Archives: Timeline Entries

  • 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.
  • BeautyrestCover

    September 2, 2025
    "Mille Fleurs" is sold to Wallace and Nefia Lynd and opened as Beautyrest Lodge the next year. (It is named…
  • September 2, 2025
    Pilot Officer Grover Sargent crashes his Hawker Hurricane near Clam Bay Road on February 4th. A memorial cairn is erected…
  • R.S.W.Corbett

    September 2, 2025
    R.S.W. Corbett, longtime proprietor of the first general store on Pender at Hope Bay, dies.