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22-475: Pender Island ( Saanich : st̕ey̕əs ) is the collective name for two Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea , British Columbia , Canada . The Pender Islands, consisting of North Pender Island and South Pender Island, have a combined area of approximately 34 km (13 sq mi). The Islands are home to about 2,250 permanent residents, as well as a large seasonal population . Like most of

44-429: A 9-hole golf course . Several residents pooled their funds in 1937 to purchase a 60- acre (24  ha ) parcel from George Grimmer, a son of Pender pioneer Washington Grimmer. These early investors planned and developed the layout of the golf course, which has operated ever since with the exception of a brief hiatus during World War II. There is also a 27-hole disc golf course called Golf Island Disc Park , which

66-611: A comma : , . When distinguished, the glottalized resonants are ⟨L¸ M¸ N¸ Ṉ¸ U¸ Y¸⟩ . The vowel /e/ is usually written Á , unless it occurs next to a post-velar consonant ( /k̠ k̠ʷ k̠ʼ k̠ʷʼ x̠ x̠ʷ ŋ̠ ŋ̠ʷ/ ), where it is written A . Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: In 2004, four characters from the SENĆOŦEN orthography were added to the Unicode standard. In Saanich, metathesis

88-801: A panoramic look-out with views of the San Juan Islands . The moderate 1.5 km (0.9 mi) trail at Roe Lake meanders through the Shingle Bay uplands to one of the Southern Gulf Island's few freshwater lakes. At Roesland , visitors can explore a historic 1908 farmhouse which has been restored by members of the Pender Islands Museum Society. Gulf Islands National Park Reserve has two options for campers on North Pender at this time: The drive-in, frontcountry sites at Prior Centennial Campground or

110-629: Is available at the First Voices SENĆOŦEN Community Portal. Saanich has no rounded vowels in native vocabulary. As in many languages, vowels are strongly affected by post-velar consonants. The following table includes all the sounds found in the North Straits dialects. No one dialect includes them all. Plosives are not aspirated, but are not voiced either. Ejectives have weak glottalization. The dentals are often written ⟨ θ ⟩, ⟨ tθʼ ⟩, but this

132-667: Is close to Magic Lake. It was founded in 1980 and is now maintained through the efforts of volunteers and the Pender Islands Park Commission. The course hosts disc golf tournaments including the Pender Island Invitational . Pender Island is also home to Canada's first olive grove , called Waterlea Farm. 100 trees were originally planted by owner Andrew Butt with the goal of producing the first "Made in Canada" olive oil. As of December 2023

154-399: Is inaccurate, as they are laminal sibilants , [s̻, ts̻] , and are only rarely interdental . The alveolars /s, ts, tsʼ/ , on the other hand, are apical , as are all alveolars, including the laterals. The post-velars are often written ⟨ q ⟩, ⟨ χ ⟩, etc., but are not actually uvular. Saanich stress is phonemic. Each full word has one stressed syllable, either in

176-428: Is named for HMS Plumper . In 1903, residents of Pender Island petitioned the government to dredge the isthmus between what is now North and South Pender Islands. Pender Island is a popular destination for fishing, boating, scuba diving, and other forms of outdoor recreation. The Pender Islands Handbook is a 400-page traveler's reference published by Richard Fox. It includes information on hiking, biking, boating,

198-655: Is no potable water at Beaumont and no campfires are permitted, regardless of season. Private camping is available at Port Browning Marina . The sites are drive-in and frontcountry. Tents can be pitched anywhere on the large waterfront lawn of the marina. Small RV's are also welcome but there are no hookups or dump station. Pender Island can be accessed by regular ferry service provided by BC Ferries from Swartz Bay (near Victoria), Tsawwassen (near Vancouver), and other southern Gulf Islands, which dock in Otter Bay. There are also scheduled seaplane and water taxi services. On

220-489: Is used as a grammatical device to indicate "actual" aspect . The actual aspect is most often translated into English as a be …-ing progressive. The actual aspect is derived from the "nonactual" verb form by a CV → VC metathesis process (i.e. consonant metathesizes with vowel). Disc golf Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

242-544: The Sunshine Coast , were given their current name by Captain Richards for Staff Commander, later Captain, Daniel Pender , RN who surveyed the coast of British Columbia aboard HMS  Plumper , HMS  Hecate , and Beaver from 1857 to 1870. The first permanent resident of European descent arrived on South Pender Island in 1886. Plumper Sound, the body of water between Mayne, Pender, and Saturna islands,

