Finding Women in Alberta’s Energy History

Written By Energy Stories Lab

This piece is the second in a series of blogs about the Canadian Energy Museum, a small museum situated in the town of Devon, Alberta that is facing imminent closure due to the loss of funding.

In this essay, Dr Sabrina Perić wants to suggest that the CEM is an important collection from which to not only interrogate our conventional view of gender in the oil industry, but also to render visible some of the most omitted actors in Alberta’s industrial history: women. In what follows, she explores a few sources in the CEM collection that centre women’s experiences and reveal their critical role in enabling oil extraction. To read the full article on NiCHE website, click here!

The July 1954 cover or The Roughneck magazine, featuring Miss Roughneck 1954. Used with permission of the CEM.


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The Energy Stories Lab is collaborative and transdisciplinary, combining ethnography with new forms of art and visualization, including augmented reality (AR), 3D object making, collective mapping and GIS. We highly value collaborative community-based digital storytelling methods, such as PhotoVoice, VideoVoice and also novel approaches to oral and life history.

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