1932:   About this time B/A introduced Frost Cop Anti-Freeze.

1933:    Due to the depression, B/A determined that it was necessary to reduce the wages of most employees, however, not one employee was laid off.

1934:    B/A built Canada's first absorption plant at Longview Alberta, to extract natural gasoline from the wet gas (a mixture of natural gas and gasoline) produced at the Turner Valley Wells. B/A also built a 50 mile pipeline from Cut Bank Montana, to the Coutts Alberta refinery, to supply it with crude oil. In this same year, B/A purchased the Bell Refining Company in Calgary Alberta, the Coutts Alberta refinery, from the Northwest Stellarene Company, and the Moose Jaw Refinery, from the Sterling Oil Company.

The Bell Refining Company in Calgary, Alberta.

The Coutts Refinery in Edmonton, Alberta.

The Moose Jaw Refinery in Saskatchewan.

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