Related Research Articles
The Brier, known since 2023 as the Montana's Brier for sponsorship reasons, is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The Brier has been held since 1927, traditionally during the month of March.
Bernard Leslie Sparkes is a former world champion curler.
The Canadian Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament held to determine the best junior-level curling team in Canada. Junior level curlers must be under the age of 21 as of June 30 in the year prior to the tournament.
Victor "Vic" Rauter is a Canadian sportscaster for TSN, having joined the network in 1985. Rauter has anchored TSN's curling coverage for more than 25 years, providing play-by-play curling commentary for the Season of Champions on TSN, including events such as the Tim Hortons Brier, Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and the World Curling Championships. He lives in Orillia, Ontario.
George Maxwell Bell was a Canadian newspaper publisher, race horse owner and philanthropist. He was best known as the co-founder of FP Publications, Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in the 1960s. He built his newspaper empire after inheriting the Calgary Albertan, and its $500,000 debt, from his father in 1936. He repaid the debt by 1945 and proceeded to purchase papers across the country, including the Ottawa Journal and The Globe and Mail. Much of Bell's fortune was built on Alberta's burgeoning oil and gas industry. He formed several companies in the late 1940s which came to be worth millions of dollars when sold.
Ronald Charles Northcott,, nicknamed "The Owl", was a Canadian three-time national and world curling champion and a Hall of Fame member.
The Players' Championship is one of the final events on the World Curling Tour (WCT) and is a part of the Grand Slam of Curling.
The Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic is an annual women's World Curling Tour event held at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. It was the first Grand Slam event of the season from 2006 to 2014, but is no longer considered one of the official Grand Slams.
Norman Edwin William Clarke was a professional Canadian football player who played both defensive tackle and offensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1951 through 1964. Clarke also was a curler, and won the inaugural Canadian schoolboy championships for Saskatchewan in 1950.
George Karrys is a Canadian retired curler and journalist. He won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano with Mike Harris, Richard Hart, and Collin Mitchell.
The Viterra Saskatchewan Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the annual Saskatchewan provincial women's curling championship. The winning team represents Saskatchewan at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the national women's championship. The bonspiel is organized by CURLSASK, the provincial curling association.
The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, dedicated to the preservation and history of sports within the province. It was created in 1957 by the Alberta Amateur Athletic Union (AAAU). The museum was eventually taken over by Sport Alberta in 1973 when the AAAU ceased operations. It has been maintained by the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Society since 1997. The first permanent display for the Hall of Fame was established in Edmonton in 1962. The museum relocated between Edmonton and Calgary on numerous occasions until settling in Red Deer in 1999.
George Achtymichuk is a Canadian former curler. He played second on the 1973 Brier Champion team, representing Saskatchewan. They later went on to win second place at the World Championships of that year.
Neil William "Woody" Houston is a Canadian curler.
Gerald Chick is a Canadian-Australian curler and curling coach. He is originally from Winnipeg. As of 1996, he was living in Melbourne. He moved to Australia in 1990, and joined the Australian team as their coach, until he was eligible to curl for the country in 1992.
Dave Dryburgh was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan.
John Arthur Sullivan was a Canadian journalist and writer. He worked for The Canadian Press from 1929 to 1975, where he served as the sports editor for 27 years, and covered the Olympic Games, the Stanley Cup, the Commonwealth Games, and the Grey Cup. He amassed background information on players, coaches, when no previous database had existed, which was subsequently used as a reference by sports media across Canada. He later served as the head researcher for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in preparation for coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was inducted into the builder category of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1983, and was posthumously inducted into the Football Reporters of Canada section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1994.
Maurice Douglas Burnet Smith was an England-born Canadian journalist. He began working for the Winnipeg Free Press in 1927, became a sports journalist in 1930, then served as the paper's sports editor from 1944 to 1976. He wrote a regular sports column titled "Time Out", and frequently reported on baseball, ice hockey, curling, and Canadian football. He helped establish the Canadian High School Curling Championships in 1951, and was the founding president of the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in 1955. He covered 33 consecutive Grey Cup championships before retirement, then served on the selection committees of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He was made a life member of the Manitoba Curling Association in 1970, inducted into the Football Reporters of Canada section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1982, and was posthumously inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987.
Harold Bjorn Sigurdson was a Canadian sports journalist. He started writing for the Winnipeg Free Press in 1951, then covered the Canadian Football League as a writer, television commentator, and radio host. He became the sports editor of The Albertan in 1964, then served as the assistant sports editor of the Vancouver Sun from 1966 to 1976, where he covered the National Hockey League. He returned to Winnipeg as sports editor of the Free Press from 1976 to 1989, and reported on hockey in Manitoba and the World Hockey Association. He also wrote the "Down Memory Lane" series of sports histories, and retired in 1996. He was named to the roll of honour of the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, and was inducted into the media sections of both the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Dorenda Alene Bailey better known as Dorenda Schoenhals is a Canadian curler. She is a former Canadian women's, mixed and university champion.
References
- ↑ "Here and There". Calgary Herald. September 21, 1957. p. 18. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "In 37 years, he's seen a lot". Calgary Albertan. March 11, 1978. p. 22. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Power Plays". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. June 5, 1958. p. 16. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Hall of fame beckons Wood". Calgary Herald. February 27, 2002. p. 53. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "CURLING". Regina Leader-Post. May 16, 1983. p. 18. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Rest of team". Vancouver Sun. January 15, 1998. p. 65. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Pebbles". Regina Leader-Post. October 27, 1994. p. 15. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Curling babe causes stir". Edmonton Journal. March 15, 2005. p. D2. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "How does one become The Curling Guy?". The Curling Guy. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "George Karrys". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "Sports Illustrated and The Curling News Join Forces". Sports Illustrated. November 30, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
