Our Origins
A carpenter.
A horse & wagon.
Minnesota, 1911.
In 1911, our founder's grandfather — a carpenter by trade — loaded his wife and their two young daughters onto a horse and wagon and set out from Minnesota, heading north into a Saskatchewan that was still being written into existence.
He settled in Bright Sand, Saskatchewan — a newly formed community at the forest edge, where open grassland gave way to stands of local timber. A place where a skilled man could read the raw material around him and build something permanent. Our founder's mother was born there, in that same community, after the family arrived.
The name Bright Sand is our inheritance. The instinct to look at what others discard — waste streams, tailings ponds, plastic scrap — and find the structure waiting inside it: that is our method.
"My grandfather read timber. We read waste streams. The question is always the same — what is this material capable of becoming?"Earl R. Decker, President — Bright Sand Group
