In 2018, Lelands auction house sold a book full of news clippings, photos, postcards, and ephemera to do with the Patricks.

At least two actors have played members of the Patrick family in TV and film.

In 2023, I asked ChatGPT if Lester Patrick ever lived in Nelson, BC. Its answer was surprising, to say the least.

After leaving Nelson in 1911, Lester Patrick returned just once, in 1948, to referee an exhibition hockey game.

Lester Patrick could have become president of the NHL in 1943, but he didn’t want to.

I’m only aware of two brief bits of surviving footage of Lester Patrick and three recordings of his voice.

Frank and Lester Patrick coached against each other 14 times in the NHL. Who won most often?

While Lester is best remembered for his heroics in the 1928 Stanley Cup final, it wasn’t the first time he’d played in net.

One member of the Patrick family earned a perfect score in the Vancouver Better Baby Contest in 1918.

The trophy presented for the Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship has not been seen since 1917.

While Frank Patrick helped bring many innovations to hockey, he only filed two patents.

Members of the Patrick family and their various enterprises appeared on postcards, many of which command high prices today.

Joseph Patrick was not the first member of his family to live in British Columbia

Joe Patrick moved to BC in 1907 to establish a sawmill, whose sale would ultimately help establish the PCHA. But he had been there before.

A charming anecdote about Lester Patrick in West Kootenay relates how his hockey reputation did not always precede him.

You can visit a half dozen sites related to the Patricks in Nelson and the Slocan Valley, including homes, a church, and sawmill ruins.

Did the sawmill and timber limits that belonged to the Patricks go for $340,000, $350,000, $440,000, or $1 million?

In 2017, the BC government installed a stop of interest sign at the Crescent Valley Beach, where the Patrick Lumber Co. sawmill once stood.

Was it the Pacific Coast Hockey Association or the Patrick Coast Hockey Association?

Wikipedia will tell you the New Westminster Royals of the PCHA never played a game in their own city. Not so.