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This small area is important to our history as the site of the first hospital on the Sunshine Coast, which is celebrated every August at Hospital Bay Day.
The old St. Mary's Hospital building still looks over Hospital Bay, now as the Sundowner Inn.
About a quarter of Pender Harbour's population lives in Garden Bay, which features a grocery/general store, post office, one of three Pender Harbour government wharves, a number of marinas and Garden Bay Hotel (which is not really a hotel but a marina, restaurant and pub— it's an old, old license, thus the misleading designation) popular for its live entertainment.
Garden Bay wasn't named for its beautiful gardens, although there are lots of those.
It seems that a government surveyor, a Mr. Garden, assigned to mapping and naming the area was either lacking in imagination or over-endowed with ego, leaving us with Garden Bay, Garden Bay Road, Garden Peninsula and Garden Bay Lake.
Also see The First Hospital.
For local business information, visit Pender Harbour Dot Com.
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