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RAre Vintage Imperial Refineries Motor Oil Can Coin Bank Indian Graphics
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Rare VINTAGE IMPERIAL REFINERIES MOTOR OIL CAN COIN BANK INDIAN COPPER BONUS SAVINGS.Imperial Refineries Save Cash composite and tin coin bank
Indian Graphics on Label
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Vintage Motor Oil Can, Imperial Refineries Coin Bank, Native Copper Bonus Savings can. Bank is in Excellent condition. Displays nicely. Can features a Native smoking a peace pipe and Native american dream catcher. See Pictures. Measures just shy of 3" tall.
Not a Reproduction.
HA 739 081320
1880
Sixteen southwestern-Ontario refiners form The Imperial Oil Company in London, Ontario, to find, produce and distribute petroleum products in Canada.
1883
Imperial operations move to Petrolia, Ontario, after lightning strikes the London refinery.
1875 – 1898
Imperial Oil Company delivery wagon in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1893
Twenty-three branch offices across from Halifax to Victoria give Imperial a presence across Canada. Pictured: Imperial office in Halifax, Nova Scotia below the Caledonia Hotel.
1898
In need of expansion capital, majority interest of Imperial sold to the Standard Oil group in the United States. ExxonMobil, a descendent of Standard Oil, still owns 69.6 percent of our shares.
1899
Imperial takes over Standard’s Canadian assets and moves its head office and operations to Sarnia, Ontario.
1907
Imperial opens Canada's first service station in Vancouver, British Columbia, where gasoline was dispensed by a garden hose.
Watch our Esso television commercial showing historical images of service stations, from the first one in 1907 through the 1950s.
1913
Race car driver Bob Burman after setting new Canadian record (1 mile in 50 and 4/5th seconds) using polarine and Premier gasoline in Vancouver, British Columbia.
1914
Imperial forms a subsidiary, the International Petroleum Company, Limited, to search for oil in South America.
Imperial builds a refinery at Burrard Inlet, east of Vancouver. Pictured is the Refinery baseball team in 1918/1919.
1916
Imperial builds refineries in Regina and Montreal. Pictured: Aerial view of the Montreal Refinery.
1918
Imperial becomes the first company in Canada to adopt a system of joint industrial councils, an innovative approach to labour-management relations. Pictured: Inaugural meeting of the first Joint Industrial Council in Sarnia, Ontario.
Imperial builds a refinery at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
1920
Imperial discovers oil at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), N.W.T., on the Mackenzie River.
1923
Imperial begins operations at the Calgary refinery.
1924
Imperial hires Dr. Reginald Stratford to found the company, and industry’s, first research department.
1928
Charles Lindbergh buying Imperial Oil gasoline for his plane in Quebec City, Quebec.
1936
Imperial sponsors Hockey Night in Canada radio broadcasts for the first time. Pictured: Father and son listening to Hockey Night in Canada radio broadcast.
By 1950, three million Canadians listened to Esso hockey broadcasts each week – and in 1952, we expanded our broadcast sponsorship to include television.
Watch the Hockey Night in Canada final scores.
Learn more about history with hockey.
1942
Imperial joins the Canadian and U.S. governments in Canol, a project to provide fuel for the U.S. war effort in the northern Pacific.
1947
Imperial discovers oil at Leduc, marking the beginning of Western Canada’s great oil development.
1955
Imperial establishes a chemical product department in Sarnia.
1955
Imperial’s first research centre in western Canada opens in Calgary.
1964
Imperial begins an experimental program to extract bitumen from the oil sands in Cold Lake, Alberta.
1975
Imperial builds Strathcona refinery to replace older refineries in Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg and Calgary.
1989
Imperial purchases Texaco Canada Inc. At the time, it was the second-largest corporate acquisition in the nation’s history.
2004
Imperial moves its head office to Calgary from Toronto.
2007
Imperial and ExxonMobil Canada acquire a multi-year exploration license, covering more than 500,000 acres, to explore for hydrocarbons in the Beaufort Sea.
2009
Imperial announces its decision to fund the first phase of the Kearl oil sands project, a new mining development northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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