Daniel John Grant, "T. D. Pattullo's Northern Empire: The Alaska Highway and the Proposed Annexation of the Yukon Territory, 1933-1941" (MA thesis, University of Victoria, 1980)

The preface (pp. i-xxx) read from the scan, 10 Oct 2026; supervised by Patricia E. Roy. It draws on the Pattullo Papers and quotes:

• Mackenzie King’s diary, 25 April 1934: “I thought he was shockingly egotistical, conceited beyond words and very Bennett-like in his mentality… I greatly fear—and the more so as I saw him drinking cocktails and whiskey tonight—that he will ‘blow up’ one of these days and lose his head altogether.”
• Bruce Hutchison, Vancouver Province, 3 November 1933: “His power in the Liberal Party is not the power of the glad hand, but of sheer force of character… he has always been boss without question.”
• Pattullo to the Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 March 1939: “Even if it sounds egotistical, I tell you this: what I say goes in this province.”
• Grant’s own portrait: “Pattullo not only governed, he ruled”; “the youngest looking sixty-five year old in the Province”; clothes “from the finest New York haberdashers”; he wrote to George VI “direct, and in the first person”; and “In negotiations with the United States over the Alaska highway he flew to Hyde Park to have a personal ‘chat’ with ‘our mutual friend F.D.R.’,” citing a letter to his brother George of 7 June 1938. Mackenzie King stayed at the Pattullo home on Beach Drive, Oak Bay.

See thomas-pattullo-1873 and pattullo-bloody-sunday.