<
 
 
 
 
×
>
hide You are viewing an archived web page collected at the request of University of Alberta using Archive-It. This page was captured on 16:33:11 Dec 08, 2010, and is part of the HCF Alberta Online Encyclopedia collection. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page. Loading media information
Heritage Community Foundation Presents
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Canadian Petroleum Heritage
titlebar Home | About | Contact Us | Search | Sitemap | Sponsors spacer
Industry
Technology
People
hertiage community foundation, ckua, albertasource

Lauder Nowers

In the beginning, Lauder Nowers had no idea the hardships he would face as a roughneck in the oil patch. Later in life, he would fondly describe his earliest work there as "…a dirty, rotten, filthy job; and very, very hard…"

Despite the rude shock, Nowers found both the risk and the pay to be compelling reason to stay on. He was compensated handsomely for working with the dangerous and highly volatile Nitroglycerine used to "blow" wells in search of oil.

In the meantime, he boarded at the infamous Black Diamond Hotel, for a rate of $40 per month.

Nowers worked his way up from that position to Personnel Manager for the Western Producer Department with both Esso and Imperial Oil.

 

quicklinks
quicklinks
filler
bottom

Albertasource.ca | Contact Us | Partnerships
            For more on the oil industry in Alberta, visit Peel’s Prairie Provinces.
Copyright © Heritage Communty Foundation All Rights Reserved