In for the Long Haul Fairbank Family of Oil Springs Has Been Producing Oil Longer Than Any Other in the World

摘要

The Fairbank family has been pumping crude longer than any other family in history. John Henry Fairbank—a 29-year-old American who had left his wife and children on a farm in Niagara Falls, Ont.—had come to Oil Springs, Ont, in what was then western Canada for a surveying job in the late 1850s. In a classic case of serendipity, one thing led to another and Fairbank would go on to become Canada's biggest oil producer.