Written Arts
Many award-winning authors make or have made Pender Harbour their home, and we’re mentioned in the late LR Wright’s popular murder-mysteries set on the Sunshine Coast.
The annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in nearby Sechelt features new and established Canadian authors. Offsite link: Festival of the Written Arts.
Library Services
Pender Harbour Reading Centre
12952 Madeira Park Road - 604-883-2983
1:30-3:30 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Our reading centre is much like a library, but without the pedigree and funding. It is part of the BC Libraries book-sharing program, so patrons may order in titles from libraries throughout the province. Membership is $5.
Located at the Pender Harbour Cultural Centre in premises provided by the SCRD for $1 a year, it is funded by memberships, donations, investment interest, the occasional late fee and Provincial Government grants.
Offsite link: Pender Harbour Reading Centre.
History - Elna Warnock, Doreen Lee and Joan Rae joined forces in 1966 to start a book-lending service in Pender Harbour, opening our reading centre in a tiny room in the Pender Harbour Community Hall, stocked with books donated by locals.
The library moved into its current location, an old Dept. of Forestry house in 1986. It got a financial boost with a $60 thousand bequest from member Ruth Schafer, but controversy arose when the SCRD director of the day, Gordon Wilson, arranged the usual, annual grant-in-aid with no knowledge of that the group had received and invested this substantial amount of money.
Pender Harbour Reading Centre Society - Registered as a society in 1988, this group manages the operations of the Pender Harbour Reading Centre. The 2010 board of directors is Chair, Janet Falk; Vice-Chair, Lori Rymes; Secretary, Carol Ehman; Treasurer, Kathy Harrison and Director at Large, Vera Christensen.
Sechelt Library
5797 Cowrie Street, Sechelt - 604-885-3260
SCRD funding allows Pender Harbour residents to access the collection and inter-library programs of the Sechelt Library. Offsite link: Sechelt Library.
Notable Authors
Iglauer Daly, Edith
Award winning author and long-time, full-time Garden Bay resident. Fishing With John, Dennison’s Ice Road, Inuit Journey, Seven Stone, The Strangers Next Door.
Kishkan, Theresa
Award-winning novelist and poet, a long-time, full-time Sakinaw Lake resident. Sisters of Grass, Inishbream, The Age of Water Lilies, A Man in a Distant Field.
Pass, John
Award-winning poet and long-time, full-time Sakinaw Lake resident. Stumbling in the Bloom, Water Stair, Radical Innocence, The Hour’s Acropolis.
Smart, Elizabeth
This controversial author lived in Irvine’s Landing in 1941-42, completing her famous novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, and giving birth to her first child, Georgina Barker.
Whelan, Dianne
Author and cinematographer, Garden Bay resident. The Vanishing Land.
White, Howard
Award-winning (Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Order of Canada, Order of BC) author and poet, Harbour Publishing owner and long-time, full-time Madeira Park resident. Writing in the Rain, The Men There Were Then, Ghost in the Gears, The Sunshine Coast.
Local Publishers
Harbour Publishing
4437 Rondeview Road, Madeira Park, 604-883-2730
Well-known for Raincoast Chronicles and other coastal history, Harbour Publishing is the largest publishing house in Western Canada, owned and operated by Howard and Mary White. Offsite link: Harbour Publishing.
Paq Press
4130 Francis Peninsula Road, Madeira Park, 604-883-0770
Paq Press publishes the community's newsmagazine, the Harbour Spiel, established in 1990. Brian Lee is Publisher, Editor, Photographer, Sales Manager, Bookkeeper and Secretary. Offsite link: Harbour Spiel.
Pender Harbour Paper Mill
5941 Dubois Road, Kleindale, 604-883-0010
The Paper Mill, owned and operated by Myrtle Winchester, started the Harbour Spiel and published it for 15 years before turning over the reins to Brian Lee (Paq Press).
The Paper Mill publishes Pender Harbour Online.
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