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Curling Canada serves as the sanctioning body of the sport in the country, it is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling associations throughout the country, and it regulates and organizes Canada's national championships in the sport.
Mar 26, 2024 · The answer, of course, is curling, but the people of Saskatchewan are so invested in the game that it feels like a pillar of the province's culture. Curling Canada says Scottish miners...
Curling in Canada has always been aligned, historically, with the military, and their early offshoot, the police force. It was the military that brought curling to Canada, and early accounts of the game are replete with references to Colonel Smith or Major Jones or the Commissioner of Police.
- Scottish Heritage
- First Clubs in Canada
- A Canadian Game
- Curling in The West
- The Brier
- Men’s World Championship
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- Scotties Tournament of Hearts
- Women’s World Championship
Although there is some artistic and etymological evidence from the 16th century in the Low Countries of Europe pointing to a similar ice game, most authorities agree that curling as we know it today was codified in Scotland and exported from there in organized form. Certainly the origins and early evolution of this sport in Canada were due to the c...
Some historians have suggested, without documentation, that curling began on the North American continent among Scottish soldiers during the Seven Years' War of 1756–63. Curling certainly occurred informally before 1800, until a group of Scots who were identified chiefly with the fur trade formed the Montréal Curling Club in 1807, described as the ...
Despite the dominating Scottish influence, other nationalities participated from an early date. Because a Canadian-born curler, William Reynolds, had won the Denham Medal in 1843, a Toronto newspaper claimed: "Curling may now be considered in this Province a Canadian rather than a Scottish game." Similar sentiments were expressed in Québecin 1861 w...
By 1910, almost every town in the West had an arena, and Winnipeg was the acknowledged curling centre of Canada. In 1950, it had more curling clubs than Montréal and Toronto combined; and Manitoba had more clubs than Ontario and Québec. The Flin Flon club was the largest in the world, with more than 50 rinks. During the 1940s, outdoor curling with ...
By the 1920s, curling enthusiasts had begun to organize nationwide competitions. A Dominion championship competition was inaugurated in 1927, sponsored by the W. D. Macdonald Co, for a trophy known as the Brier (the first Brier champion was Murray Macneill of Nova Scotia). This annual event gave curling a significant impetus and became one of the m...
In 1959, there was added incentive to win the Brier. For the first time, the Brier champion would represent Canada internationally. The World Championship, known initially as the “Scotch Cup,” was a five-game series between Canada and Scotland. Richardson’s curling rink from Saskatchewan won the first two Scotch Cups in dominating fashion, winning ...
The copious quantities of whisky said to be consumed at bonspiels apparently delayed the participation of women in curling, but in 1894, the first ladies' curling club was formed in Montréal. Before 1900 there were several women's clubs in Eastern and Western Canada, and curling was soon established as a sport for both sexes and almost all ages.
However, it would take over half a century for women to have their own national curling championship. The first Canadian National Women’s Curling Championship was played in 1960 in Oshawa, ON. The event took place 33 years after the first Canadian National Men’s Curling Championship in Toronto. For the first year, the Western Canadian champion was ...
In 1982, a new era in women’s curling began when Scott Paper became the primary sponsor of the national women’s curling championship. The new event was initially known as the Scott Tournament of Hearts before a name change was made in 2007 to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. According to curling historian Doug Maxwell, “the Scott Tournament of He...
The first Women’s World Curling Championship took place in 1979 with Gaby Casanova of Switzerland capturing the title. Marj Mitchell’s rink from Saskatchewan became the first Canadian team to win the Women’s World Curling Championship in 1980. Just three years later, Mitchell died of cancer at age 35. (Since 1998, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts ...
Jan 7, 2016 · The Bruegel paintings I asked Warren about are by Pieter Bruegel, a Dutch Renaissance painter. The two oil paintings, Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap and The Hunters in the Snow, appear to depict curling in its earliest form. Both paintings are from 1565.
Kevin Martin is the most decorated curler in Canadian history. His record as a skip started in 1985 as the Junior Men’s Alberta Champion. Kevin is a three-time Olympian and double medalist, having won the gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and a silver medal in 2002.
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