A Note from Steve Hansen of the GVWG:
”With heavy heart, Sandy Dougal passed away recently. Sandy was a founding member of the GVWG and integral in getting us up and running. Along with six others, he was at the first executive meeting and helped to secure a meeting spot for our guild. He helped to shape the culture of the club as we know it today.
Sandy was a very fine craftsman who apprenticed as a traditional cabinet maker in Scotland after WWII. Sandy took up wood turning when he came to Canada and no doubt employed skills and a trained eye that he honed while in Scotland. He displayed and sold his fine turnings at Circle Craft, The Wood Co-op, and various community galleries in his neighbourhood.
I’ve known Sandy since about 1986 and it was at the Fraser Valley Club that we met. The two of us worked on establishing the “John Bese Award” in 1990 for the FVWG – an award traditionally bestowed to Outstanding Contributors of the Guild. That award lives on today.
Sandy was a fine man and will be missed by all that knew him.”
Steve Hansen
No details of a memorial are known at this time. [Ed.]