Period: Modern

  • September 2, 2025
    The Hope Bay Store complex is destroyed by fire in the early hours of Sunday, February 23rd.
  • September 2, 2025
    Brooks Point on South Pender is acquired by the Capital Regional District (CRD) as a conservation area.
  • September 2, 2025
    Tru Value Foods expands significantly, moving to its current location at the Driftwood Centre.
  • Time Capsule, Pender Cemetery

    September 2, 2025
    A 100-year time capsule is installed at the Pender Cemetery by the Pender Islands Museum Society with 106 sponsors, to…
  • September 2, 2025
    New Pender Island Community Hall opens on land donated by Karl Hamson in the mid-1990s. The women of Pender carve…
  • Roe House Renovations

    September 2, 2025
    Parks Canada offers the 1908 Roe family home at Roesland to the Museum Society on the condition that the society…
  • September 2, 2025
    The Bedwell Harbour Resort on South Pender Island is closed and demolished. Construction on Poets Cove Resort begins. Developers face…
  • September 2, 2025
    "Hope Bay Rising Holdings Ltd.", a group of islanders, acquires the Hope Bay Store property. A new business complex opens…
  • September 2, 2025
    The Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Canada's 40th National Park, is created. On Pender, it includes Mount Norman Park, Beaumont…
  • September 2, 2025
    Greenburn Lake and adjacent properties on South Pender are acquired for inclusion in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve.