Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), N.W.T., on the Mackenzie River, where Imperial discovered oil in 1920.
1921
Imperial's René and Vic Junker's monoplanes, which made the first flights to the Northwest Territories in 1921 and enabled the company to chop the travelling time to remote locations from weeks to days.
1922
Ronald W. MacKinnon, an Imperial geologist, in Norman Wells. During the winter of 1922-1923, MacKinnon travelled by dogsled to Edmonton, a trip that took three months. He became superintendent of the Norman Wells refinery in 1932.
1923
By 1923, urban service stations had become sophisticated facilities.
1924
Reginald Stratford, a research chemist who was hired in 1924 by Imperial to found the Canadian petroleum industry's first research department.
1925
An Imperial-sponsored "3 Star" hockey club celebrates a victory. Imperial's 3 Star gasoline -- introduced in 1931 -- not only gave its name to amateur hockey clubs but inspired the naming of three stars on Hockey Night in Canada.
1926
An oil well in Turner Valley, which experienced a second short-lived oil boom during the 1920s.
1927
Refuelling a plane with "Premier" gasoline.
1928
Charles Lindberg in Quebec City, where his plane was refuelled with Imperial "Aeroplane Spirits."
1929
The Ioco refinery, which was built on Burrard Inlet, B.C., near Vancouver in 1914.
