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From Wikipedia:

"The McColl-Frontenac Oil Company was an oil company based in Canada. It was created in 1927 as a result of a merger between two companies, McColl Brothers, founded by John McColl in 1873, and Frontenac Oil Refineries. Shares in the new company were acquired by the Texas Company, and by 1941 it had acquired a majority ownership position of McColl-Frontenac. At that time, the oil company was rebranded as Texaco. McColl-Frontenac was known for its branding of its oil and products as "Red Indian". In 1989, Texaco Canada was acquired by Imperial Oil."



Hard to find images of Red Indian stations...

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Portage and Main - Winnipeg MB according to the source...

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Location unknown...
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Saskatoon SK
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Toronto
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One pump named for each of the Dionne Quintuplets. (Apparently, an uncle owned the Red Indian station and had the pumps painted to honor the quints and/or benefit from the media frenzy. [S)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_quintuplets

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Yea ah...give me 3 dollars worth of Yvonne[cl
 
All from Vancouver BC

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Another batch from Vancouver...

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Blackburn again...

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Los Angeles area...

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Vancouver again...


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they were really proud of their businesses and buildings then. Nowadays it just build cheap and uniform and get the cheapest shop staff you can get , or none at all...... too bad.
 
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I am no expert but, is that Richfield the same as Atlantic Richfield, which became ARCO, owned by BP? Also, is the Canadian B-A (British American) a pre British Petroleum? (BP)
 
A couple hours north from here. (Location and source are obvious. :))


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