The Patrick family scrapbook

In 2018, Lelands auction house sold a bunch of items from Craig Patrick’s collection. There were lots of interesting things, but to me, one item had everything topped.

Titled the Patrick Family Scrapbook, it was described as “A hulking tome dedicated to the preservation of memories from the Patrick family.” It was started in 1931 and “covers the entire century of the Patricks’ legacy.”

Included were “hundreds of news clippings … as well as original photos, real photo postcards and other family mementos and ephemera. Some very early and one of a kind items from the first family of hockey can be found in this treasure trove.”

Unfortunately, there was only the lone photo of the scrapbook seen here and no images of the interior so it’s hard to gauge exactly what it might have contained, but I regret not finding out about it until a year and a half after the auction. Especially given the sale price: $600 US, the equivalent of a little over $1,000 Cdn today. That seems like a steal. Some of the real photo postcards alone might normally fetch that much.

I have no idea who bought the scrapbook or where it is today. But presumably it is the same item mentioned in the Montreal Gazette of May 16, 1991: “Craig Patrick often thumbs through a scrapbook his great grandmother kept, a reminder of who and what the Patricks are.”

Updated Feb. 11, 2025 to add the Montreal Gazette reference.