South Pender LTC Special Meeting Minutes

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South Pender Local Trust Committee 
Special Business Meeting 
January 17, 2025 ADOPTED Page 1 of 5 
 
South Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Special Meeting 
 
Date:  
Location:  
January 17, 2025 
South Pender Fire Hall 
8961 Gowlland Point Road, South Pender Island, BC 
 
Members Present: Tobi Elliott, Chair 
 Dag Falck, Local Trustee 
 Kristina Evans, Local Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Kim Stockdill, Island Planner 
 Katherine Vogt, Recorder (electronic) 
  
Others Present: Hereditary Chief Eric Pelkey 
There were approximately eighteen (18) members of the public 
present 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Chair Elliott called the meeting to order at 10:31 a.m. She acknowledged that the meeting 
was being held on the territory of the Coast Salish First Nations. She welcomed everyone to 
this special meeting of the Local Trust Committee and introduced Hereditary Chief Eric 
Pelkey. 
2. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
Hereditary Chief Eric Pelkey (W̱IĆKINEM) presented a map showing the SENĆOŦEN place 
names and significance of sites within the territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ People. He explained 
that the map originated from a precedent setting BC Supreme Court case by which 
W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations upheld their territorial rights to hunting and fishing. 
Chief Pelkey explained the color codes in the map representing various activities and the 
arrows that represented the path of the salmon where reef nets were placed for harvesting. 
Chief Pelkey’s family, home, hereditary status, and traditional reef net site originates in 
QENEN,IW̱, at Poet’s Cove. Reef net demonstrations are presented at this site every 
summer and are hoped to be expanded to other sites in the future.  
W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations used the map to achieve an injunction against the construction of a 
marina right outside their village and demonstrate the validity of the 1852 Treaty rights to 
hunt and fish in their territory. 
Chief Pelkey was glad to share the map and W̱SÁNEĆ nation’s history with everyone at the 
meeting and looked forward to sharing this knowledge with others going forward. 
Chair Elliott thanked Chief Pelkey for his presentation. 
A D O P T E D 

 
South Pender Local Trust Committee 
Special Business Meeting 
January 17, 2025 ADOPTED Page 2 of 5 
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
The following additions to the agenda were presented for consideration: 
• add item 4. Townhall, move other items forward 
By general consent the agenda was approved as amended. 
4. TOWN HALL 
Members of the public made the following comments: 
• Greater setback requirements means that neighbors are able to provide input on a 
building development that they do not pay taxes on, yet property taxes are not being 
lowered 
o The speaker would not be able to build on 20% of their property and the 
waterfront properties in front them would lose 40% of their buildable space by a 
20% increase of side setbacks and the increase in the setback from the sea 
o This could affect property values; and some assessme

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