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264-650: The United States ; Port Browning and Otter Bay also offer anchorages. Saanich dialect "The W̱SÁNEĆ School Board, together with the FirstVoices program for revitalizing Aboriginal languages, is working to teach a new generation to speak SENĆOŦEN " at the ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱ Tribal School. A Saanich texting app was released in 2012. A SENĆOŦEN iPhone app was released in October 2011. An online dictionary, phrasebook, and language learning portal

286-533: The Islands there is a system of "car stops," Pender Island's official alternative to hitch hiking. Conveniently located around the island you will find posts with maps, and often a handy chair. Pender Island also has a helicopter pad located near the main shopping mall, the Driftwood Centre. Select helicopters can also land at Fire Hall #1. Bedwell Harbour is an official port of entry for sailors from

308-399: The history of the islands, and includes a navigational map. The most recent version is the 10th Anniversary Edition, published in 2016. The Pender Post is the island's locally-owned independent newspaper, which has been operating since 1971. The owner of another local news provider, Island Tides , went on sabbatical in the summer of 2017 and has not resumed publishing. The island has

330-416: The population and services reside on North Pender Island, with the highest concentration surrounding Magic Lake. Sencot'en place names on Pender Island ( st̕ey̕əs ) include ʔiləčən (Bedwell Harbor), and x̣ʷəl̕isən̕ (Port Browning) . North Pender Island place names include: Similarly, a few geographic names on South Pender Island include the following: At the time of European Contact , Pender Island

352-524: The property is for sale with 80+ trees listed as surviving. Gulf Islands National Park Reserve has opportunities for boating, kayaking, hiking, camping and wildlife viewing. A difficult 1.5 km (0.9 mi) trail at Beaumont leads from the Ainslie Point parking lot to the shoreline via steep switchbacks that cut through dense temperate rainforest. The difficult 1.5 km (0.9 mi) trail at Mt. Norman ascends 244 m (801 ft) to

374-576: The rest of the Southern Gulf Islands, the Pender Islands enjoy a sub-Mediterranean climate and feature open farmland, rolling forested hills, several lakes and small mountains, as well as many coves and beaches. Pender Island consists of two islands, North Pender and South Pender, which are separated by a narrow canal originally dredged in 1903. In 1955 the islands were connected by a one lane bridge, as they remain today. Most of

396-430: The root or in a suffix, the position of which is lexically determined. " Secondary stress " is sometimes described, but this is merely a way of distinguishing lexical schwas (with "secondary stress", like all other vowels in a word) from epenthetic schwas ("unstressed"). U+00CD (Í) U+0106 (Ć) U+015A (Ś) U+0166 (Ŧ) U+023A (Ⱥ) U+023B (Ȼ) U+023D (Ƚ) U+023E (Ⱦ) U+1E30 (Ḱ) The Saanich orthography

418-713: The walk-in (or kayak-in) backcountry sites at Shingle Bay. Prior Centennial has 17 reservable sites and amenities include potable water, pit toilets, picnic tables and fire pits (seasonally available). Shingle Bay campground in the Roe Lake portion of the Reserve has 10 reservable primitive campsites with picnic tables and a pit toilet but no potable water. The walk/boat in sites at Beaumont on South Pender are closed for overnight camping until further notice as of summer 2022. Beaumont has 11 sites, and amenities include pit toilets and 15 mooring buoys for boaters, which remain open. There

440-596: Was built on an ancient First Nations village site. The provincial government's 2007 settlement with the Tsawwassen First Nation included hunting and fishing rights on and around Pender Island—an arrangement to which the Sencot'en Alliance objected, saying those rights are theirs under the 1852 Douglas Treaty . A Spanish expedition led by Francisco de Eliza visited Pender in 1791, naming it "Ysla de San Eusevio". The islands, along with Pender Harbour on

462-405: Was created by Dave Elliott in 1978, by using a typewriter to combine Latin characters with other marks to create new characters. It is a unicase alphabet, using only uppercase letters with the single exception of a lower-case s for the third person possessive suffix. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is not always indicated, but may be written with a spacing cedilla : ¸ , or less formally with

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484-540: Was inhabited by Coast Salish peoples speaking the North Straits Salish language . There is an Indian reserve at Hay Point on South Pender Island, which is home to members of the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nations . Carbon dating of artifacts in shell middens near Shark Cove identify an Indigenous village site that has been more or less continuously inhabited for five millennia. The Poets Cove Resort

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