Join us as a speaker from the Oil Museum presents the tale of the arrival of railroads in Lambton County and how they helped spur the development and growth of the oil industry.
Many things changed in 1858 with the arrival of the Grand Trunk Railroad and the first commercial oil well dug by James Miller Williams. Starting production in Oil Springs, Ontario, the Black Gold Rush started attracting men from all over to seek their fortunes in the booming oil industry. Problems arose due to lack of infrastructure on how to get this valuable product out of the swamps of Lambton. In this talk we will look at how the booming oil industry and railroads are intrinsically linked in Lambton County spurring development, from the building of the private Petrolia line to the St Clair Tunnel to the USA.
