North Pender Island

Southern Gulf Islands · Islands Trust Local Trust Area

North Pender Island has its own site

Visit northpendertown.org → for public records and the petition to make North Pender Island a town.

The more populated of the two Penders, joined to South Pender by a bridge.

Current trustees

  • David Maude — Chair
  • Aaron Campbell — Trustee
  • Deb Morrison — Trustee

Past trustee elections

2022: North Pender Islands Trust councillor election

2 seats available

CandidateVotesResult
Aaron Campbell705Elected
Deb Morrison606Elected

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

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

Documented examples

  • "Polite Behavior Is Certainly Not Doing It": The Case on North Pender — North Pender Island shows what the Islands Trust model looks like in slow motion: a housing problem the Trust itself says has run "for more than a decade" before a dedicated response began, a complaint-driven enforcement system carrying a multi-year backlog, and broad land-use power that stops exactly where residents' most urgent needs begin. All of it is funded by an existing Local Trust Area tax-base requisition rising 8.1 per cent, not a uniform household increase — one that even North Pender's own trustee suggested voting down to force the province to listen.