Archives: Timeline Entries

  • Island Phonebook

    September 2, 2025
    The Pender Islands Lions Club publishes the first Pender Islands Telephone List, an idea put forward by President Wally Cunliffe.
  • September 2, 2025
    The Pender Islands Community Plan is adopted by the Islands Trust to guide land use and development for the islands,…
  • September 2, 2025
    The Port Washington and Hope Bay Post Offices are closed and relocated to the Driftwood Centre with David A. Nance…
  • September 2, 2025
    Dr Don Sutherland replaces the retiring Dr Homer Rogers on the condition that a new health centre be built. (Doctors…
  • September 2, 2025
    George Coates acquires the site of the Driftwood Centre and begins redevelopment. (It will be completed in 1988-89.)
  • September 2, 2025
    The Disc Golf park in Magic Lake is "roughed out" by Alex Fraser, Dave Watson, and Doug Keating. The second…
  • September 2, 2025
    The present Pender Island Golf Clubhouse is built.
  • Health Centre Opening

    September 2, 2025
    Mary Coleman, the widow of Bishop Michael Coleman, who first raised funds for a medical clinic in the late 1960s,…
  • South Pender Firehall

    September 2, 2025
    The South Pender Fire Hall is built.
  • September 2, 2025
    The Crown grants the property of the 1902 Pender Island School to the Pender Island Recreation and Agricultural and Hall…