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PATTULLO, Thomas Dufferin, 1873-1956. Prince Rupert,
Victoria; politician.
Originals, 1892-1956, 10.7 m; microfilm [neg.], 1892-1956,
16 mm, 16 reels [A01796-A01811]; microfilm [neg.], 1892-
1956, 35 mm, 5 reels [A01959-A01963]
Private and official correspondence, speeches, accounts,
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports, memoranda and
miscellaneous items.
Received from Mrs. Lillian Pattullo.
The text of a radio speech delivered in Prince Rupert 19
February 1941 was presented by UBC Library in 2008 (Box 65,
File 14).
Finding aid: file list and descriptive list.
Subject Headings
Alaska Highway
British Columbia - Politics and government
Federal-provincial relations (Canada)
Liberal Party (British Columbia)
Pacific Great Eastern Railway
Prince Rupert (B.C.)
Provincial Party of British Columbia
Unemployed - Work relief
University of British Columbia - Buildings and lands
Yukon Territory
Secondary Entries
Bennett, Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount, 1870-1947
Cromie, Robert James, 1887-1936
Ferris, John Wallace de Beque, 1878-1970
Gillis, John Joseph Alban, 1881-1965
Gray, Arthur Wellesley, 1876-1944
Hamber, Eric Werge, 1879-1960
Hart, John, 1879-1957
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950
Knox, William John, 1878-1967
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 1841-1919
Macdonald, Malcolm Archibald, 1875-1941
McGeer, Gerald Grattan, 1888-1947
McKenzie, Ian H.
MacLean, John Duncan, 1873-1948
Manson, Alexander Malcolm, 1883-1964
Moodie, Stanley F.M., 1891-1964
Murray, George Matheson, 1889-1961
Oliver, John, 1856-1927
Pearson, George Sharratt, 1880-1966
Weir, George Moir, 1885-1949
Woodward, Charles, 1853-1937
Woodward, William Culham, 1885-1957
Detailed Finding Aid
MS-0003
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Originals 1892-1956 10.67 m
Microfilm [neg.] 1892-1956 16 reels 16mm [A01796-
A01811]
Microfilm [neg.] 1892-1956 5 reels 35mm [A01959-
A01963]
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was born in Woodstock, Ontario on
19 January 1873, the son of George Robson and Mary [Rounds]
Pattullo. He completed high school in Woodstock, studied at
the University of Toronto, and after serving for a time on
the staff of the Woodstock Sentinel, edited by his father,
he took up the editorship of the Galt Reformer in 1896. In
the summer of 1897 the Honourable Clifford Sifton, Minister
of the Interior, appointed a commissioner and staff to
administer the Yukon Territory. Pattullo assumed the
position of secretary to the commissioner, Major J.M. Walsh.
In April 1899, he became chief clerk in the Office of the
Gold Commissioner. In November 1902, he left the service of
the Gold Commissioner's Office. Until 1908, he operated a
brokerage and insurance business in partnership with W.G.
Radford in Dawson City. For a time, he was a member of the
Dawson City Council. In 1908, he moved his family to Prince
Rupert, B.C. where he opened a new office for his business.
In 1910, he was elected alderman, and then in 1913, mayor of
Prince Rupert. In the provincial general election of 1916,
he ran as a Liberal candidate and was elected Member of the
Legislative Assembly for Prince Rupert. On 30 November
1916, he was sworn in as Minister of Lands in the
administration of H.C. Brewster, a position that he held
under succeeding Liberal administrations until 20 August
1928. After the defeat of the Liberal government headed by
John Duncan MacLean in August 1928, Pattullo assumed the
leadership of the Liberal party and the role of Leader of
the Opposition in the Legislature. In the general election
of 1933, he led the Liberal party to victory, and on 15
November 1933 became Premier and Minister of Railways. On 5
April 1937, Pattullo was made King's Counsel, although he
had no formal training as a lawyer. He was granted an
honorary law degree by the University of British Columbia in
1937, and also assumed the position of Attorney-General.
Pattullo remained Premier until 9 December 1941. Though
personally successful in Prince Rupert in the election of
1941, Pattullo did not carry his party to a majority. He
tried and failed to form a government, and refused to join a
coalition government. Defeated in the general election of
1945, he retired from politics. In 1899, Pattullo married
Lillian [Reidemaster] Miles of Toledo, Ohio. They had one
daughter, Lillian Doris. Pattullo died on 29 March 1956.
The papers consist of 84 document boxes [volumes 1-84] of
private and official correspondence, inward and outward,
speeches, accounts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, reports,
memoranda and miscellaneous items. Among the papers is
correspondence inward and outward of John Oliver and John
Duncan MacLean relating to Liberal party affairs.
The Pattullo papers divide into two series. Series I [vol.
1-61] contain papers related to private and public
activities of Pattullo from 1892-1956, but contains only
five volumes [54-58] of papers related to the years 1933-
1941 when Pattullo was Premier of British Columbia.
Pattullo's filing system, based on subject categories, has
been maintained. Papers within each file are arranged in
chronological order. A few files contain papers for more
than one year. For instance, a file relating to one
insurance policy might cover the years 1929-1933. All such
files have been placed in the volume for the earliest year.
A list of the dates, form and subject of each file is given
in the finding aid below.
Series II [vol. 62-84] contains papers related to Pattullo's
tenure as Premier. Material within files is in
chronological order. Most of letter analysis is given
unless the entire file relates to one subject. In Series II
it is not possible, as it is with Series I, conveniently to
begin and progress through the papers year by year because
the whole body of papers 1933-1941 is filed exclusively on a
subject basis, hence more: than one year's correspondence
may be in any one file. The filing system is that devised
by the Premier's Office. Files are: classified as "C" -
"Confidential [vols. 62-65], "D" - departmental [vols. 66-
67], "F" - federal [vols. 68-71] and "G" - general [vols. 72-
73]. Volumes 74-76 contain alphabetical files. Volumes 77-
84 contain newspaper clippings related to the years 1933-
1941.
Most of the pamphlets from the Pattullo papers have been
removed and catalogued in the British Columbia Archives
Library. Many of the remaining pamphlets are duplicates.
Photographs transferred to Visual Records accession 98201-92
and 98202-92.
Restriction: Researchers are requested to use the microfilm
for conservation reasons. [reels A-01796-A01811, A01959-
A01963]. Files containing oversize material were filmed at
a later date and are on reels A01959-A01963.
Related records may be found in MS-0968 and MS-1188.
Mrs. Lillian Pattullo, of Victoria, B.C., presented the
papers to the Provincial Archives. The text of a radio
speech delivered on 19 Feb 1941 in Prince Rupert was
presented by UBC Library in 2008 (box 65, file 14).
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