| Bill is a self taught stonemason/artisan with over 20 years experience building quality stone projects. He began his stonemasonry career on Thetis Island after relocating to BC from Ontario. He has taught over 100 workshops for beginner stonemasons on the West Coast and in the West Kootenay. Bill's workshops give people the confidence to create beautiful stonework at their own homes. After a three year tour of BC (2005 - 2008), including stops in Trail (well known for its rich European-influenced stonebuilding history) and Quesnel in the Cariboo, he returned with his family to the West Coast in 2009. Bill taught a Job Creation Program in stonemasonry at Providence Farm in 2009, and then spent 15-months at Qwanoes Camp in Crofton creating high end cultured stone pillars around the Pacific Woods Lodge building. Summer 2011, Bill offered workshops at the old Jack Fleetwood homestead on Riverside Road in Historic Cowichan Station just south of Duncan. This area is rich in stone building history. (Left) Bill holds up one of BC Pioneer Jack Fleetwood's favourite stones. |
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| While visiting the West Kootenay in 2006, Bill was hired by the City of Trail to repair some of the old walls built by European stonemasons. In the photo (right) Bill is explaining to Eileen Truant Pedersen, how he was able to match his new stonework to the style of the European stonemasons. |
| Stonemasonry.net Bill's Profile |
| Site maintained by Kate Skye Updated Jan. 2012 feedback welcome |
| Bill currently resides in Historical Cowichan Station on Vancouver Island with his wife Kate and their dogs Kootenay and Molly. |
| Pedersen has since published Set in Stone: A history of Trail's Rock Walls This exquisite coffee table book documents Trail's "walls and their rugged beauty (which) are a unique cultural legacy to the City of Trail." |
