LATEST NEWSPlease renew your membership for 2021! We need your memberships but have been unable to see you due to event cancellations. Memberships help us apply for grants and cover the utility costs at Sarah Wray Heritage Centre. Please show your support and renew if you can. Drop your fee in the mail to 4334 Irvines Landing Rd., Garden Bay, V0N1S1 or in the drop-box on the back porch of Sarah Wray Hall. See membership details and form. Five year memberships are now available! If you're wondering if your membership has expired, please email info@penderharbourheritage.ca. Local COVID 19 Information
Please see the Pender Harbour Area Residents Association site. All in-person events are cancelled until further notice. Sarah Wray Hall cannot be booked at this time.
Cedar Canoe Raffle 2020 - postponed to 2021
Every year we raffle off the boat building class's Cedar Strip Canoe as a fundraiser for our society. Tickets are $10 each and are available at our booth at April Tools, May Day, and Pender Harbour Days. If you can't make it to one of those dates and would like to buy a ticket, please get in touch. The draw is on the last day of Pender Harbour Days. 
Photo credit: Paola Stewart
[above] August 2019: Rick Crook of Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society congratulates Shannon Reid who won the cedar strip canoe at Pender Harbour Days. The canoe was built by Rick's boat building students earlier in the year. Proceeds will be used to support the Society's maritime projects. Next year may be your turn to win!
[below] Rick Crook showing off the freshly-made 2019 boat building class canoe at April Tools 2019. 
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Harbour HeritageView our Digital Collection! Full of photos, documents, and other local information. We're adding more all the time so check back often! New from the Archives
Photos from the Brynildsen family album have recently been added. View the photos here. 
Brynildsen family home, right, later Garden Bay Hotel. PHLHS 008.011
New from the Archives
Photos from the Pender Harbour Choir have recently been added to the online photo collection. View the photos here. 
Members of the Pender Harbour Choir, 2013. PHLHS 009.5.1
Sarah Wray Hall The former Irvines Landing school has been renovated and renamed Sarah Wray Hall. To book the hall, see our availability calendar. Any Yearbooks?
Thanks to everyone who donated PH Secondary School yearbooks! We're still missing these graduation years: 1965, 1973 to 77, 1989, 1995, 2002, 04, 05, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20. If you can donate any of these years, please Get In Touch! Local Authors
In this award-winning book, Pender Harbour is presented through the eyes of early women settlers. Produced by the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, all proceeds go towards preserving Pender Harbour's history. More information 
Ray Phillips writes about Jervis Inlet history in his 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. Thanks Ray! Get your copy at EarthFair Store. While you're there, pick up Ray's Little Green Valley, about the Kleindale area of Pender Harbour. 
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