Victims of Geology
Don Gillmor’s unhappy fictional hero rides the boom and bust cycles of the oil patch November 2015
The oil patch is full of colourful characters. Calgary recently lost one of them: James Carl (J.C.) Anderson, a founding baron of the industry. Born in Nebraska and schooled in Texas, J.C. packed all the clichés along with him when he arrived in Alberta in the 1960s—the big heart, the big boots and the big…