Download or read book Canada's Victorian Oil Town written by Christina Burr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explores the ways in which the industry provided a common cultural identification that helped Petrolia change from a rough shanty-town of disreputable land speculators and "wildcatters" into an orderly, "civilized" Victorian community.