Period: WWI–WWII

  • September 2, 2025
    The Hodgson family open a general store on Bedwell Harbour on South Pender. They later add several rental cabins and…
  • Arthur Spalding

    September 2, 2025
    In January 1932, South Pender settlers and friends Gerald Richardson and Arthur Spalding pass away. A tribute describes them as…
  • September 2, 2025
    The first Fall Fair is held at the Hope Bay Community Hall.
  • September 2, 2025
    Prohibition ends in the US, thus bringing an end to the risky but often lucrative smuggling from the Gulf Islands.
  • September 2, 2025
    The Hope Bay Store is further enlarged using lumber salvaged from a dismantled Doukhobor settlement on Piers Island.
  • Pender Island Golf & Country Club

    September 2, 2025
    Several Pender residents put up money to purchase a 60-acre parcel from George Grimmer for the Pender Island Golf and…
  • September 2, 2025
    On May 1, the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd opens on South Pender on land donated by Gerald Richardson's…
  • September 2, 2025
    Canada enters World War II, and the Great Depression ends.
  • September 2, 2025
    Real estate developer and island booster, A.E Craddock, subdivides the former Higgs family land on South Pender as the "Andover"…
  • September 2, 2025
    The fish reduction plant at Shingle Bay closes due to a fire.