McColl Frontenac Oil Company Limited - Canada 1958

Beautiful certificate from the McColl Frontenac Oil Company Limited issued no later than 1958. This historic document was printed Canadian Banknote Compnay and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an indian chief. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 50 years old.


Certificate Vignette

McColl-Anderson Oil Company was formed in 1873 in Toronto, Ontario, and consisted of a refinery and a lubricating oil and grease facility. Sometime before 1897 the name was shortened to McColl Bros. In 1927 it merged with Frontenac Oil Refineries to become McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. By then it had operations coast-to-coast. Around this time the Texas Corporation began to buy shares in McColl-Frontenac and within a few years gained controlling interest in the company. It further strengthened its interests by having McColl-Frontenac buy the Texas Company of Canada which had operations in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

The McColl-Frontenac name and its Red Indian products were in use until 1941 when they were replaced by the Texaco name and its Sky Chief products.