Dear Curling Canada, Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to submit our story, with a chance, and a hope of being a contender in the 2023 Curling Story Contest. Oh, who are we kidding? We want to WIN the contest!! Let us tell you a little story about growing the game of curling in small-town Newfoundland &…
I moved to my husband’s hometown of Paris, Ontario in 2013. When we toured the house we were buying, I could see the curling club from the back deck so suggested we join. It had been seven years since I had curled, having started when I was 10 but not having been on the ice since high school. My husband…
In 2014, the Canadian Seniors Championship was hosted in Yellowknife, NWT. There were 14 senior ladies teams and 14 senior mens teams in the event. This was in the days that there was still relegation. I was part of the officiating crew for the event. There were 8 umpires in the crew from NWT, Yukon, and Alberta. We were all…
I am fairly new to curling (started just before COVID), and had no previous experience. So after playing in a league this year I was approached by a lovely lady and asked if I could fill in for a sick curler the coming weekend in a tournament. I checked my schedule and I was pleasantly surprised and excited that I…
As many of you know or not, last year I wrote a curling story for Curling Canada Day. I didn’t win the big trip but I did win a For the Love of Curling red hoodie. This year, I went to the Points Bet Invitational 2022 in Fredericton and saw 32 teams including Gushue, Jones and Erinson and more. I…
I’ve always enjoyed watching curling while I was a kid, my mother never really got it but she would always allow me to watch it and join me in screaming HURRY HARD! We grew up in poverty on assistance and never had the opportunity to play it growing up. We didn’t have much money and my mom didn’t drive so…
These were my dad’s first words upon my birth. As such, Curling has been a huge part of my life. My dad has always loved the sport. He played competitively for many years, dreaming of that fabled purple heart. And although he gave up his dream to settle down and start a family, he never lost his passion for the…
This story of pride, solidarity, and dedication was driven by a small group of volunteers who saved the club from closure. While taking advantage of the closure of our branch due to Covid, a small group of dedicated individuals combined their respective skills and experiences, especially their time, into this worthwhile project. The story is told through a document (in…
We broke a curling Guinness Book World Record! Hello, my name is Jim Paul. My curling story begins in 1982 at a curling club in Brockville Ontario. I was in my twenties and was at the curling club chatting with my friend Chris McCrady about world records. We found out that someone had broken the Guinness World Record for a…
We Rode The Stones! When I was about four or five years old, in the early 50s, we used to have two sets of Curling Stones in our cellar. There were no Curling rinks/ Clubs around our town. My father was Dr. Thomas Nugent, a small-town family Physician and Surgeon, but he came from the large port city of Saint…