Allan Irving, "The Doctors versus the Expert: Harry Morris Cassidy and the British Columbia Health Insurance Dispute of the 1930s," BC Studies 78 (Summer 1988)

Read 10 Oct 2026. The Pattullo government’s Health Insurance Act (1936) and its abandonment: “By 19 February [1937] Pattullo had ordered Weir to postpone indefinitely the implementation of the scheme,” under the doctors’ and business opposition; a plebiscite followed, and when he was later warned that the Liberals would lose Vancouver without it, “Pattullo was not convinced.” See pattullo-bloody-sunday.