Archives: Timeline Entries

  • 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.
  • September 2, 2025
    Albert Menzies leases and later buys the Rutherford Hope farm, developing an excellent dairy operation with prize-winning Jersey breeding stock.
  • Fanny Hooson(née Lawson)

    September 2, 2025
    Frances “Fanny“ Lawson, the first school teacher on Pender, marries Hope Bay quarry owner Evan Hooson.
  • Blue Tarpon

    September 2, 2025
    Leonard Higgs' sisters, Winifred and Mabel, settle on South Pender in their new home, "Blue Tarpon."
  • September 2, 2025
    A great fire in New Westminster results in the Hamilton and Brackett families moving to Pender full-time.
  • September 2, 2025
    The Pender's Farmers Institute is created, the first island-wide organization.
  • Hamilton Family Home

    September 2, 2025
    Alexander and Jeannie Hamilton build their home, "The Knolls" at Port Browning.