Accomplishments: Canadian Men’s Brier Curling Champions, 1955. The Garnet Campbell Curling team made history in 1955 as the first Saskatchewan team to win the Canadian Brier Men’s Curling Championship. Keeping it within the family, the team consisted of four brothers Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian High School Boys Curling Champions, 1955. Following their success in 1954, new team members Merv Mann and Gary Stevenson replaced Don Snyder and Don Brownell as Bayne Secord went on another run to secure his second Canadian championship. Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian High School Boys Curling Champions, 1954. Saskatoon Technical Collegiate, led by coach, Ken Moir, won 5 Saskatchewan and 4 Canadian Curling Championships in the 1950s. Bayne Secord skipped the 1954 and 1955 teams to provincial championships and on Read more →
Accomplishments: Western Canadian Ladies’ Curling Champions, 1953. The foursome from the Regina Callie Club composed of Joyce Miller as lead, Jean Graham at second, Phyllis Day at third and skip, Janet Perkin were the Regina representatives in provincial competition in Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian High School Boys Curling Champions, 1952 Between 1950 and 1952 the Gary Thode Saskatoon Technical Collegiate curling team dominated the High School Boys’ curling scene, first in Saskatoon, and then across the nation. After being successful in 1951, Read more →
Accomplishments: Canadian High School Boys Curling Champions, 1951. Between 1950 and 1952 the Gary Thode Saskatoon Technical Collegiate curling team dominated the High School Boys’ curling scene, first in Saskatoon, and then across the nation. In 1950, Gary Thode, Gary Read more →
Accomplishments: Western Canadian Men’s Curling Champions and Western Representatives at the first Macdonald Brier, 1927. This Yellow Grass foursome represented not only Saskatchewan, but all provinces West of Ontario at the first MacDonald’s brier held in Toronto in 1927. Instead Read more →
Muriel Youngson joined the Caledonian Ladies Curling Club in 1931. In both 1943 and 1945, she won the Grand Aggregate in the Regina Ladies Bonspiel. Youngson was elected president of the Caledonian Ladies Curling Club in 1945, 1946, and 1947, Read more →
Les Youngson won the Provincial title in 1936, and competed in the Macdonald Brier in Toronto. He won the South Saskatchewan Championships in 1943 and 1948 and over the years competed in bonspiels throughout Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He curled in Read more →
Roy Thiessen’s involvement as a builder spans the spectrum of sports. In curling, he coached provincial and national teams to championship laurels. Volleyball, cross-country skiing, and track and field at the civic and provincial levels have been enhanced by his Read more →
Ernie Richardson skipped the all-Richardson rink of brother, Sam; cousins, Wes and Arnold to the 1959 Canadian Men’s Curling Championship and the first World Curling title also in 1959. The World’s were played in Scotland. Ernie successfully retained both the Read more →
In 1973, Eva Kerr skipped the Saskatchewan ladies’ team at the first Canadian Senior Ladies Curling Championship in Ottawa, placing third. Eva was a charter member of the Regina Ladies Curling Club (RLCC), serving as president from 1959 to 1960. Read more →
A natural sports talent, William Dunbar competed in hockey, athletics, rugby and baseball, but was best known for his curling exploits. Dunbar skipped his Saskatchewan rink to a second place finish at the 1940 MacDonald Brier. Dunbar was the first Read more →
Saskatchewan has a history of producing national and world champion curling athletes and highly respected officials and administrators. Among the names synonymous with curling in Saskatchewan is Norm Balderston. Balderston’s relationship with the “roaring game” began like most others, as Read more →
Laurie Artiss’ name has been associated with curling in Saskatchewan since his arrival from Manitoba in 1965. Having first served as a sports writer with the Winnipeg Tribune and athletic director in Dauphin and Virden, Manitoba, Laurie then came to Read more →