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In this talk, author and oil historian, Gary May, offers the first glimpse into his latest book Crude Genius, a biography of William Henry McGarvey – the most successful of Lambton County’s International Drillers. Who was McGarvey? What drove him to...
In this talk, author and oil historian, Gary May, offers the first glimpse into his latest book Crude Genius, a biography of William Henry McGarvey – the most successful of Lambton County’s International Drillers. Who was McGarvey? What drove him to build an immense petroleum empire stretching from the Austrian Empire to Russia, based on exploration and drilling, refining, and equipment manufacturing? Why did the British government risk an international incident to seek his advice? And what was it about that advice that might have altered the course of World War I? Join Gary as he pulls back the curtain on his research to reveal never-before-seen McGarvey family photos, and tantalizing new facts about one of Canada’s early international business tycoons.
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