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- [ca. 1920-2000] (Creation)
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16 cm of textual records. -- ca. 600 photographs. -- ca. 20 negatives. -- 4 slides. -- 1 audio cassette
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Biographical history
Charles Stalnaker, 1891-1979, was born in West Virginia. Though he had some formal education he preferred the life afforded to him by the oil industry because it was not as regimented as other businesses. Charlie Stalnaker learned by doing. He started his career in the West Virginia oil fields as a tool dresser before becoming a driller. After returning from service as part of the American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War, he returned to his career in the oil patch where he soon became an oil well “shooter” for the Independent Torpedo Company in 1922. Stalnaker worked all throughout the United States, and he helped established Independent Torpedo’s magazine and factory in Shelby, Montana, where he became the only source of nitroglycerine available to service the fledgling Alberta oil industry based out of Turner Valley.
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Archival history
Part of this fonds was on loan by the Stalnaker family to the Canadian Museum of History. It was donated to Glenbow in 2017.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Charles B. Stalnaker and Stalnaker family, 1996-2017.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence; brochures and photographs of personal life and career in the petroleum industry; interview with Charles B. Stalnaker, Myrna Stalnaker De Milt and Ron D. McPhillips by David Finch.
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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No finding aid
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Digital content is available: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S33BGK6
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018