Book Project
Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History
Soft cover book is now available!
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To order a soft cover book, please fill out the form.
Introductory price is $30 until Sep 5/26 Payment is upon pick up |
You can also drop by our table at the Pender Harbour Wooden Boat Show (Aug. 8-9), or stop at Sarah Wray Hall on one of our opening dates for the Early Japanese-Canadian Families of Pender Harbour exhibit, until September 5. |
Latest News
August 1, 2026: Soft Cover Reprint is now available!
A revised reprint of the book in soft cover is now available. We thank our financial contributors who made this softcover version possible. Thanks also to Howard White and his amazing team at Harbour Publishing.
July 3, 2026: Soft Cover Reprint Update
We are pleased to announce that Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History has been reprinted in soft cover. The award-winning hard cover book, published by Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society in 2010, was the result of nine years of volunteer work. The book preserves the memories of the lives of early women of Pender Harbour while telling the story of the harbour's development from an isolated settlement into a modern-day community. With proceeds from the hard cover book, the Society purchased physical and online storage to catalogue the area's growing archives and artifacts.
To our financial donors who have made this soft cover edition possible, thank you! We also thank Howard White and his team at Harbour Publishing for their invaluable contributions. And to all who have contributed and supported us in other ways, thank you!
October 2025: We are sold out!
Our award-winning book The Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History published in hardcover in 2010 is now sold out.
About the Book
“Women's lives recounted in their own words are rare indeed. Women of Pender Harbour is a welcome exception, following forty remarkable everyday women across a century and more. These diverse women share their upbringing and first romances, their roles as wives, mothers, and fisherwomen, and their determination to build community. Through these women's recollections, we glimpse the coastal enclave of Pender Harbour. Once isolated and self-contained, it increasingly appealed to 'summer people,' some of them so entranced they became residents. Women of Pender Harbour is an important slice of British Columbia history.”
- Jean Barman, Professor Emeritus of Educational History at the University of British Columbia
Pender Harbour's first book of women's history - Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History - has won two 2010 awards, one from the BC Historical Federation and one from the B.C. Genealogical Society.
Developed over a nine-year period, this hard cover book was written by Dorothy Faulkner, Elaine Park and Cathy Jenks with the assistance of many local volunteers.
Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History preserves the memories of more than 40 early women settlers of the Pender Harbour area. Together, Faulkner, Park and Jenks have woven the women's voices into a tapestry of remembrance while telling the story of Pender Harbour's development from an isolated settlement of logging and fishing families into a vibrant modern-day community. It is a story that reflects the history of many of BC's coastal villages.
The book is a project of the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, a volunteer-run non-profit group dedicated to preserving the history of the Pender Harbour area and protecting its historic sites and artifacts. Under the leadership of Faulkner, the project began as a dream of a few local women to honour the women pioneers of the area. Starting in 2001, a small army of volunteers conducted oral history interviews, and gathered information and photographs. The project culminated with the writing process and the interweaving of all material collected.
Totaling 256 pages, the book features a fascinating historical narrative augmented by 230 heirloom photographs, biographical profiles of participating women, a Pender Harbour historical timeline, and genealogies of some of the area's founding families. The noted local authors Edith Iglauer Daly and Theresa Kishkan, respectively, contributed a foreword and afterword. The full-colour dust jacket features a painting of early Irvines Landing created specially for the book by recognized artist Motoko, and the endpapers feature a historic map of the area. Book design was donated by Harbour Publishing. Thank you to everyone who contributed their photos, their stories and their time!
Proceeds from sales of the book will support the collection and preservation of historical materials in Pender Harbour. Listen to an interview with the authors on CBC's North by NorthWest hosted by Sheryl MacKay.
- Jean Barman, Professor Emeritus of Educational History at the University of British Columbia
Pender Harbour's first book of women's history - Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History - has won two 2010 awards, one from the BC Historical Federation and one from the B.C. Genealogical Society.
Developed over a nine-year period, this hard cover book was written by Dorothy Faulkner, Elaine Park and Cathy Jenks with the assistance of many local volunteers.
Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History preserves the memories of more than 40 early women settlers of the Pender Harbour area. Together, Faulkner, Park and Jenks have woven the women's voices into a tapestry of remembrance while telling the story of Pender Harbour's development from an isolated settlement of logging and fishing families into a vibrant modern-day community. It is a story that reflects the history of many of BC's coastal villages.
The book is a project of the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, a volunteer-run non-profit group dedicated to preserving the history of the Pender Harbour area and protecting its historic sites and artifacts. Under the leadership of Faulkner, the project began as a dream of a few local women to honour the women pioneers of the area. Starting in 2001, a small army of volunteers conducted oral history interviews, and gathered information and photographs. The project culminated with the writing process and the interweaving of all material collected.
Totaling 256 pages, the book features a fascinating historical narrative augmented by 230 heirloom photographs, biographical profiles of participating women, a Pender Harbour historical timeline, and genealogies of some of the area's founding families. The noted local authors Edith Iglauer Daly and Theresa Kishkan, respectively, contributed a foreword and afterword. The full-colour dust jacket features a painting of early Irvines Landing created specially for the book by recognized artist Motoko, and the endpapers feature a historic map of the area. Book design was donated by Harbour Publishing. Thank you to everyone who contributed their photos, their stories and their time!
Proceeds from sales of the book will support the collection and preservation of historical materials in Pender Harbour. Listen to an interview with the authors on CBC's North by NorthWest hosted by Sheryl MacKay.
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