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.
EVENTS2026 Dates to Remember📅
🚣April 25, Madeira Park Gov't Dock: April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge: It's time to 🚣♂️register your team!🚣♀️ 🛶April 25 - August 9: Our 2026 Canoe Raffle for KINGFISHER starts on April 25! Tickets will be sold at April Tools, online, and at various events. 🎉May 16: See you at the 81st Annual May Day in Madeira Park. It's Mardi Gras time! 💃 🎣Opening May 23 at Sarah Wray Hall: "Early Japanese Canadian Families of Pender Harbour" exhibit. Continues most Saturdays throughout the summer 11am -3pm. (Check here for dates.) ☀️Most Saturdays throughout the summer, 11 am - 3 pm at Sarah Wray Hall: Open, exhibit "Early Japanese Canadians of Pender Harbour". Check here for Saturday openings. ⛵August 7-9: The Pender Harbour Wooden Boat Show 🚤 in Madeira Park. Visit Our Online Shop
Historic maps of Pender Harbour colourized
Find unique, local items at Sarah Wray Hall, 4334 Irvines Landing Rd in Garden Bay, or in our online shop, including historic map reprints of Pender Harbour, heritage-inspired art prints by local artists, antique glass fishing floats, cork floats, books, local fishing company flags posters, postcards, and more! 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.
SARAH WRAY HALLSarah Wray Hall
Built in 1931, the former Irvines Landing School was restored by Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society volunteers with the help of many others between 2012-2014 and renamed after local pioneer Sarah Wray. The building is one of B.C.'s last remaining one-room schoolhouses.
Rent Sarah Wray Hall
Sarah Wray Hall in Garden Bay (4334 Irvines Landing Rd.) is available to rent for your events, meetings, or classes.
At $15/hr or $150 for a full day (extra fees may apply), this historic venue is affordable for events of up to 50 people. View rental information 
An intimate wedding in 2023
SUPPORT THE SOCIETYPurchase or renew your membershipHaving a robust membership helps when we apply for grants and also helps with our day-to-day funding. Please show your support! View membership details and form. Etransfer accepted! We're Looking for Volunteers!Archives Would you enjoy cataloguing archival material in a user-friendly database system? Events How about planning events at Sarah Wray Hall eg. historical talks, coffee drop-ins, games? Or would you like to help out at April Tools, May Day, or at the Wooden Boat Show? Writing If you enjoy writing and learning about our local history, let us know. Articles are for local publications and online. Become a member of our Board Would you like to become part of our volunteer board? Interested? Send us your details!
Recycle your bottles at GRIPS
and donate to PHLHS!
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HARBOUR HISTORYView our Digital Collection Including photos, documents, and historic information. The Pender Harbour Community Club presents a tribute to Pender Harbour's fishing heritage. "Our community was built on the strength, courage, and hard work of the fishing families who called these waters home. The boats, the stories, and the generations that followed remind us where we came from — and why community still matters. This video is a tribute to them, and to the legacy that continues to shape Pender Harbour." Video compiled by Janet Anderson and Gayle Brawn and the Homecoming Gala Committee. Do you know these people?
March 23, 1985: Supporters at an early fundraising event, the tee marker and flag auction, for the new Pender Harbour Golf Course. They are in the newly constructed clubhouse. A layout of the planned course is on the wall. The people depicted are: (seated from the left) unknown, unknown, Steve Boyd, unknown; (standing) Irene Boyd.
Help us identify the unknown people in our digital collection and provide a more accurate record of Pender Harbour's history! To start, view the photo record in our collection. On the record page, click the small photo (top left left of the record) to enlarge it for easy viewing. If you recognize someone, click the "Send Us Feedback" button (top right of the record) to share your info with us. You can also view all photo records in our digital collection needing identifications. Over 460 photos! The shíshálh in kalpilin
(Pender Harbour) The shíshálh had been gathering at séxw?áwini (Garden Bay), their winter village, long before Capt. George Vancouver rowed past the harbour in 1792. They lived in longhouses, gathering with thousands from their four main tribes and other tribes, to trade, feast, dance and tell stories. They had coming-of-age rituals, performances by medicine men and month-long potlatches. In the summer they travelled up coast to fish for salmon, to hunt venison and to gather berries to dry for winter. Read more...
How to pronounce traditional names
of the Sunshine Coast
The she shashishalhem language is the traditional language spoken by the shíshálh Nation and is a Coast Salish dialect. Visit shishalh.com to learn how to pronounce various words in the she shashishalhem language, including the new highway signs, and phrases like Welcome - ?imash ?imash, and Good Morning - ?iy te kwiy kwiy. DOING RESEARCHWe offer research assistance at no charge. Questions? Contact Us! Search Local HistoryFor historical information about Pender Harbour, contact us to arrange a visit to Sarah Wray Hall or to request information. We have available:
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 Do you have any Yearbooks or Directories?
Do you have PH Secondary School yearbooks for these graduation years: 1973 to 77, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2005, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20 to 24. If you can donate any of these years, please get in touch! If you have old telephone books, we'd also be interested! Local Authors & Women's History
In this award-winning book, Pender Harbour is presented through the eyes of early women settlers. Produced by the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, proceeds preserve Pender Harbour's history. Softcover coming soon! More details 
Thank you for the support!
We acknowledge with thanks a 2025 grant from the Sunshine Coast Regional District. |
