![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1850 Oille had erected a “large and extensive Furnace and Machine Shop,” known as George N. Oille’s Machine Shop and Foundry, where he was employing 30 workers in June 1856. As a consequence of the concentration of industry encouraged by the opening of the Welland Canal, St Catharines had developed into the major centre for the flour-milling industry in the Niagara peninsula and was becoming a hub of shipping. He apparently had a “natural genius for mechanics” and was entirely self-taught, “never even having served a brief apprenticeship.” He may have worked at the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company, a foundry for steamboats at Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), before arriving in St Catharines some time in 1847. in March 1817 in Pelham Township, Upper Canada, eldest of eight children of George Nicholas Oille and Elizabeth Decker d. 28 March 1883 at St Catharines, Ont.ĭetails concerning George Nicholas Oille’s early life and education are few. OILLE (Oill), GEORGE NICHOLAS, machinist, manufacturer, and businessman b. ![]()
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