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Mayflower Curling Club
The Mayflower Curling Club is a curling club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was established in 1905. Since 1962, the club has been located at 3000 Monaghan Drive. The club is one of the premier curling rinks in Nova Scotia, being home to teams headed by Colleen Jones, Mark Dacey, Shawn Adams, and Heather Smith-Dacey. The club was host for the Curling at the 2011 Canada Winter Games, curling events during the Curling at the 2011 Canada Winter Games, 2011 Canada Winter Games. History In 1912 the club's then-premises on Agricola Street was used as a temporary morgue for the bodies of ''RMS Titanic, Titanic'' disaster victims recovered from the North Atlantic by the Halifax-based ship the ''CS Mackay-Bennett'', as it was the only site in the city that was both sufficiently large and cold enough for the task. Following the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the devastated Agricola Street rinks were rebuilt. In 2006, the Mayflower began hosting the Loose Ends Curling League, an LGBT league that is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of 2024, it is estimated that the population of the Halifax Census Metropolitan Area, CMA was 530,167, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The regional municipality consists of four former municipalities that were Amalgamation (politics), amalgamated in 1996: History of Halifax (former city), Halifax, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Bedford, and Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Halifax County. Halifax is an economic centre of Atlantic Canada, home to a concentration of government offices and private companies. Major employers include the Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), Saint Mary's University, the Halifax Shipyard, various levels of government, and the Port of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Pride Curling Championships
The Canadian Pride Curling Championships, also known as the Canadian Gay Curling Championships, is an annual national bonspiel organized by the Canadian Pride Curling Association (CPCA). First contested in 2006, by the Curling With Pride league in Edmonton, Alberta, the event features teams representing CPCA members, which are LGBTQ-friendly curling leagues across the country. History Member leagues There are fifteen leagues that are members of the CPCA, situated in twelve cities in eight out of ten Canadian provinces. The annual championship includes representatives from each city hosting member leagues, with the number of teams from any one city in a given year determined by the previous years' results. Member leagues typically hold their own playdown bonspiels to determine representatives. Toronto is home to the oldest and largest member leagues in the country; the Rotators and Riverdale leagues curl out of the Royal Canadian Curling Club in Toronto's Riverdale neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Scott Tournament Of Hearts
The 2003 Scott Tournament of Hearts was held at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, Ontario from February 15 to 23. The Colleen Jones rink returned as Team Canada, going on to win their third straight Hearts, then representing Canada at the 2003 Ford World Curling Championship where they won silver. Teams The teams were listed as follows: Map of teams Round Robin standings ''Final round robin standings'' Round Robin results All draw times are listed in Eastern Time ( UTC−05:00). Draw 1 ''Saturday, February 15, 2:30 pm'' Draw 2 ''Saturday, February 15, 7:30 pm'' Draw 3 ''Sunday, February 16, 9:30 am'' Draw 4 ''Sunday, February 16, 2:30 pm'' Draw 5 ''Sunday, February 16, 7:30 pm'' Draw 6 ''Monday, February 17, 9:30 am'' Draw 7 ''Monday, February 17, 2:30 pm'' Draw 8 ''Monday, February 17, 7:30 pm'' Draw 9 ''Tuesday, February 18, 9:30 am'' Draw 10 ''Tuesday, February 18, 2:30 pm'' Draw 11 ''Tuesday, February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Delahunt
Nancy Dale Delahunt (born January 5, 1959) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones. Career Delahunt was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was a member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) and two World Curling Championships (2001, 2004). Delahunt was a rarity among leads, because she held the broom for when Jones threw. She rejoined Jones in 2011 participating in the Nova Scotia Senior Women's Championship, along with Marsha Sobey and Sally Saunders. The team won the provincial title and would represent Nova Scotia at the Canadian Senior Women's Curling Championships. At the beginning of the 2011/2012 curling season Jones had formed a rink with three players, all of whom previously played with Theresa Breen. However Jones has modified her lineup adding Delahunt at third, Sobey at second and Mary Sue Radford (who began the season with Jones) at lead. The team has e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Anne Arsenault
Mary-Anne Arsenault (born August 19, 1968 in Scarborough, Ontario, also known as Mary-Anne Waye when she was married) is a Canadian curler from Lake Country, British Columbia. She is a five-time Canadian Champion, and two-time World Curling Champion. Arsenault has skipped her own team since 2007. Career 1999–2006 Arsenault joined up with Colleen Jones prior to the 1999 season. She had previously played with Jones, as her lead at the 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts. Together with Jones, Nancy Delahunt and Kim Kelly, the team would achieve great success, winning 5 Canadian Championships, and 2 World Championships. After a record winning 4 championships in a row, the team would struggle at the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts. Finishing round robin play, with a 6-5 record, the Jones team would end up in a four team tiebreaker. They would face Sandy Comeau of New Brunswick in the tiebreaker, where the opportunity to compete for a 5th Canadian Championship was lost, when Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly (born April 4, 1962, in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Kim Ackles) is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She currently throws skip stones for Colleen Jones, whom she has won five national championships and two world championships. In 2019, Kelly was named the eighth greatest Canadian curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers. Kelly had retired from competitive curling in 2006 but returned in 2010 playing third for Nancy Delahunt, failing to secure a spot in the provincial playdowns. She would then go on to join former teammate Mary-Anne Arsenault, playing the second position for the 2011–12 season. For the 2012–2013 season Arsenault and Kelly reunited with former skip Colleen Jones, with the goal of reaching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Jones played second, while Arsenault was skip. Jenn Baxter, played lead, while Stephanie McVicar, joined the team as the fifth. Nancy Delahunt Nancy Dale Delahunt (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Scott Tournament Of Hearts
