coal oil

1. noun, N. Amer., dated, kerosene or petroleum used for lamps and heating (COD); 2. attributive; see also coal oil lamp

1.
“There was limited demand for it, but, you know, he’d bring a barrel of coal oil maybe to the store, to Rattray’s Store, and that’d do the Island for half the winter.”

“Then in the meantime, you pumped up the air on the air tank for to push the coal oil through and into the burner.”

“So what kind of lamp would that have been?”
“Oh, just a little fella like this, you know. It was gas, coal oil.”

“You had to light the light when the sun went down, and you turned the light out at sunrise, and you’d go up. And the light itself, you had two tanks. One was coal oil and one was the air tank. Everything worked under pressure, right? And you used to have a burner in it, in the centre. And there was three mantles there, three reflectors.”

“It just cost him a dollar and a quarter for lights. Five gallons of coal oil, and that was 25 cents a gallon. So that done him all winter, and it cost Pop 12 dollars or something.”

“We used to go out from the lighthouse down there and look around. It was a big thrill to walk down and go through it, eh. She was a pretty sound old place, you know, really? They had her up in the air so she didn’t dry rot or that, eh. But as I said when she lit, she was only a coal oil light, I know that, eh, with just coal oil in there.”

2.
“I think before the old kitchen fell down there was an old coal oil or a coal oil burner stove like that they had to cook on in the summertime.”

coal oil light (see quote above)