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Born in Cuba to missionary parents, David Finch is a historical consultant living in Calgary. With more than twenty years of consulting experience, David is also the author of several books on the oil industry, including Hell’s Half Acre, and histories of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geologists, and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen. He is a regular contributor to The Calgary Herald and Alberta Oil: The Magazine. David received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedicated Investigation and Professional Scholarship in the Study of Canadian Petroleum History from the Petroleum History Society of Calgary in 1999.