The 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts was held at the ENMAX Centrium in Red Deer, Alberta from February 21 to 29 2004. The Colleen Jones rink returned as Team Canada, going on to win their fourth straight Hearts, then representing Canada at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championship where they won gold. Teams The teams were listed as follows: Map of teams Round robin standings ''Final round robin standings'' Round Robin results All draw times are listed in Mountain Time ( UTC−07:00). Draw 1 ''Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm'' Draw 2 ''Saturday, February 21, 6:30 pm'' Draw 3 ''Sunday, February 22, 8:30 am'' Draw 4 ''Sunday, February 22, 1:00 pm'' Draw 5 ''Sunday, February 22, 6:00 pm'' Draw 6 ''Monday, February 23, 8:30 am'' Draw 7 ''Monday, February 23, 1:00 pm'' Draw 8 ''Monday, February 23, 6:00 pm'' Draw 9 ''Tuesday, February 24, 8:30 am'' Draw 10 ''Tuesday, February 24, 1:00 pm'' Draw 11 ''Tuesday, February 24, 6:00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Harris (curler)
Robert Harris (born September 26, 1963, in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler. Harris played second for Mark Dacey's men's team from 2002 to 2007 and from 1998 to 1999. Harris also played Mixed with Dacey around this time. Harris, Dacey, third Heather Smith-Dacey and lead Laine Peters won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 2002 after having gone to the tournament the two previous years. Playing for Dacey's men's team which included Bruce Lohnes at third and Andrew Gibson at lead, Harris won three provincial championships (2003, 2004, 2006), a Brier in 2004 and a bronze medal at the World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and Doubles curling, mixed doubles championships, as ... the same year. Harris along with Dacey, Lohnes and Gibson also participated in two Continental Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Lohnes
Bruce D. Lohnes (born October 10, 1958) is a Canadian curler from Valley, Nova Scotia. Lohnes is a former Brier champion and World Championship bronze medallist. Lohnes is currently a high performance junior coach with the Nova Scotia Curling Association. Lohnes joined the Mark Dacey rink prior to the 2002-03 season, playing third on the team. Representing Nova Scotia, they would go on to win the 2004 Nokia Brier and a bronze at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championships for Canada. The team had been to three Briers together, returning in 2006, winning a bronze medal and 2009, finishing 10th. Lohnes had also been to three other Briers, but with different teams. He played third for Ragnar Kamp J. Ragnar Kamp (born April 9, 1953) is a Swedish-American curler and World Champion. He won a gold medal at the 1977 World Curling Championships for Sweden. After winning the Worlds, Kamp threatened to move to Canada, complaining of Sweden's 'h ... in 1989, third for David Jones in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Nokia Brier
The 2004 Nokia Brier, the Canadian men's curling championship was held from March 6 to 14, 2004 at Saskatchewan Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A total of 238,129 attended the event. Team Nova Scotia, who was skipped by Mark Dacey defeated Team Alberta skipped by Randy Ferbey in dramatic fashion in the championship game and preventing the Ferbey rink for capturing their fourth consecutive Brier title. Nova Scotia's title was their third and to date most recent Brier Tankard title and first title since 1951. Teams The teams were listed as follows: Map of teams Round-robin standings ''Final round-robin standings'' Round-robin results All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time ( UTC−6). Draw 1 ''Saturday, March 6, 1:00 pm'' Draw 2 ''Saturday, March 6, 6:00 pm'' Draw 3 ''Sunday, March 7, 9:00 am'' Draw 4 ''Sunday, March 7, 1:30 pm'' Draw 5 ''Sunday, March 7, 6:30 pm'' Draw 6 ''Monday, March 8, 9:00 am'' Draw 7 ''Monday, March 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Mouzar
Jillian Brothers (born May 20, 1983 as Jill Mouzar ronounced "MOW-zer" is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third on Team Christina Black. Brothers was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and now resides in Bedford, Nova Scotia. Career Brothers started curling in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her first Nova Scotia junior championship was in 2001, along with Meaghan Smart, Meghan MacAdams, Carolyn Marshall, and coach Albert Smart. This team was the first Liverpool team to curl at the national level since 1970, representing Nova Scotia at the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. In 2004, Brothers curled with Paige Mattie, Blisse Comstock, Chloe Comstock, and coach Donalda Mattie and went on to win the Canadian Junior Women's championship. That team won the silver medal at world junior championships in Trois-Rivières, Québec. In 2005 Brothers' women's team finished fourth out of eight teams at Nova Scotia women's championships in her first year of eligibility. Brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gibson (curler)
Andrew Gibson (born May 31, 1979) is a Canadian curler from Bedford, Nova Scotia. Career Career with Mark Dacey Gibson was a member of Mark Dacey's rink from 2003 to 2010. He has been to the Brier three times with Dacey (2003, 2004, 2006) winning the Brier in 2004. In 2004 he won a bronze medal at the World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and Doubles curling, mixed doubles championships, as .... Before playing for Dacey, Gibson played for Peter Eddy and had played in two Canadian Junior Curling Championships. At the 2010 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, Gibson played second for Dacey and won the event. Transition to Shawn Adams and return to Mark Dacey Gibson left Dacey's team in 2010 to play for Shawn Adams. He would return to the Brier in 2011. After the disbanding of the Adams team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
