Hard Oil!
Hard Oil!

Hard Oil!

How the Canadians Discovered Oil

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1980
0h 29m
Documentary

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.

Production

ONF | NFB

Cast

Allan McFee

Allan McFee

Self - Narrator (voice)

Max Ferguson

Max Ferguson

Self - Narrator (voice)

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