LATEST NEWS

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Annual General Meeting
April 12, 2019, 1 pm
Sarah Wray Hall, 4334 Irvines Landing Road

Updates on our 2018 events and activities, as well as a preview of what's in store for the future.  We will also discuss our many volunteer opportunities for people of all skill levels. See you there!

2019 memberships are due!
It's that time of year again! To renew your membership, drop your fee in the mail (4334 Irvines Landing Rd., Garden Bay, V0N1S1), in the drop-box on the back porch of Sarah Wray Hall, or at the next event you attend. See membership details and form.
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If you're wondering if your membership has expired, please email info@penderharbourheritage.ca.

Natural Dye Workshop - silk

March 31, 2019, 10 am - 4 pm
Sarah Wray Hall

Join Coast Salish artist Jessica Silvey to learn the basics of fabric preparation and processing plant materials for dye pots using dye plants from the grocery store and the local forest. 

You'll learn basic dye terminology and concepts essential to understanding natural dye processes.

More details and registration

Natural Dye Workshop - Wool

April 27 - 28, 2019, 10 am - 4 pm
Sarah Wray Hall

Join Coast Salish artist Jessica Silvey for a two-day Dye and Weave workshop! Workshop participants will learn to naturally dye wool yarns for their own projects, and use a table loom to learn the basic twine and twill techniques used in Coast Salish Weaving.

Participants will dye two different batches of wool and take home a table loom at the end of the workshop. All materials and instruction included in cost.

More details and registration

Drawing Skills: March 4-20, 2019

Yippee! Art class with Shelley Stunell begins March 4 and runs Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00 - 3:00 pm at Sarah Wray Hall. Learn drawing skills in all grey tonal values with the details improving your eyesight!

More information and to register

Intro to Cedar Strip Canoe Building
Join boatbuilding instructor Rick Crook of Oyster Bay Boats
​and build a cedar strip canoe in our workshop
​TUESDAY evenings from January - March 2019.
Class is full! Watch for the canoe raffle starting in April!

From the Archives
Photos from the 1960's and 1970's have recently been added. Please browse the archives and go to Advanced Search then Catalog Number and enter 2012.2 to view the additions.

Can you identify anyone ​in these photos?
(Click the image to view the larger size in our database, and then "send us feedback" on the photo page to identify people, places, and things.)

Martin Anderson (left) and Eddy Reid arm wrestling at a 1970's May Day. PHLHS 2012.2.32

Heritage Signs in Pender Harbour

Heritage Panels currently in development by the PH Living Heritage Society will also be integrated into the trail signage project.

One of our ongoing projects includes marking the trails and pathways of Pender Harbour with directional and interpretive signage. Initiated by the Pender Harbour Hikers, the signage project is funded by a grant from the Sunshine Coast Community Forest Legacy Fund made through the Pender Harbour Advisory Council. Continue reading...

Pender Harbour's Maritime History

Alethea Brooks in a rowboat, circa 1945.

Pender Harbour’s protected waters are fringed by an intricate shoreline. The names of the many coves and inlets hint of a colourful history: Whiskey Slough, Gunboat Narrows, Hospital Bay. In this unique place, pioneers lived at the water’s edge, always mindful of the great ocean that gave their home its life and meaning.

Until a road connected Pender Harbour to Sechelt in 1936, travel was mainly by water. Boats of all kinds visited harbour shores – dugout canoes, fishing boats, steamships, mission boats, forestry boats, school boat ferries, work boats, pleasure boats. Read more about Pender Harbour's Maritime Heritage.

​Book Sarah Wray
​Heritage Hall
​for your next event!
Capacity of 50 people, full kitchen, 2 bathrooms, wheelchair accessible, tables, chairs available. For details, see our availability calendar.

​Become a member!
If you care about preserving Pender Harbour's unique history and making it available for others to learn about and enjoy, please help by becoming a member of the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society. More information

Pender Harbour history
​in a book

Women of Pender Harbour:
​Their Voices, Their History
In this award-winning hardcover book, Pender Harbour is presented through the eyes of early women settlers. The historical narrative is augmented with over 200 historical photographs, biographical profiles, timeline and genealogies. Produced by the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, all proceeds go towards preserving Pender Harbour's history.

The book is available for purchase at locations in BC and by mail order.
More information

Download the 
Community Resource Directory (PDF)

Now available!
Local author Ray Phillips writes about the history of Jervis Inlet in his new book "The Royal Fjord: Memories of Jervis Inlet", released by Harbour Publishing.

​Author royalties for this book are being donated to the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society.

The book is available locally at the EarthFair Store: 604.883.9006. While you're there, pick up Ray's other book Little Green Valley, which is all about the Kleindale area of Pender Harbour.