Canada - Cities Service Limited fonds
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CA PCA Acc2608
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Copied 1973 (Reproduction)
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1924-1944 (Creation)
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- Canada - Cities Service Limited
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.065 m of textual records
17 photographs
2 maps
17 photographs
2 maps
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Canada - Cities Service Limited
Administrative history
Canada - Cities Service Limited, an oil exploration company based out of Calgary, Alberta, operated a test well in the Hillsborough Bay, eight miles south of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in the 1940's. In 1924, a survey conducted by Hugh MacKay of Sapula, Oklahoma, indicated a geological structure in Hillsborough Bay that could be favorable for the accumulation of oil. In 1942, Cities Service Limited joined with Socony Vacuum Oil Company and, in the following year, they began drilling for oil in the Hillsborough Bay. The operations were conducted by the Island Development Company, a subsidiary of Socony Vacuum Oil Company, and the drilling contractors were the Loffland Bros. Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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The fonds consists of newspaper clippings from 1925 to 1944, as well as group photographs taken in 1943, relating to the drilling of oil in the Hillsborough Bay. Also included is a survey conducted by Hugh MacKay in 1924 concerning oil and gas possibilities on PEI, weekly sample description reports by the Island Development Company Exploration from 1943 to 1944, and short histories regarding the search for oil on PEI.
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- English
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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER
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- Canada - Cities Service Limited (Creator)
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- English