By Nona Stauffer, 1973The real story of how this company got its start in Dawson Creek begins with a man named Roger Forsyth who came to Dawson Creek in 1942 with one truck to work on the Alaska Highway. He spent his first three years working on the highway, after which he had the opportunity… Read More

Many of the inhabitants hold the belief that valuable reserves of oil occur in the Peace River country. It is evident that such beliefs held here as elsewhere are founded on hope rather than on definite evidence. [Geologically] speaking, some of the underlying formations are suitable for the accumulation of oil, and in fact, the… Read More

From the memoirs of Mr. Elmer Braden I will try to bring to my mind some early oil drilling development in the Peace River Block. This was brought about some 48 years ago by the discovery of gas seepage in the Pouce Coupe River by one of our old timers, Mr. Blaine Pierce of Rolla…. Read More

By Dorthea H. CalverleyI never felt warm since we got the gas! Don’t mistake me. Indoors I’ve never been really chilly either. In a house where the air is thermostatically controlled, circulated, humidified and filtered, that would be impossible… unless the power fails… or the gas. A neat, grey-green genie, about two feet square and… Read More

By Harry GilesThe industrial development of any country depends primarily upon availability of raw products and fuel. Provided easy and cheap means of transportation are at hand, distance from seat of manufacture is no barrier. Many in the southern coastal centres of B.C. are hoping to get natural gas – the modern fuel – from… Read More

By Mrs. Pierce, Elaine MarshallThey were long, weary days that Blaine spent riding the trapline in the fall and winter of 1941. His only companion was his staunch bay pony. Finding a good catch in one of his traps lent excitement for the young trapper with the promise of a fine pelt of wolf, coyote,… Read More

By A.C. McPhersonNote: This report is Part I of the theses submitted by Mr. A.C. McPherson, R.P.F. for his degree in Forestry. Mr. McPherson at this writing is Assistant District Forester at Kamloops. Mr. McPherson researched all available material on the development of forestry and forest fire protection in the Peace. He has ably documented… Read More

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hannam, interviewed by Mrs. Ruby Stevenson and Dorthea Calverley A group of us were reminiscing in a very informal way about the exploratory gas and oil well at Commotion Creek, B.C. in the year 1941. It got wide publicity at the Coast as “Pattullo’s Folly”, because of the “waste of money… Read More

HISTORY OF THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH PEACE   An address to the Oil and Gas Conference 2003, Dawson Creek, B.C., 30 September 2003   By Gerald Clare, President South Peace Historical Society Copyright 2003 – All Rights Reserved Good afternoon Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen When Paul Gevatkoff asked me to… Read More

Recent History – 1998By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Nov. 27, 1998Revenue from the sale of oil and gas rights remains well below what the government was raking in last year. The November sale of oil and gas rights brought $3.9 million in revenue to the province, Energy and Mines Minister Dan Miller announced Thursday…. Read More