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On February 13, 1947 Imperial Oil drillers discovered a huge oil field which opened up the region to tremendous oil exploration and petroleum discoveries.
This discovery heralded the shift of Alberta’s seventy-year-old agricultural economy to a resource-based economy.
All production, which had been in decline, expanded dramatically and the Edmonton area became a petrochemical distribution center. This iconic photograph of Leduc No. 1 is one of the most famous photographs in Alberta’s history. |
