Bourdon, "Barkerville's Thomas Robson Pattullo in Life and Death," BC Studies 185 (Spring 2015), pp. 49-77

Read in the research on the Ellingwood line’s wives’ families (research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Wives_Families.md, October 2026); the passages below were checked. “Pattullo was the second of nine children born to Jane (Robson) Pattullo (1809-79) and Halkett Pattullo (1810-65). Halkett’s parents emigrated from Scotland in 1820 and farmed forty hectares in Caledon, Peel County, Upper Canada, where Thomas was born. In 1855, the family moved to Blenheim Township, Oxford County. Thomas and brother William Pattullo … left to seek their fortunes on the Pacific coast in 1859, while George Robson Pattullo (1845-1922) and Andrew (1850-1903) brought prominence and influence to the family through newspaper publishing in Woodstock, Ontario. … Three sisters are referenced as well. Mary (b. 1852), the youngest, seems to have been a favourite.” Thomas’s will left “siblings Andrew and Mary two thousand dollars each.” His obituary (British Colonist, 9 Jan 1879) says he sold out his claim on Williams Creek “and took $10,000 in gold dust and bars to the Centennial” Exhibition of 1876, and names “two brothers residing in Woodstock, Ontario, G.R. and A. Pattullo.”

Read in full on 10 Oct 2026 for the pages of Thomas and William Pattullo. Beyond the passages above, it gives: the memorial album (BC Archives MS-3100) with Captain Jack Crawford’s poem “Under the Snow”; Thomas’s Cariboo career from 1861 (sixty-five claim transactions, the Heron claim’s first success in 1866-67, companies from the Heron to the Two Brothers); his politics, as a Canadian and a reformer, his “Tillicum” letters in the Woodstock Sentinel in 1872, and the Dominion Day committee of 1871; his gold exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876; his charities, among them $615 raised in 1872 for a miner with consumption; his death, the barber Wellington Delaney Moses’s diary, the obituaries in the Globe and British Colonist; his will of 1876 and the probate file (BC Archives GR-1052 will 5704, GR-1304 file 533); and Duff Pattullo’s memories of him, from Robin Fisher’s Duff Pattullo of British Columbia and the 1941 Cariboo press. William, “the faithful brother” of the poem, was at Thomas’s bedside, worked on as a part owner of the Two Brothers Company, and later moved to San Francisco.

So Mary (Pattullo) Short was a sister of George Robson Pattullo, father of T. D. “Duff” Pattullo, Premier of British Columbia. Her own marriage (Woodstock, 1879) and death (Spokane, 1932) records name her father as Halkett Pattullo (FamilySearch FMN5-RMJ, N35X-8MK; indexes, not seen here).