LATEST NEWSPender Harbour Days July 31 to August 2, 2020 has been postponed. We look forward to the time we can all congregate again. Stay safe. Sarah Wray Heritage Hall is no longer booking event and classes. Please check back after the governments allow us to mingle again. COVID 19 Information
See Pender Harbour Area Residents Association site for full local information http://www.phara.ca/covid-19-update
Sunshine Coast Regional District has good information including Emergency Operations Centre bulletins www.scrd.ca/files/File/COVID 19/2020-03-24%20SCRD%20COVID%20Bulletin%20%235.pdf POSTPONED |
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Spring 2020 Art Classes
POSTPONED Learn some creative techniques with instructor Shelley Stunell this spring and join the fun! All classes are Mondays and Wednesdays 1 - 3 pm at Sarah Wray Hall. Portraits: March 2 - 25, new or experienced. Landscapes: April 6 - 29, beginners. POSTPONED Details and Registration Art Classes are sponsored by the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society. |
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April Tools 2020CANCELLED
**No April Tools for 2020** Due to COVID-19 and the cancellation of public gatherings of greater than 250 people, April Tools 2020 will not take place. We regret not being able to bring this event to the community this year. But we have already made a plan and a prototype so we are ready for next year. See you on April 24, 2021! |
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2020 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. Note that five-year memberships are now available. See membership details and form.
If you're wondering if your membership has expired, please email info@penderharbourheritage.ca.
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. Note that five-year memberships are now available. See membership details and form.
If you're wondering if your membership has expired, please email info@penderharbourheritage.ca.
Postmistress Gail Girard Retires
Friends and clients gathered at Sarah Wray Hall on January 12, 2020 to wish Gail all the best on her retirement from Canada Post after 33 years' service. Gail has served the community of Garden Bay with professionalism, good humour and always with a smile. Thank you for your years of service, Gail!
Do you have archival material?
Do you have archival material relating to Pender Harbour? We are looking for: school yearbooks and class photos, diaries and letters, telephone directories, fishing licences and logs, photos of people or of buildings under construction. Anything that helps to tell the story of harbour history is of interest.
If you such items, please Get In Touch! and provide details so that we can evaluate suitability for the society's archives. We also accept items for scanning although original material is preferred.
Thanks for helping to save harbour history!
If you such items, please Get In Touch! and provide details so that we can evaluate suitability for the society's archives. We also accept items for scanning although original material is preferred.
Thanks for helping to save harbour history!
Cedar Canoe Raffle 2020
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.
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.
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 boatbuilding class canoe at April Tools 2019.
[below] Rick Crook showing off the freshly-made 2019 boatbuilding class canoe at April Tools 2019.
From the Archives
A collection of photos from the Horace and Hattie Williamson family has recently been added to the online photo collection. Browse the archives and go to Advanced Search then Catalog Number and enter 2018.8 to view this collection.
A collection of photos from the Horace and Hattie Williamson family has recently been added to the online photo collection. Browse the archives and go to Advanced Search then Catalog Number and enter 2018.8 to view this collection.
Horace and Hattie Williamson and friends celebrating Buccaneer Day at their log house on Beaver Island, July 1912.
PHLHS 2018.8.23
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
