Fonds F1931 - Frederick C. Williams fonds

Frederick C. Williams, Jr.,[ca. 1880s-after 1963], was born in Wales and came to Canada in 1909. His family operated a ranch near Gleichen, Alberta. After the 1914 Turner Valley oil discovery he briefly became a roughneck. He studied geology and after graduating in 1917 did some work in Turner Valley. From about 1920 to 1926 he worked in Oklahoma and Arkansas, USA, but returned to Alberta in the oil boom of the late 1920s and worked in the petroleum industry. He was also an inventor of geophysical gadgets. The entire Williams family moved to British Columbia in the late 1920s. He and his wife, Clara Crum, retired to Burnaby, British Columbia.