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19-651: Oil Springs may refer to: Canada [ edit ] Oil Springs, Ontario , a village in Lambton County, Ontario United States [ edit ] Oil Springs, Kentucky , an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky Oil Springs Reservation , an Indian reservation of the Seneca tribe in New York state [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

38-717: A change of -0.2% from its 2016 population of 648 . With a land area of 8.14 km (3.14 sq mi), it had a population density of 79.5/km (205.9/sq mi) in 2021. Canada Southern Railway The railway was leased to the Michigan Central Railroad (MCR) for 99 years in 1883; in 1929 it was subleased to the New York Central Railroad (NYC). Its successors Penn Central (formed 1968) and Conrail (formed 1976) later exercised control before being sold to Canadian National Railway / Canadian Pacific Railway in 1985. The line

57-774: A railway line between Fort Erie and Sandwich ( Windsor ), with a branch line to Amherstburg . A second branch line was authorized in 1869 between St. Thomas and Sombra the following year. Other significant subsequent legislation included: There was an attempt in 1883 to amalgamate the CSR with the Credit Valley Railway , which was dropped when the CVR opted to merge with the Ontario and Quebec Railway instead. CSR's headquarters were located in St. Thomas, Ontario . The site

76-622: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oil Springs, Ontario Oil Springs is a village in Lambton County , Ontario , Canada, located along Former Provincial Highway 21 south of Oil City . The village, an enclave within Enniskillen Township , is the site of North America's first commercial oil well . It is home to the Oil Museum of Canada . Before

95-507: The New York Central Railroad (NYC) was able to lease the CSR to another Vanderbilt railroad company, the Michigan Central Railroad (MCR), on a 21-year renewable term. Vanderbilt, who owned all three companies, ensured that each one operated independently, through its own autonomous president and board of directors. In 1929, MCR subleased CSR to NYC, its parent company. The company was originally authorized to construct

114-539: The New York Central Railroad . The CSR was never completely controlled by the New York Central (later part of Penn Central ) or the Michigan Central, as the two together held only about 107,000 of the 150,000 shares outstanding, and the rest were publicly held. The shareholders had received dividends in every year from 1887, and an extraordinary dividend in 1976 triggered a legal dispute that

133-465: The CSR, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad , Northern Pacific Railroad , Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and New York and Oswego Midland Railroad were also affected. The CSR's banker, Kenyon, Cox & Co. (of which Drew was general partner) failed, and its bonds were subsequently protested , although some observers felt that the move was unnecessary. CSR subsequently became insolvent, as it

152-459: The original oil rigs on William's property and by 1974, the last receiving station of Imperial Oil closed. In 2008, the 150th anniversary of Williams' discovery, Canada Post issued a stamp commemorating this first commercial oil well, featuring portraits of Charles Tripp and Williams. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Oil Springs had a population of 647 living in 267 of its 283 total private dwellings,

171-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oil_Springs&oldid=1233053621 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

190-555: The successful Fairbank Oil Company that is now the oldest petroleum company in the world. He also invented the jerker line, a method used to pump oil to the surface from multiple wells using a shared steam engine . Jerker lines are still used to pump oil in Oil Springs today. On January 16, 1862, John Shaw using a springboard to chip through rock, created Canada's first oil gusher (located on Gypsie Flats Road). It shot oil from over 60 metres (200 ft) below ground to above

209-450: The treetops at a rate of 3000 barrels per day. A year later, a plank road was built from Oil Springs to Wyoming rail station. In 1865, the place separated from Enniskillen Township and was incorporated as a village. A year later, Bernard King struck oil at Petrolia , 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Oil Springs. Petrolia quickly replaced Oil Springs as Canada's oil capital, leaving Oil Springs almost abandoned. In 1881, more oil

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228-483: The village was formed, the indigenous people already knew about the gum beds and used the sticky oil to waterproof their canoes. The place, originally called Black Creek , became the site of North America's first commercial oil well when asphalt producer James Miller Williams set out to dig a water well in September 1858 and found free oil instead. Williams' discovery triggered North America's first oil rush and

247-421: The village's name was changed to Oil Springs that same year. Within a few years, Oil Springs was a bustling town with four thousand residents and in its peak days boasted paved roads, horse-drawn buses and street lamps. John Henry Fairbank , a surveyor turned oil man who came to Oil Springs in 1861, bought some property and despite incurring debts and suffering family tragedies, Fairbank struck it rich, founding

266-607: Was based on Italianate architecture and is the only known train station in Canada to embody this style. The station was the design of Canadian architect Edgar Berryman (1839-1905). A large car shop, located in the yard, facilitated the manufacture of cars and allowed repairs to be made to locomotives. Steam locomotives were also manufactured for CSR in the car shop, beginning in 1882 and closed sometime after 1905. Types of locomotives made included: Initially all locomotives were built for use by CASO, but some ended their career with

285-504: Was chosen because St Thomas was roughly equal-distance between Windsor and Fort Erie, Ontario and the city offered a $ 25,000 bonus to the railroad company as an incentive to build within city limits. CSR's main building, the Canada Southern Railway Station , included a passenger station and dining room on the ground floor with the railway's head offices on the upper floor. The extremely long, narrow building

304-484: Was discovered at a deeper level, resulting in another oil boom for Oil Springs. Two oil pipelines were built to Petrolia, and in 1886, a spur line of the Canada Southern Railway connected the village to Oil City (operating until 1960). In 1914, Charles Fairbank, son of John Henry, found a gas gusher in Oil Springs that was deemed the biggest gusher in Canada. In the 1930s, a fire destroyed all of

323-803: Was not resolved until 1983. On April 30, 1985, the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway jointly purchased the former CASO from Conrail in order to acquire the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel under the Detroit River and the Michigan Central Railway Bridge at Niagara Falls . Much of the CASO has been downgraded, abandoned or removed by CN and CP over the years. Operations through Niagara Falls (and over

342-613: Was originally conceived by Kenyon Cox (brother of Jacob Dolson Cox , Governor of Ohio ), Daniel Drew , Sidney Dillon and John F. Tracy to connect with the Wabash Railroad and establish a railway network extending from Lake Erie to the Mississippi River . The Panic of 1873 was responsible for the failure of several large railroads in North America, together with their financial backers. In addition to

361-471: Was unable to redeem the bonds. Within two years, it was taken over by the railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt at essentially no cost other than taking on the guarantee of them. When Cornelius died in 1877, his son, William Henry Vanderbilt , became head of the Vanderbilt railroad empire. The younger Vanderbilt took steps to separate the various railroad properties he controlled. On 1 January 1883,

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