Born in Shanghai, China, with a South African mother and an Irish Canadian father and a twin brother, Jim, she and her family moved to British Columbia where Pat was raised in the Kootenays, where, I can hardly believe, she once dreamed of becoming a rancher.
Pat et son frère jumeau, Jim, naquirent à Shanghai, en Chine, d'une mère sud-africaine et d'un père canadien d'origine irlandaise. Sa famille déménagea ensuite en Colombie-Britannique.