Ontario’s historic oil industry is vying to have Oil Springs’ Fairbank Oil Properties and the Oil Museum of Canada recognized by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage site designation.

The decades-long effort has crossed another hurdle with an application in late January to have a site considered by Parks Canada for the country’s list of candidates the designation. If successful Oil Springs, the birthplace of North America’s commercial oil business, would join the pyramids of Egypt and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the list of World Heritage sites.

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