Hornby Island

Northern Gulf Islands · Islands Trust Local Trust Area

Hornby Island has its own site

Visit hornbytown.org → for public records and the petition to make Hornby Island a town.

Reached via two ferries beyond Denman, Hornby is an arts-and-tourism island under its own Local Trust Committee.

2026 trustee election

Official winners declared. April Lewis: 396 votes (declared elected); Jeffrey Rabena: 244 votes (declared elected); Alex Allen: 186 votes; Ronaldo Cruz: 181 votes; Pat Mullan: 141 votes; George Buvyer: 49 votes. The Comox Valley Regional District labels these results official and marks the two winners elected. The Trust summary still labels its table preliminary. Results checked on 1 November 2026 against the Trust’s October 22 confirmation release. The twelve local trust areas have confirmed elected or acclaimed trustees. Bowen’s municipal appointments remain pending until November 9. Candidate vote totals and confirmation of the winners are separate records. Trustees are scheduled to be sworn in on November 12.

Comox Valley Regional District, official election and referendum results

Public-record check · 1 November 2026

Executive approval confirmed for 176 and 177

The adopted September 23 Executive Committee minutes approve OCP amendment 176 and land-use amendment 177 (EC-2026-099/100). This confirms that approval stage. It does not by itself establish ministerial approval of the OCP amendment or final local adoption. We have not verified a later adoption record in this check.

Adopted Executive Committee minutes, September 23, page 3

The incoming Trust Council

The Trust’s October 22 release confirms the elected or acclaimed trustees for the twelve local trust areas. Bowen’s municipal appointments remain pending until November 9. Trustees are scheduled to be sworn in on November 12, with inaugural Council meetings on November 13 and 14. The current term and the incoming term are distinct.

Trustee confirmation release, October 22

Ferry funding: the federal response

In an October 27 letter to the Trust, the federal Transport Minister describes the existing coastal ferry subsidy agreement. The letter puts the 2026–27 grant to British Columbia at approximately $38.6 million and says the Province determines which ferry services receive assistance. It directs questions about fares and service costs to the Province. This is a response about existing arrangements, rather than an announcement of a new local ferry service or fare reduction.

Federal Transport Minister’s response, October 27, pages 1–2

Other local votes · checked 21 October

The CVRD reports Daniel Arbour acclaimed as Electoral Area A director and Chelsea McCannel-Keene acclaimed as School District 71 Trustee Electoral Area 4 (Area A) trustee. Its official animal-control referendum count is 853 yes and 348 no. The question sought assent to Bylaw 915, which would add animal-control services to the Denman and Hornby bylaw-enforcement service. Voter assent is a separate step from the board adopting the bylaw.

Comox Valley Regional District, official election and referendum results

This is a dated status check, not a full re-audit of every bylaw.

Current trustees

  • Timothy Peterson — Chair
  • Alex Allen — Trustee
  • Grant Scott — Trustee

Past trustee elections

2022: Hornby Islands Trust councillor election

2 seats available

CandidateVotesResult
Alex Allen323Elected
Grant Scott286Elected

Source: CivicInfo BC 2022 Local Election Results

CivicInfo elected-official report verifies elected trustees and vote totals. Non-elected/opponent rows are pending a separate official results source before publication.

The archive

299 Islands Trust meeting documents on record. Each links to its exact source.

Documented examples

  • Five Years, $16,700, and an Unfinished Plan — Hornby Island's Local Trust Committee chartered a comprehensive OCP/LUB review to fix housing and short-term-rental rules, set a $16,700 two-year budget and a spring 2024 adoption target — then documented, in its own staff reports, a failed first engagement, a nearly exhausted budget, and a project still unfinished in 2026. Meanwhile, a rezoning file sat deferred for roughly three years awaiting the same unresolved planning question, and the affordable housing that did arrive on Hornby was financed and delivered by agencies outside the Trust.