Abraham Gesner
1797 – 1864
Photographs of Monument
Chipman Corner Kings County Nova Scotia
Located on the east side of Middle Dyke Road, about 500m south from Church Street
GPS location: 45°05’56″N 64°28’35″W
Photograph taken 6 October 2002
Photograph taken 19 December 2002
Map showing the location of the Abraham Gesner monument
Chipman Corner, Kings County, Nova Scotia
Photograph taken 19 December 2002
In the first decade of the 21st century,
world-wide production and consumption of
kerosene exceeded 130,000,000,000 litres annually.
(On average, about 15,000,000 litres each hour of every day)
Abraham Gesner Digital Collections archive
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/
volume4/136-139.htm
Abraham Gesner by the Nova Scotia Museum
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fossils/finders/gesner.htm
Abraham Gesner saved more whales than Green Peace ever will by James S. Robbins
http://newscotland1398.ca/99/gesner-whales.html
How Capitalism Saved the Whales by James S. Robbins
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/how-capitalism-saved-the-whales/
Abraham Gesner, Part One: A Father of Petroleum by Hans Durstling
http://web.archive.orghttp://www.bovagems.com/eclectic/HTML/19970501_0597ABEGEN.html
Abraham Gesner, Part Two: Gunplay in the Albert County Woods by Hans Durstling
http://web.archive.orghttp://www.bovagems.com/eclectic/HTML/19970601_0697DURST.html
Abraham Gesner Petroleum History Society
http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/cdnbeginnings.html
Abraham Gesner by New Brunswick Community College, Saint John
http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/~Heritage/AlbertMines/AGesner.htm
Abraham Gesner by National Chemistry Week
http://www.cheminst.ca/ncw/articles/1999_gesner1_e.htm
Abraham Gesner St. Mark’s School
http://www.k12.nf.ca/stmarks/grassroots/1999-2000/inventors/gesner.htm
Foulis – Gesner Conflict
http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/~Heritage/AlbertMines/FGConflict.htm
Abraham Gesner by the New Brunswick Government
http://www1.gnb.ca/0007/Culture/Heritage/VMC/display-image.asp?id=107
Abraham Gesner New Brunswick Mineral Rights
http://www.gnb.ca/0078/minerals/Mineral_Rights_Introduction-e.aspx
Abraham Gesner University of New Brunswick
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/
anthropology/pdfs/gesner.pdf
