Beatrice Hunter, an author and historian hailed for chronicling the early roughneck history of Alberta's oil fields, has died. She was a writer, a painter, an artist, she was a captain in the army," Don Hunter, Beatrice Hunter's stepson, said in an interview Friday with CBC Radio's Edmonton AM. (Leduc Energy Discovery Centre) "It was more of a human interest story rather than a history of finding oil at Leduc No. He was 11 when the gush of mud finally gave way to a spout of clear, light crude — a discovery that forever changed the course of Alberta history. "My mother had passed away and my father met (Beatrice)," Hunter recalled.

Source: CBC News April 07, 2018 12:00 UTC