We are honoured to be situated in kalpilin (Pender Harbour),
within the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the shíshálh Nation.
within the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the shíshálh Nation.
LATEST NEWSHelp! Sarah Wray Hall
needs a new roof!
NEW: Donate your refundable proceeds to Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society via GRIPS recycling!
Boatbuilding class
January - March 2022 Join boatbuilder and instructor Rick Crook of Oyster Bay Boats and learn cedar strip boatbuilding techniques at Sarah Wray Hall Wednesday evenings at 7 pm starting January 19, 2022 until mid-March. (Note: start date changed to one week later.) The class project will be to build a 16-foot cedar strip canoe. Class is limited to 6 students. More details and to register 
NEW: Self-Guided Heritage Tour
of the Pender Harbour area Take a self-guided heritage tour of historic places throughout the Pender Harbour area, including in Francis Peninsula, Madeira Park, Kleindale, and Garden Bay. Use the map on our website, or go directly to the map in Google maps.
Contact us to arrange a visit!
Rent the Sarah Wray Hall for your meeting or event To book the hall, see our availability calendar. Book your next meeting, event, or activity at the Sarah Wray Hall. With a capacity of 50 people, a full (small) kitchen, 2 bathrooms, wheelchair accessibility, internet, and tables and chairs, Sarah Wray Hall is a fantastic local meeting spot. PLEASE NOTE: Sarah Wray Hall renters are required to meet the latest COVID-19 safety requirements. Please review the current province-wide restrictions on events and gatherings before contacting us to book an event. See also BC's Restart Plan. Sarah Wray Hall, formerly Irvines Landing school, is one of the last remaining one-room schoolhouses in BC. Read more about the building's history. Hotel Lake Park Project:
Path, Dock, And Small Heritage Boat Livery By creating a small, approved dock and access path on Hotel Lake, we hope to share with local Sunshine Coast residents and visitors, on occasion during the summer months and by donation only, the historical experience of rowing or paddling one of our small collection of non-motorized heritage and replica boats. Read more about the project 
Newly-built Hubert-Evans handliner being rowed on Hotel Lake in 2015 by a boatbuilding class student.
Visit Our Shop
Check out our items available for purchase, including a limited edition print, our Women of Pender Harbour book, antique Japanese glass fishing floats, a map of Pender Harbour from 1948, postcards of local net sheds, and our Fishing Company Flags poster. All proceeds support projects of Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society.
Cedar Canoe Raffle 2020 - postponed to 2022
Every year we raffle off the boatbuilding 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. 
Rick Crook showing off the freshly-made 2019 boatbuilding class canoe at April Tools 2019. This canoe will be raffled in 2022! |
Harbour HeritageBecome a member Memberships help us apply for grants and cover the costs of Sarah Wray Heritage Centre and our online archives database. Please show your support! View membership details and form. Five year memberships are now available! Etransfer accepted! Help identify photos!
There are over 200 photos in our collection with unidentified people. If you recognize someone, please click the photo to enlarge it and send us your info by clicking "Send Us Feedback" at the top right of the record. You'll be helping us provide a more accurate record of Pender Harbour history! View unidentified people here 
Grace Sophia Brynildsen, centre, standing with two girlfriends in a garden, probably on the Brynildsen property in Garden Bay.
View our Digital Collection Full of photos, documents, and other local information. We're adding more all the time so check back often! Pender Harbour area Cemetery Listings at Find A Grave.com Forest View Cemetery Warnock Rd. & Francis Peninsula Rd. Kleindale Cemetery God's Little Acre Menacher Rd. & Sunshine Coast Hwy Local COVID 19 Information
Please see the Pender Harbour Area Residents Association site. Any Yearbooks?
Thanks to everyone who donated PH Secondary School yearbooks! We're still missing these graduation years: 1965, 1973 to 77, 1978, 1979, 1980, 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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