- September 2, 2025The province surveys North and South Pender into “quarter sections“ of 160 acres each.
September 2, 2025Lawrence (1839-1917) and Helen (née Hope) Auchterlonie (1837-1888) arrive from Scotland. With Helen's brother Rutherford the siblings divide the property…- September 2, 2025Brothers Oliver and Washington Grimmer arrive and acquire a 840-acre property from Noah Buckley. (One source says 1,400 acres.)
- September 2, 2025The Canadian government criminalizes the potlatch tradition among coastal BC First Nations. The ban would not be lifted until 1951.
September 2, 2025Royal Navy Staff Commander Daniel Pender, after whom Pender Island is named, retires to Britain. He will be best known…- September 2, 2025While working at the Mortimer quarry on Pender, Alexander Hamilton (1862-1942) is so taken with the area that he acquires…
September 2, 2025Washington Grimmer (1851-1930) marries Elizabeth Auchterlonie (1869-1945), daughter of Helen (née Hope) and Lawrence Auchterlonie.- September 2, 2025The first settler child born on Pender, Nellie Grimmer, arrives on September 24th. Midwife Mrs Bennett attends from Mayne Island.
- September 2, 2025The first permanent settler on South Pender, Arthur Reed Spalding (1863-1932), acquires 800+ acres of land.
- September 2, 2025Hugh Hamilton, age 19, comes to Pender from Scotland to help “improve“ the property owned by his brother Alexander at…
