Pender Island

Pender Island, Pender Islands. These are not official geographic names. See N Pender I and S Pender I for brief community histories; see Pender Canal for a short biography of Daniel Pender, for whom Pender I was named by Capt George Richards in 1859. The main post office, located on N Pender I, has for many years been called Pender I (singular)—and that name is still in widespread use. As a geographic term, however, it is obsolete, as it refers to a time prior to 1903 when today’s N and S...

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