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Shale Gas at Saint-Pierre-les-BecquetsLong before anyone talked of shale gas, a contract of 5 July 1907 between the Boston Gas and Oil Co. and Octave Dion opened lot 105 to exploration, but the drilling of the day did not give the hoped-for results.
Shale GasA contract dated 5 July 1907 between the Boston Gas and Oil Co and Octave Dion granted gas and oil rights over lot 105 at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets: exploration here was nothing new.
TimberNapoleon’s 1806 blockade turned England toward Canadian timber: in the seigneurie of Lévrard-Becquet, sawmills on the rivière aux Orignaux, local dealers, and a contract dated 1830.- seriesBaskets for the TomatoesTons of tomatoes brought to market in the region each year meant containers were needed: a filmed segment on the factory making the baskets used to carry and sell them.
- Iron minesIn 1874 Georges Benson Hall bought the iron-mining rights over three lots at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, at four cents a barrel; no blast furnace was ever built there and the rights lapsed from the 1890s.
Other articles on related subjects
- First the Tomatoes Had to Be Scalded
- Jean-Baptiste Lelaidier
- Peeling with a Spoon
- Canning and Seaming
- Taking in the tomatoes at the cannery
- The Tomato: Its History
- The Tomaterie (Tomato Cannery)
- Ketchup
- Cooling the Cans, Then Labelling Them
- The Work of the Tomato Peelers
- Repairs to the buildings; heating the autoclaves
- Secretary of the Tomato Cannery
- Sterilizing the cans and making the ketchup
- A Tomato Worker, Cécile Spénard-Poisson