- September 2, 2025The US stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression of the 1930s. On Pender, quarrying, forestry, fishing, and farming…
September 2, 2025Stonecutter and settler Alexander Brackett dies of "black lung" disease caused by the rock dust he worked in for much…
September 2, 2025The BC Fish Salteries Ltd builds a herring saltery plant at Otter Bay (Hayashi Cove). Operated by the Matsuyama Co,…- September 2, 2025During the Depression, guests at Roesland Farm Resort dwindle and the Roes struggle to keep the facility going. Some years,…
- September 2, 2025The ship Island Princess, previously known as the Daily, is sold to the Gulf Island Ferry Co, rebuilt with a…
- September 2, 2025"The Maples" on Port Browning is opened for guests by Evelyn Pollard. It will operate until 1970 when guests are…
- September 2, 2025Washington Grimmer, one of the first settler-era arrivals on North Pender, dies at 79.
- September 2, 2025Robert Stewart Wallace (“RSW“) Corbett of the Hope Bay Store retires. His son Percy becomes Postmaster and takes over, assisted…
September 2, 2025Work bees are a popular cooperative approach to fundraising, helping islanders in need, building barns, and looking after community halls…- September 2, 2025The fish reduction plant at Shingle Bay declares bankruptcy, but is reconstituted and continues to operate until it is destroyed…
