BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 28, pp. 721-726 September 3o, i917 



PETEOLP]UM IN CANADA 1 



BY WILLET G. MILLER 



{Premnted before the Societtj December 2S, 191 G) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Production 721 



Ontario 722 



Erie-Huron peninsula 722 



First development 722 



Structural features 722 



Oil-bearing formations 722 



Ontario fields 723 



New Brunswick 724 



Alberta 725 



Bibliographic references 726 



Production 



Compared with the United States, Canada is but a small producer of 

 petroleum, the output of the two countries for the year 1915 being about 

 281,104,104 and 215,464 barrels respectively. In other words, the pro- 

 duction of Canada was less than one-tenth of one per cent of that of 

 the United States. Preliminary estimates for 1916 are 198, 123^ and 

 292,300,000^ barrels respectively. With the exception of a very small 

 output in Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick are the only provinces 

 that are producing petroleum in commercial quantities. A little has been 

 found in numerous places beyond the limits of the producing areas in the 

 two provinces and elsewhere in Canada. 



Owing to the comparatively small importance of the industry in Can- 

 ada, and also to the fact that information concerning the distribution and 

 modes of occurrence of petroleum in this country is in readily available 



1 This paper is one of a series composing a "Symposium on the Geology of Petroleum." 

 See this volume, p. 156. 



Manuscript received by the .Secretary of the Society March 81, 1917. 



2 Preliminary Rept. Min. Prod, Canada, 1916. Mines Branch, Ottawa, No. 449. 



3 Science, March 28, 1917, p. 290. 



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