The early industry

Question 1

Aboriginal people in Western Canada sometimes sealed their canoes with a
mixture of spruce gum and the tar-like residues from oil seeps and ?
deposits.

Answer 1

oilsands

Question 2

In September 1714, Hudson’s Bay Company fur trader ??
recorded in his journal at Fort York (in what is now ?) that Indians told
him of a “? ?” far inland where “there is a certain gum or pitch that runs
down the river in such abundance that they cannot land but at certain places.”
Five years later, another fur trader on the western shore of Hudson’s Bay,
? ?, recorded that a Cree named ? had brought him a
sample “of that gum or pitch that flows out of the banks of the river.”

Answer 2

James Knight

Manitoba

great river

Henry Kelsey

Wa-Pa-Sun

Question 3

Thus, the first word of the West’s petroleum resources reached Europeans more than
years before any of them set foot in the territory that would become Alberta.

Answer 3

35

Question 4

Since the earliest recorded history, there have been accounts of crude oil and
natural gas seeping to the Earth’s ?

Answer 4

surface.

Question 5

The oil was used to caulk ? and
, grease and dress the ? of people and animals. Until
the refining process was developed in the 1850s, oil was not commonly used
as fuel because of its ? fumes.

Answer 5

boats
buildings

wheels
wounds

foul-smelling