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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Colonization, Culture, and the Making of Canada's Victorian Oil Town; 1 "Oil Mania": Colonial Land Policy, Land Speculators, and Settlement in Enniskillen Township, 1830s-60s; 2 "Oil Smellers" and "Professors": Science, Colonization, and the Oil Boom in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Enniskillen Township; 3 The Petrolia Discovery and the Making of an Oil Resource Community; 4 A Respectable Victorian Town: Public Space, Voluntary Associations, and the Creation of a Culture of Refined Sociability. 5 "Some Adventures of the Boys": Enniskillen Township's "Foreign Drillers," Imperialism, and Colonial Discourse6 "Canada's Victorian Oil Town": History, Public Memory, and Community; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z