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By JOHN NELSON
News staff
Visitors and residents of the Ottawa Valley often marvel at its scenic beauty and diversity of people. For Dub Juby those qualities have led to 20 years of transforming those scenes into wood carvings.

Mr. Juby is the Valley Woodcarver. "It's kept me going." he says modestly of what he sees in the valley but adds "I don't think I'd ever get around to doing every thing I want to do."

As an indication of just how much inspiration Mr. Juby finds in the Ottawa Valley, he turns out about one carving a day or approximately 350 a year. His carvings, for the most part, feature the people and animals of the area. Mr. Juby says the people are his favorite.

"I like doing the people," he says, taking particular satisfaction in getting a facial expression just right. 'When one turns out, it really gives you a lot of satisfaction." says Mr. Juby. "You can get a lot of little men out of a pine tree," he says. Mr. Juby's greatest satisfaction comes from the many visitors to his Castleford showroom. When thoroughly satisfied visitors pick out a carving, he knows his efforts have not been wasted.

Mr. Juby, 59, began his carving career after 20 years as a cabinet maker but says carving came to him more by accident. He says there was no television and radio so he took up whittling and kind of kept at it." The average cost of a Valley Woodcarver original is $60 but can be had for as little as $15 or as much as $600 for one of his larger than life creations.

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Newspaper article on Dub Jube
1990's
Braeside, Ontario


Credits:
John Nelson
Marianne Legris