Daniel Pender was a
Royal Navy
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Staff Commander, later
captain
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, who surveyed the
Coast of British Columbia
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aboard , and from 1857 to 1870.
Pender was recorded as the second master of the admiralty survey vessel, HMS ''Plumper'', in 1857 when he arrived at
Esquimalt
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de ...
.
He was promoted as the ship's master in 1860. He was, however, transferred to HMS ''Hecate'' a year later after the Plumper was deemed too small and unsuitable for the coast's waters.
When the British government commissioned the
Hudson Bay Company
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to continue the hydraulic survey of the coast, he was given command of the company's ''Beaver''.
He replaced
Captain George Henry Richards, who was recalled to Britain after he was appointed as the
Hydrographer of the Royal Navy
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.
Legacy
Pender Harbour
Pender Harbour is a harbour community on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. The harbour itself is an intricate amalgam of bays and coves that encroach inland for five kilometres and provide over 60 kilometres ...
, a harbour and group of communities on the
Sunshine Coast of
British Columbia
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, Canada, are named for Pender, as are
North and South Pender Islands in the
Southern Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands are a group of islands in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia.
Etymology
The name "Gulf Islands" comes from "Gulf of Georgia," the original term used by George Vancouver in his ma ...
and various placenames associated with those islands. Farther north are also a Mount Pender on
Campania Island
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and a Pender Point on
Neroutsos Inlet. The Pender Harbour area also includes a Mount Daniel, a Daniel Point and a Pender Hill; all three are parkland.
References
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Royal Navy officers
Pre-Confederation British Columbia people
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