Wikipedia, "Duff Pattullo"

Encyclopedia article on Thomas Dufferin “Duff” Pattullo (1873-1956), 22nd Premier of British Columbia, read 10 Oct 2026. It draws on Robin Fisher, Duff Pattullo of British Columbia (University of Toronto Press, 1991); Hal Guest, “The Political Apprenticeship of Thomas Dufferin Pattullo,” BC Studies 58 (1983), pp. 55-68, for the Yukon years; Margaret A. Ormsby, “T. Dufferin Pattullo and the Little New Deal,” Canadian Historical Review 43:4 (1962), pp. 277-297; Patricia E. Roy, “Educating the East,” BC Studies 18 (1973); and George M. Abbott, “Duff Pattullo and the Coalition Controversy of 1941,” BC Studies.

What it gives for the family:

• His birth and parents: born 19 Jan 1873 at Woodstock, Ontario, to George Robson Pattullo (1845-1922) and Mary Ann “Minnie” Rounds; grandson of Halkett Pattullo (1809-c. 1855), from Midlothian.
• His father: ran the Woodstock Sentinel, was chief Liberal organizer for Ontario from 1880, and Registrar of Deeds for Oxford County from 1886 until his death in 1922. His uncle Andrew (1850-1903): the Sentinel-Review, member for Oxford North, first president of the Ontario Good Roads Association.
• His brothers: James Burleigh Pattullo, who studied at Osgoode Hall, was Crown prosecutor and King’s Counsel in the Yukon, then a Vancouver barrister and paymaster of the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders in the First World War; and George, the Saturday Evening Post writer.
• His life: the University of Toronto; a bank clerk; the Woodstock Sentinel and the Galt Reformer; secretary to Major James Morrow Walsh, Commissioner of the Yukon, from September 1897; the Chilkoot Pass, the capsizing on Lake Bennett, the winter at Big Salmon and Dawson in May 1898; acting assistant Gold Commissioner; the Yukon Sun (1903); Dawson city council (January 1904); honorary consul for Sweden and Norway; Prince Rupert from 1908, its first council (1910) and mayor; member for Prince Rupert from 1916 and Minister of Lands; Liberal leader from 1928; premier from 15 Nov 1933 to Dec 1941; defeated as an independent Liberal in 1945; died at Victoria on 30 Mar 1956, aged 83; buried at Royal Oak Burial Park.
• His wife and daughter: Lillian Reidemeister; one daughter, Lillian Doris (later Collison, 1905-1989). No marriage date is given.
• Named for him: the Pattullo Bridge (opened 15 Nov 1937; closed 6 Feb 2026, replaced by the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge), the Pattullo Range, Mount Pattullo, the Pattullo Glaciers and Pattullo Park in Prince Rupert.

T. D. Pattullo was the son of George Robson Pattullo, a brother of Mary (Pattullo) Short, and so a first cousin of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood.

Checked against Fisher (10-11 Oct 2026). Fisher’s own pages (book-fisher-1991-duff-pattullo) differ from the article in three places: J. J. Freeman drowned at an ice jam a few miles below the Big Salmon River on 18 November 1897, not when a boat capsized on Lake Bennett in early November; the words found for Ogilvie’s view of Duff are “Walsh’s pimp” (Fisher p. 51, Guest p. 56), and for his drinking Andrew Pattullo’s “drinking binges” (Fisher p. 67), while “drinking and rebellious spirit” has not been found in either; and Fisher spells Lillian’s maiden name “Riedemiester,” giving the marriage as 30 November 1899, at Dawson. The article’s “too much sympathy,” attributed to Fisher, is not in Fisher’s account of the meeting of 20 June 1938 (pp. 306-307); its known source is Dorothy Steeves (book-steeves-1960-compassionate-rebel).