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Petrolia is a town in Ontario, Canada, near Sarnia. The town, an enclave within Enniskillen Township, is billed as “Canada’s Victorian Oil Town” and is often credited with starting the Oil industry in North America.
Lambton Central Collegiate & Vocational Institute (LCCVI) is the only high school located in Petrolia.
In 1857 James Miller Williams of Hamilton, Ontario began distilling some of the “tar” lying around Oil Springs (located a few kilometers south from Petrolia), after buying the property rights from Charles Nelson Tripp. In July or August 1858 he struck an oil deposit in Oil Springs while digging a shallow well, sparking the oil drilling industry. In 2008, the 150th anniversary of the discovery, Canada Post issued a stamp commemorating this first commercial oil well, featuring portraits of Charles Tripp and Williams. However, these early wells resulted in a large amount of wastage from gushers, estimated at 5 million barrels (790,000 m) of oil in 1862 alone.
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