British Columbia History

Artist Commemorates Abbotsford History

 Manjit Singh Sandhu, MS352

Clearbrook artist Manjit Singh Sandhu is obsessed with history, especially Fraser Valley history. He has painted over 300 paintings of Abbotsford history alone. His work began in the lead-up to the 100-year celebration of the Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford in 2011 as a tribute to the Trethewey family of Abbotsford and their century-old support of Sunder Singh Thandi and his dream of building a Sikh temple. Thandi was one of the early Sikh pioneers who came to

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