OT Who knew? Oil Springs, ON, struck first oil.

[Robatoy]

Suck it, you Kanuckistan haters!!!

Who knew? Oil Springs, Ont., struck first oil

THE CANADIAN PRESS A tiny pocket of southwestern Ontario will be bubbling with pride this weekend as residents celebrate a claim to fame that fuelled a civilization. The village of Oil Springs, southeast of Sarnia, is the site of North America's first commercial oil well ­ dug by hand roughly 150 years ago tomorrow. The discovery touched off the modern petroleum age, a full year before American Edwin Drake began drilling in Pennsylvania. This weekend, people living throughout the Oil Heritage District of Lambton County will converge on the village to both commemorate and reflect on the anniversary. A parade will march to the Oil Museum of Canada, where festivities will include a play depicting the history of the oil industry, declarations by local MPs and the Oil Baron's Ball. Local historians say they hope the bash will help raise the area's profile and boost its bid to be designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.

[Kevin]

Well, that's all very impressive, however, if this is a point of national pride, perhaps they should check a map because Oil Springs is in southEASTERN, Ontario. I'd hate for all of that celebratory Labatts and back bacon to go to waste because people were driving aimlessly around the wrong part of the Province! :-)

[Han]

Kevin wrote in news:c2acb0ee-ac4c-4a43-864b- [e-mail]:

Chercher la femme!!

Or is that the wrong province??

[Robatoy]

Speaking of aimless....

clicky on Lambton County.. there you will find Oil Springs... in SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO. I live 30 KM from there...

Do you have a Tates compass? Maybe that explains why you're lost. After all, he who has a Tates, is lost.

[LRod]

Where is Thunder Bay?

[Kevin]

aimless....

> Now clicky on Lambton County.. there you will find Oil Springs... in

Interesting! Let's put a north-south line running right through the middle of Ontario. Good old Lambton county sure seems to be east of that line. Perhaps Oil Springs is in the southwestern part of the southeastern part of Ontario?

Molsonly yours,

Kevin

[David G. Nagel]

Actually the village is in the WESTERN part of the Niagara Peninsula which is in EASTERN Ontario.

Dave N

[Kevin]

Well since Thunder Bay is both north and west of Oil Springs, I guess it must be in Northwestwest Ontario.

[Robatoy]

Noooo, you big silly, put that Molson down..and pay attention: Oil Springs is in the Western part of Southern Ontario.

Han knows how that kinda thing works, North Brabant, is in the Southern part of The Netherlands. South Dakota is in the Northern US?

You may now continue drinking that Molson....stuff...'cuz beer it ain't.

[Robatoy]

Northern Ontario..on the West side.

[Robatoy]

Right, David... *pats him on the head*... now Google for South Western Ontario's cities..see what you get, and where it gets you.

[Kevin]

Ahhh, gotcha. It's in Westsouth Ontario. All is now clear.

Muskokaly yours,

Kevin

[Tom Watson]

Mebbe he dint correct for declination wif his Tates an he's goin mag north instead a true north.

Regards, Tom.

Thos. J. Watson - Cabinetmaker

[Morris Dovey]

Umm, lemeesee (bouncing globe off wall), that would be north of Sydney, south of Melbourne, and left at Iceland, right?

(AIUI, it's only with the Regur-Je model of those compasses that all is truly lost.)

[Robatoy]

Noooooooooooooooo, because if you go as far West as you can in Ontario, then you hit the Manitoba border. THEN, if you go South..you end up near Thunderinglardjesus Bay. However...if you go South first...and then West, you end up in Windsor, which is about an hour away from Oil Springs and a helluvalot closer than Thunderingfarking Bay!

Now, Cornwall.. THAT is Eastern Ontario, boy is it ever...

[Robatoy]

You hafta stay away from True North... That's a scary place. Because if you go due South, from True North, and then go due West for a few hundred kms, then turn due North...you're back where you started...nu-uh..weird shit happens up there...

Mag North, is closer to New Foundland.. in some ways even scarier.

[FrozenNorth]

Hey Rob, good buddy, this is getting silly, as a fellow resident of Southern Ontario, and as Bob knows we all know each other, Oil Springs is definitely in the South Western part of Southern Ontario aka Southern Ontario, for the less anal. ;-)

[Robatoy]

I know where I live, most of the time. *G* But for those who believe Wiki..here you go:

even has a picture!

[Kevin]

Many nights during my youth I DID end up in Windsor. Wonderful ballet....

Kevin

[PDQ]

Kevin, my lad, you are reading your map bassackwards.