James Burleigh Pattullo (1871 - 1930)

J. B. Pattullo was brother to Duff Pattullo and their father was for many years secretary and general agent for the Ontario Liberal Party. J.B. Pattullo was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1892 and he established a law firm in Toronto with H.E. Ridley. He was admitted to the territorial bar in October 1898 and in September, he and Ridley transferred their practice to the Yukon. Pattullo maintained a Dawson practice for the next twelve years and also staked and sold claims and even was a party in a hydraulic application. He was only moderately successful in his mining endeavours but the law firm was one of the busiest in the territory and was considered the best on mining law. He was able to work with the government and with the many American mining population by not using his political connections to government and the Liberal party. One of his clients was E. C. Allen of the Klondike Nugget. Clement joined the firm in February 1899 but departed for Ottawa only four months later. Pattullo and Ridley paid him off but continued to use his name in the firm during his absence.¹⁾

In January 1903, Pattullo was asked to act temporarily as the Crown prosecutor and he accepted as his American mining clients were leaving the territory. More men left in 1904 due to the stampede to the Tanana strike. He asked his father to pull some strings and became the permanent Crown prosecutor until his departure from the north in October 1910. Ridley left the firm and the Yukon in the fall of 1905. Pattullo was admitted to the British Columbia bar in 1911 and he practiced for five years in Vancouver before enlisting with the Canadian Army to become the paymaster with the 72nd Overseas Battalion.²⁾