Period: Settler Era

  • Elijah Pollard

    September 2, 2025
    Arthur Stanford and Elijah Pollard (1875-1963) pre-empt land on South Pender.
  • September 2, 2025
    Albert Menzies organizes the first Presbyterian student minister, his younger brother George Menzies, to serve Gulf Island parishioners by boat.
  • September 2, 2025
    The first school and a three-member school board are elected, with 11 pupils. Fanny Lawson is hired as the first…
  • MacDonald Family ca

    September 2, 2025
    John M. MacDonald (1843-1917; brother to Henrietta Menzies), his wife Jessie (1854-1953), and their five children arrive on North Pender.
  • September 2, 2025
    BC bans people of Japanese descent from voting in provincial elections.
  • Margaret & Alexander Brackett familyckett while still in New Westminster.

    September 2, 2025
    Alexander (1860-1929) and Margaret Brackett (née Thatcher; 1864-1945) come to Pender and purchase land on Browning Harbour, next to the…
  • September 2, 2025
    John and Jessie MacDonald build their family home (still standing near the Auchterlonie Centre) on 22 acres on North Pender…
  • September 2, 2025
    Captain S. Hayashi purchases 160 acres from Washington Grimmer on Otter Bay, and brings Japanese loggers and fishermen to the…
  • September 2, 2025
    A school building is constructed beside the original community hall on Port Washington Road.
  • September 2, 2025
    Robert (1854-1939) and Margaret Roe (1853-1937) and their family come to Pender from Scotland.