what year did alberta experience the oil boom
Oil prices soared and adventurers flooded into the province in a frenzied hunt to strike it rich. In 1973, a worldwide oil crisis ushered in an Alberta oil boom. (Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa) For geologist Jim Gray, these were the glory days in Alberta when the pioneer spirit was alive and well.Lets drill that well.Lets take that land.verybody wanted to be in a big building. Everybody wanted to have a corporate airplane. Young people with two or three or four years experience were getting together with some other friends and starting their own little oil and gas company.. But the frenzied greed of the Alberta oil boom would take its toll.