“Women's lives recounted in their own words are rare indeed. Women of Pender Harbour is a welcome exception, following forty remarkable everyday women across a century and more. These diverse women share their upbringing and first romances, their roles as wives, mothers, and fisherwomen, and their determination to build community. Through these women's recollections, we glimpse the coastal enclave of Pender Harbour. Once isolated and self-contained, it increasingly appealed to “summer people,” some of them so entranced they became residents. Women of Pender Harbour is an important slice of British Columbia history.”

-JEAN BARMAN, Professor Emeritus of Educational History at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, author of The West Beyond the West, Stanley Park's Secret, The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey and British Columbia: Spirit of the People

Contents
Introduction by Edith Iglauer Daly
Chapter 1: The First Women of Pender Harbour
Chapter 2: “All in the Same Boat”
Chapter 3: The Battlefront, the Home Front and the Waterfront
Chapter 4: Peace but Little Quiet
Chapter 5: The Times Are A-Changing
Chapter 6: Forming the Future
Conclusion: The Ordinary-Extraordinary: Concluding Thoughts by Jamie Yard
Afterword by Theresa Kishkan

Proceeds from sales of the book will support the collection and preservation of historical materials in Pender Harbour. For additional publication information, please contact Dorothy Faulkner, chair of the Archive Legacy Committee of the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society.

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