HISTORY: Families and People: P | PATTERSON

Mr. Patterson acquired District Lot 3753 as a Crown Grant in 1924, and in 1933 bought a further 160 acres as District Lot 4052 from Ian Sutherland, who had acquired it from Charles Sutherland, his father who took it as a Crown Grant in 1911. The Patterson cabin was located on the north side of Mission Creek on the downstream side of the present Three Forks Park. In 1931, the Heptons were living there with their children, Betty, Jack, Ernest and Vera. The older three were in the Joe Rich School. During a high school bush party cabin was burned down several years ago.

Patterson was a contractor in Kelowna, and built the present Anglican Cathedral.4 He was a deacon of the First Baptist Church.