Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons appointed to inquire into the Claims of the Allied Indian Tribes of British Columbia: Proceedings, Reports and the Evidence (Ottawa, 1927)

Read 10 Oct 2026 in the scan’s OCR text. Two passages name Pattullo, then Minister of Lands:

• The Supplementary List, July 1923 (pp. 65-66). Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, reported that he saw Premier Oliver on 30 July 1923 to urge more land for the bands (the “Supplementary List of Reserves”): “The Hon. Mr. Patullo was present during part of the interview… Mr. Patullo promised on behalf of his Government to have it carefully examined by Mr. MacKenzie, Grazing Commissioner, and Chief Inspector Ditchburn, but he did not give any assurance that any of the additional applications would be granted.” The next day the cabinet declined to send anyone to Scott’s conference with the Allied Tribes: “any conference with the Indians should be solely with the representatives of that [Dominion] Government.”
• The Penticton cut-off (pp. 184-85). W. E. Ditchburn on the cut-off of “over 14,000 acres” from the Penticton reserve: “The matter was taken up with the Minister of Lands, the Hon. Mr. Pattullo, and he put his engineers on that land to see if it was possible to bring water in there from Trout Creek… it was not economically feasible to put water on that land for irrigation purposes, and consequently it was dropped.”

The committee rejected the Allied Tribes’ claim to aboriginal title; British Columbia declined to appear (Premier Oliver’s telegram of 17 March 1927: “this Government relies on Section 109 of B.N.A. Act and upon paragraphs ten and thirteen of ‘Terms of Union’ and will not be represented”). See other-bc-oic-911-1923-indian-reserves.