Canadian Senior Curling Championships | |
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Established | 1965 (men) 1973 (women) |
2024 host city | Moncton, New Brunswick |
2024 arena | Curl Moncton |
Current champions (2024) | |
Men | Saskatchewan |
Women | Alberta |
Current edition | |
The Canadian Senior Curling Championships are an annual bonspiel held to determine the national champions in senior curling for Canada. Seniors are defined as being people over the age of 50. The championship teams play at the World Senior Curling Championships the following year.
The event's first committee was established in October 1964. [1] Frank Sargent was an original member of the senior championship committee, and believed the event would attract former Brier competitors and give seniors a place to compete which had not existed. [2] The inaugural Canadian Seniors Curling Championship was hosted in Port Arthur in March 1965. It used a minimum age of 55 for competitors, and had the Seagram Company as its title sponsor. [3]
A playoff was added in 1988
Province | Titles by province |
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Ontario | 13 |
Manitoba | 12 |
Alberta | 10 |
Saskatchewan | 9 |
British Columbia | 3 |
New Brunswick | 3 |
Prince Edward Island | 3 |
Nova Scotia | 2 |
Quebec | 2 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 1 |
Northern Ontario | 1 |
Year | Team | Winning skip | Host |
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1973 [31] | British Columbia | Ada Calles | Ottawa, Ontario |
1974 [32] | British Columbia | Flora Martin | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
1975 [33] | British Columbia | Flora Martin | Swift Current, Saskatchewan |
1976 | Alberta | Hadie Manley | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
1977 | British Columbia | Vi Tapella | Peace River, Alberta |
1978 | Alberta | Hadie Manley | St. John's, Newfoundland |
1979 | British Columbia | Flora Martin | Vernon, British Columbia |
1980 | British Columbia | Flora Martin | Fredericton, New Brunswick |
1981 | Alberta | Bea Mayer | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
1982 | Nova Scotia | Verda Kempton | Montreal, Quebec |
1983 | Manitoba | Mabel Mitchell | Guelph, Ontario |
1984 | Saskatchewan | Ev Krahn | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
1985 [24] | Saskatchewan | Ev Krahn | Yorkton, Saskatchewan |
1986 | Saskatchewan | Ev Krahn | Portage la Prairie, Manitoba |
1987 | Nova Scotia | Verda Kempton | Prince George, British Columbia |
A playoff was added in 1988
Province | Titles by province |
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Ontario | 11 |
Saskatchewan | 11 |
British Columbia | 8 |
Alberta | 8 |
Nova Scotia | 5 |
Quebec | 3 |
Manitoba | 2 |
Northern Ontario | 2 |
New Brunswick | 1 |
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