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Story

Charles Warren

Map Location

Latitude: 31° 56' 21.952" N
Longitude: 49° 18' 13.37" E

Date

1902-abt1987
  • Charles Warren stands with seven local men arranged in three rows, all wearing work clothes. Warren is in the centre in the back row. The middle row is sitting on chairs and the front row is sitting cross-legged on the ground. Charles Warren and his drilling crew in Persia (modern Iran).

Charles Warren grew up in Haldimand County where he learned the drilling trade while working as a water boy on gas rigs in the area. In 1923, Charles Warren and his brother Bob signed a contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to drill for oil in Persia. Their journey to Persia took them by ship through New York City, England, France, and onto Egypt. From there, they began a long trek across the desert to Southern Persia. Although the hot, dusty land sent Bob home after a short stay, Charles remained with the company for a total of seven years, extending his last contract for a little bit so as to not arrive back home in the middle of Winter. Warren brought home a number of exotic mementoes from his time abroad: silk kimonos for his sisters, egg-shell china, Persian rugs, ebony elephants with ivory tusks, a brass bowl with a stand of wood carved into three snakes and inlaid with ivory. After his adventure in the Middle East, Warren settled back into the drilling business in Haldimand County. 

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