Canada’s First Oil Boom: Kerosene Lighting in Canada, 1846-1920
with Ruth Sandwell, OISE, University of Toronto
Sunday, 28 May 2023, 12:30pm EDT
Public Energy History talk courtesy of CHESS: Canadian History of the Environment Summer School 2023
Weldon Library Community Room 128, Western University, London, Ontario

Feature Image: A Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) Inuk mother cooks bannock in a frying pan over a kerosene lamp fire. Credit: Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs / Library and Archives Canada / e006609505.
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