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Pouring Nitroglycerine into Torpedo Shell; Preparating to Shoot an Oil Well, Maritime Oilfields Limited, Moncton, New Brunswick
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photograph: Pouring Nitroglycerine into Torpedo Shell; Preparating to Shoot an Oil Well, Maritime Oilfields Limited, Moncton, New Brunswick, c. 1920. Collection of the New Brunswick Museum (X11743). Oil was discovered near Moncton in 1859. The Stoney Creek oil and gas field was discovered 50 years later in 1909. Nitroglycerine Being Poured into Torpedo Shell in Preparation to Shoot an Oil Well, Maritime Oilfields Limited, Moncton, New Brunswick.
