by Matthew Coutts | Feb 2, 2026 | From Our President
I have learned several new words and phrases in my short time here that thoroughly highlight the uniqueness of Pender Island and its inhabitants. Words like “friend-vestment”, a reference one person made to volunteering on an upcoming project with an innate...
by Matthew Coutts | Dec 3, 2025 | From Our President
The Pender Post Society would like to extend heartfelt condolences to its readers on the loss of Helen Allison, an island legend whose contributions to this newsletter over the last five decades have been, quite simply, unparalleled. Helen passed away last month at...
by Matthew Coutts | Nov 7, 2025 | From Our President
To the Honourable Josie Osborne, BC Minister of Health I am a resident of Pender Island, a community of about 3,000 people – though, I swear it more than doubles over the summer. We host thousands of other British Columbians on day trips, weekend getaways, or while...
by Matthew Coutts | Sep 27, 2025 | From Our President
I gave myself an impossible task last month, and I knew from the start it was doomed to fail. As we finished September’s issue of The Pender Post – an issue I’ll acknowledge only after the fact had a rather auspicious number – I was reviewing the Calendar of Events....
by Matthew Coutts | Aug 28, 2025 | From Our President
The answer is 10 years, I’d been told. Though I’ve also heard seven is the baseline; and one ambitious would-be local claimed to have done it in three. Another woman, who first set foot on Pender Island some 14 years ago, suggested it was not so much the length of...
by Matthew Coutts | Jul 24, 2025 | From Our President
I heard the humpback before I saw it. The moist and mighty blast it exhaled as it breached the waters of the Salish Sea. It was, for a moment, the only thing I could hear. The only sense I could process. I had expected to spot the great wanderer in the distance, so my...
