Hailing from Scotland, Frank’s mother, from the 60’s for many years, bred and showed Standard Smooth & Long-Haired Dachschunds, and Elizabeth was a professional groomer who also raised Labrador Retriever’s and Miniature Poodles.

After arriving in Canada, Garshangan Kennels was established in 1973, by Frank and his late wife – Elizabeth.

At that time, it was decided to have a ‘larger’ breed of dog, and St. Bernards were ‘chosen’!

Over the next few years, many St.Bernards were shown to their championships and in 1984, the ‘goal’ was reached by winning the National Specialty with a ‘home-grown’ Smooth female St. Bernard. That year, the Labrador Retriever came back into the kennel with the purchase of Balcroft Ovation Garshangan from Balcroft kennels. Shortly after that there came from the extremely successful Ebonylane Kennels, Ch. Ebonylane’s Denis V Garshangan, (a.k.a.Dennis) who was from Am.Cdn. Ch. Hollyhock’s Sam ex Am.Cdn.Ebonylane’s Uptown Girl. After many years of driving around the country in Frank’s van, Dennis live to a ripe old age of 14 years.

Being a groomer with a passion for smaller long-haired dogs, Elizabeth decided to look at another breed, and a Wheaten Terrier was brought in from Angie Debruyn’s Mariner Kennels. This dog was Mariner’s Ailish Garshangan and she lived to a ripe old age of 15 years

Through all of the years in a busy ‘doggy’ house, there was one ‘other’ breed that seemed to ‘hang around’ and that was the Doberman Pinscher. Every Dobie in the KW area that needed ‘help’ seemed to find its way to Frank & Liz’s kennel. As the breeding of St. Bernard’s started to ‘wind down’ – the Dobermans began to find a way into the Wright’s hearts.

Upon acquiring Murmar’s Olivia V Garshangan – the Wrights started to compete in obedience & produce the occasional litter of Dobermans.

The “Queen” of the house today is Olivia’s daughter, Garshangan’s Daddy’s Girl CD,CGC (Xena) and she has taken over Denis’s spot, riding around in the van with Frank.

Xena has had 2 litters, the first with Ch. A’monds Volcano produced 2 champions, Ch. Garshangan’s Cover Girl (Claudia) & Ch. Garshangan’s  Red Hot Chilipepa ,C.D. (Kenya), who achieved her CD at 10 months of age.  Her second litter by Ch. Liberator’s Valentino, produced 4 champions – Ch. Garshangan’s Legendary Torque, Ch. Garshangan’s Legendary Dyna, Ch. Garshangan’s Next Top Model & Ch. Garshangan’s Cassandra.

We feel quite honoured to have been able to use such a great stud dog as ‘Legend’ - this has brought us ‘light years’ into the breed.

Recently, we bred one of our females, Ch. Garshangan’s Next Top Model to Ch. Liberator’s Without Remorse, and again we have been extremely pleased with this combination – the future looks ‘quite bright’ at Garshangan Kennels.

That’s about us!