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- 1938-1980 (Creation)
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1.5 cm of textual records. -- 3 photographs
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Franklin Keller Spragins, 1914-1978, was born in Natchez, Missssippi, USA and came to southern Alberta in 1942 to look for oil for Carter Oil. He transferred to Imperial Oil in 1949. He married Eleanor "Nell" McGregor of Calgary in 1950, and they had four children, Robert, Dan, Carol and Howard. They lived in Calgary, Regina and Edmonton. In 1965 Frank became president of Syncrude Canada and in 1975 was made chairman of the board. He retired in 1978 and was inducted into the Alberta Business Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame and Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Gifts of Nell and Robert Spragins, 1980-2012.
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The fonds consists of article by Frank on the Athabasca Tar Sands (1978), speech (1977), biographical articles (1978-1980), newspaper articles and copy of address by Jan Reimer re Syncrude; and photographs of Frank (1938, 1942, 1976).
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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Digital content is available: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S3Q6H97
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There are interviews with Nell and Robert Spragins in the Tom Kirkham Oral History Project at Glenbow (RCT-310 and RCT-311).
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Thursday, July 02, 2015