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a Heat Pump to Protect
​Pender Harbour's Historic Archives

2024 Fundraiser
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Storage of Pender Harbour's historic artifacts and documents requires the modernized climate controls of a heat pump to meet recommended standards for preserving archival materials and objects.

​Our auxiliary building at the Sarah Wray Hall site houses Pender Harbour's archival documents and artifacts. Separately in this same building, traditional boat building classes take place. Both areas are
presently heated with old, inefficient electric baseboards. 

The Canadian Conservation Institute recommends certain environmental standards to preserve archival material and three-dimensional objects. A heat pump will allow us to more closely meet these standards. 

Additionally, a heat pump for the boat building area will allow faster drying times and more stable temperatures. 

With a mini-split heat pump, each separate area will have its own controls, and based on experiences of other historical societies, our electricity costs will be reduced substantially.

Better for Mother Nature, better for Pender Harbour's history!​ 
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Our goal is to raise $10,000
to help cover the mini-split
​heat pump equipment and installation costs.

Our current total (Dec. 2024) is at ~$800

​How to Donate

Etransfer to [email protected]. Please write "heat pump" in the note area.

Mail a cheque to Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society. 4334 Irvines Landing Rd., Garden Bay, BC, V0N1S1. Please write "heat pump" in the memo area.
 
Donate cash in person at any of our events: April Tools, May Day, Pender Harbour Wooden Boat Show, and whenever Sarah Wray Hall is open throughout the summer.

Donate with a Credit Card by clicking the blue Donate button below. Please note we're charged a 4.4% processing fee​. (We do not store your personal or banking information.)

Donate with a Credit Card

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​Thank you to our wonderful supporters!​
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The archival collection includes:

• Photos, photo albums, maps, historic documents relating to Pender Harbour's families, businesses and community groups
• Family collections like Bert Mackay's "museum"; the Allen & Sharie Farrell Collection
• Patches, flags, yearbooks, and school paraphernalia
• Tools, fishing, and logging equipment
• Kitchen tools, children's games, musical instruments, sporting equipment
• Artwork, books, fish company flags
• And much more!

Irvines Landing School felt patch circa 1947

A couple of the many salmon can labels in our collection.

Salmon can label

Tapestry by Gladys Trappitt and Peter Trappitt

Delicate woven basket

A large collection of fishing company flags