Peter Michael Edgar

Peter Michael Edgar, 87, born December 28, 1938, passed away peacefully in Duncan, BC on November 3, 2026, after a short illness. Pete grew up in Kerrisdale and went to Point Grey High School before going on to UBC where he mostly majored in playing bridge, while working nights at The Cave nightclub. Pete met his future wife Kitty in the UBC Musical Theater Society. They married and lived in a house on Richards Street with Sam the dog and Frodo the monkey. They spent evenings driving around Vancouver in Pete’s MG Midget looking for stained glass they could steal from abandoned buildings, and that he could turn into the stained glass lampshades that adorned their house. Pete worked on and piloted the Pisces II submersible, but had to give it up because it was too dangerous for a married man. He found a safer career at UBC, helping create a very early computerized system for library circulation, and he loved feeding the UBC squirrels peanuts. Pete and Kitty moved to Dunbar in 1972, where they raised their children, helped by Sam and Frodo, and then their second dog, Bailey. Pete was deeply involved in both his kids’ lives. He spent weeks every summer driving them to every tiny ghost town and undeveloped hotspring he could find in southern BC. During the school year, he was a Sea Scout leader and the leader of the Vancouver Unitarian Universalist Church Youth Group.

Pete retired to Cowichan Bay after Kitty’s death, and he threw himself into new hobbies. He drove his RV to Newfoundland and back again, and used it to explore logging roads throughout southern BC. He flew ultralight planes. He flew to Hawaii (on a commercial jet) and sailed back. He restored wooden boats. He tinkered with his second MG Midget, which he called Red Car. For eight years, he served with dedication as a Trustee of the Cowichan Bay Waterworks District Board. He loved to travel, and with his girlfriend Barb, took amazing trips to New York City, Japan and Thailand, and Australia and New Zealand. Pete really thrived in the community he found in and around Cowichan Bay: at the Cowichan Bay Maritime Center, with his Wednesday Knights, at the Waterboard, and playing Trains on Saturday nights.

Pete is predeceased by his wife Kitty (née Cruickshank), and is survived by his daughter Elizabeth (Rod), his son Scott (Taylor), his girlfriend Barb, his sister Mary (Arthur), their children and grandchildren, and by Pete’s many very good friends. He will be missed dearly.