Cam Frenette
Carpentry Instructor
Cam attended VIU for all four years of his Carpentry training to achieve his Red Seal in the trade. Before teaching at VIU, Cam had a brief stint teaching elementary school.
The majority of Cam's experience in Carpentry was with a large local contractor. He has worked in residential and commercial framing and concrete forming. Cam has built houses, apartments, cabins, schools, commercial retail space and has worked on many other projects but his favourite thing to build is concrete stairs.
Coming from a family of carpenters, Cam has had an awesome opportunity to be raised and mentored in the trade by his own family. His father and older brother are carpenters and Cam still loves finding time to work alongside them. He also acknowledges that he has been really lucky to mentored by some great carpenters at a local contracting firm.
The Carpentry program at VIU covers so many different topics and aspects of the trade. Every day Cam gets to see new carpenters gain understanding of topics that they have never heard of before. The future carpenters that Cam teaches every day are reaching mental milestones during every class and Cam says that is an incredible thing to be a part of.
Email: Cameron.Frenette@viu.ca
Andrew MacLeod
Carpentry Instructor
Andrew MacLeod, a Red Seal carpenter, has worked in the building industry since 2001. He has worked for several companies and runs his own construction company, MacLeod Carpentry. Andrew has been teaching carpentry since 2017. He's taught carpentry in the indigenous communities Kyuquot, Ty-histanis and Mowachaht/Muchalaht on Vancouver Island. He now teaches at Vancouver Island University.
Email: Andrew.MacLeod@viu.ca