The Pender Harbour and Egmont Chamber of Commerce

The voice of business from Pender Harbour to Egmont here on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. This area at the northern end of the Sechelt Peninsula, appreciated for its spectacular beauty, is undergoing significant growth and with this growth comes business opportunities. We encourage all businesses and interested community members to join the Chamber to showcase products and services, to network and build contacts, and to help influence and shape our future. Let us work together for a better tomorrow for both our businesses and our communities.

Madeira Park

Madeira Park is an unincorporated community located on the Sunshine Coast of BC. Collectively, Garden Bay, Madeira Park, and Irvine's Landing are known as Pender Harbour. Madeira Harbour is located off of Highway 101 in Pender Harbour. Travelers from the Lower Mainland should take a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale, and then drive 50 kilometers northwest on Highway 101. Pender Harbour is the most popular diving spot on the Sechelt Peninsula. Hire a guide or rent a boat and go exploring around Fearney Bluffs, Nelson Rock, and the Anderson and Charles Islands. Enjoy relaxing walks down easy paths, or go on more difficult hikes through the area surrounding Pender Harbour. The routes to Pender Hill and up Mount Daniel are popular with experienced hikers, their summits providing spectacular views overlooking the harbour.

Pender Harbour is well‐known for its salmon fishing. Other fish to be caught here include cod, flounder, and snapper, as well as surface‐feeding trout. The Pender Harbour Blues Festival & Pender Harbour Jazz Festival both feature concerts held in all three local communities, Garden Bay, Madeira Park and Irvines Landing. The Blues Festival kicks off the summer and the Jazz Festival takes place annually on the third weekend of September.

With fewer than 3000 residence, Pender Harbour offers a surprising array of amenities. The Painted Boat Resort and Spa with its world class restaurant and marina adds a touch of class to this charming sea‐side village. The Pender Harbour Golf Course offers 9 challenging holes at very reasonable rates with memberships available. The Pender Harbour Health Clinic includes a full time Dentist and Medical Clinic as well as offering a variety of other services including chiropractors and physiotherapists. Shopping includes an IGA, the Oak Tree Market (great butcher!), liquor store, pharmacy, RONA, tool rental yard, handi‐craft s and furniture stores, as well as and art gallery and book &gift stores. Restaurants, pubs and coffee shops round out the rest of the business community. Pender Harbour also features a pre‐school, Madeira Park Elementary School (K‐6) and Pender Harbour High School (7‐12).

Madeira Park is a safe and secure community with access to some of the finest boating and kayaking anywhere in the world!

President’s Message

I hope that your summer has been going as well as can be expected. With tourism down, it seems our community is suffering, particularly those of us whose principal business relies so heavily on those visitors. The reasons are many, including our dollar being too high for our American friends, poor economic reports on both sides of the border and high ferry costs. On this last subject, I'm attending a meeting offered by the Ferry Commissioner in Gibsons on September 7th. Should any of you have some specific subjects that you wish me to bring to his attention, please e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rick Harmer

For visitors to our site looking for tourist information, we invite you to view our Visitor Information page listed in the navigation on the left.