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Canadian-American-British backing of Western-Canada's fast-growing oil industry. Like Petroleum Clubs in American oil centres, the Calgary club's object is social and educational. It should help to get oilmen better acquainted with the other, something not too easy at present when it is considered that the oil fraternity is several hundred strong, and is steadily increasing in number.
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Renfrew members. The
Renfrew's membership was around 700, making the new club's membership approximately 1,000. Upon the merger, the Calgary Petroleum Club became Western Canada's largest gentlemen's club. The new club initially operated out of the old Renfrew Club, which used the second floor of the Motor Car Supply Building at 321 6 Avenue SW.
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to design a new clubhouse. The new building was one storey high; a nine-storey office tower addition was intended to be built above the club but was never constructed. Harry
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to launch the club formally. That evening the members elected the first board and approved club bylaws. Members elected to the first board were John H. Bevel (Canadian Gulf Oil), J. Grant Spratt (Anglo-Canadian Oil), S. F. Heard (Royalite Oil), Tom L. Brook (British
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Petroleum Club merged with the older Renfrew Club into a new club under the name of the Calgary Petroleum Club. The Renfrew Club had been incorporated in August 1929 as a businessmen's club. At the time of the merger the Petroleum had around 400 members, 126 of whom were also
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The "Calgary
Petroleum Club" was formally launched on Friday evening when more than 100 members of the oil fraternity met at the Palliser hotel to approve the application for incorporation, bylaws, and to elect the club's first board of governors. The club in Canada's oil capital has a distinctly
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In the early morning of Friday, 13 May 2005, an arsonist set a fire in the club causing roughly $ 400,000 of damage. The club underwent major renovations following the fire. After the closure of the
Calgary Professional Club in 1999 and the
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granted the club its coat of arms on 5 November 1991. The symbolism includes oil drops, a
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