Bruce Coulter (November 19, 1927 – June 5, 2018) was a

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player and coach. He played ten seasons for the

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, winning the

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in 1949. He then went on to coach 29 seasons for the

Bishop's Gaiters The Bishop's Gaiters is the men's and women's athletic teams that represent Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The name Gaiters#In the Anglican church, Gaiter is a nickname used to refer to garments worn over the shoe and lower pa ...

. He was inducted into the

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in 1997. Coulter was also a curler, and represented Quebec at the 1957 Macdonald Brier.

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