Period: Pre WWI

  • Pollard House

    September 2, 2025
    "The Maples" is built for Elijah Pollard on the shore of Port Browning by Walter Bowerman. (He will build many…
  • Port Washington Hall

    September 2, 2025
    The Port Washington Community Hall is built.
  • Port Washington Store

    September 2, 2025
    A larger, second Hope Bay Store and two small warehouses are built by R.S.W. Corbett.
  • September 2, 2025
    A third Pender Post Office is established at Port Washington with Spencer Percival as postmaster.
  • September 2, 2025
    The 1902 Pender Island School is expanded by raising it on a brick foundation to make space for a lower…
  • Brick Factory ca

    September 2, 2025
    After buying 50 acres at what is now Bricky Bay, the Coast Shale Brick Company opens a brick factory, employing…
  • September 2, 2025
    Jeannie Hamilton is the first woman to run for public office on Pender, as a school trustee. Sadly, she loses.
  • September 2, 2025
    Canadian Northern Pacific railway inaugurates a new Gulf Island ferry service from Sidney with the steamer S.S. Joan.