James Murton, Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007)

Seen 12 Oct 2026 only through the Internet Archive's search of the text of its lending copy, which returns the printed words without the page; so no page numbers. The study of the province's land settlement schemes after the First World War, with chapters on the soldier settlements ("Stump farms," pp. 73-108) and Sumas ("Creating order at Sumas," pp. 109-135).

• The board's author: "Duff Pattullo, who had originally conceived of the idea of the Land Settlement Board"; he "was not one to sit idly by, even when a matter lay outside the bounds of his official authority (as did the Ministry of Agriculture's Land Settlement Board)."
• Sumas: "In 1917, Minister of Lands Duff Pattullo suggested to E.D. Barrow, Minister of Agriculture, that the LSB could take over as Sumas Dyking Commissioners." Later, of "the 10,000 acres reclaimed at Sumas, only 1,063 acres had been sold."
• The South Okanagan: the diversion dam was "known as the Pattullo Dam"; opposition critics said the residents "were more likely to say 'damn Pattullo!'", and Pattullo proposed a brass plaque on it "so that everyone would know who was responsible."

See Duff Pattullo, 22nd Premier of British Columbia: what did he get right, and what did he get wrong?.