Archives: Timeline Entries

  • September 2, 2025
    World War II ends, and the island again counts the loss of its promising young islanders: Fred Conery, Alan Crane,…
  • September 2, 2025
    Operating almost continuously on land acquired in 1937, the Pender Island Golf and Country Club is officially incorporated as a…
  • September 2, 2025
    Mrs. Marie Craddock sells Waterlea, but it continues to host “paying guests“ until 1952.
  • September 2, 2025
    Royal Canadian Legion Branch 239 (Pender Island) receives its Dominion Command Charter. The Legion Hall is located on MacKinnon Rd…
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    September 2, 2025
    In June, the Grosvenor House Hotel at Port Washington is destroyed by fire.
  • September 2, 2025
    The fish reduction plant re-opens at Shingle Bay after an earlier fire.
  • September 2, 2025
    Victor Menzies sells his farm to Ashton Ross-Smith and retires from farming. The farmhouse is left unoccupied, with much of…
  • Spalding House

    September 2, 2025
    The original Spalding farm house on South Pender is razed. The location is now Lilias Spalding Park.
  • Honeymoon Cabin, Roesland Resort

    September 2, 2025
    As many as 17 cabins are available for summer rental at Roesland, and the Roes discontinue farming operations.
  • September 2, 2025
    A gathering of Gulf Island "Old-Timers" is held on May 15 on Salt Spring Island. Pender is well-represented.