The Chatham Granite Club is a historic 5-sheet
curling
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club in
Chatham, Ontario, Canada. It is located in downtown Chatham on William Street North.
History
The Chatham Granite was founded in 1862 as the Chatham Curling Club. For the first 30 years, the club played on the
Thames River
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. In 1892, they settled at the club's current location, and a new building was built in 1903. Artificial ice was installed in 1929 when the curling rink was remodeled into a skating, hockey and curling arena. In 1939, the club was renovated into just a curling rink.
In 1965 a new arena structure was built out of British Columbia
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, as it is seen today. In 1970 a new urethane pad under the ice was installed. In 1977 a new addition was completed at a cost of $180,000, locker rooms and the upstairs bar and lounge were enlarged by 15 feet. This allowed for the construction of a board room, a new bar, as well as a professional kitchen facility. The club has five sheets of curling ice, lockers on the main level and a lounge upstairs that was refurbished in 2017.
Success
The Chatham Granite Club has sent two teams to
the Brier
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The w ...
, in
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025
* January 2 – Luis ...
and
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
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when
Peter Gilbert won the
Provincial championships. Peter Gilbert is the oldest curler to ever compete at the Brier, at the age of 73.
The club was the first winner of
The Dominion Curling Club Championships
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(men's division) in 2009.
Provincial championships
* 2015 – John Young Jr, Brett DeKoning, Graeme Robson, Jaques Van Bilsen: Silver Tankard Provincial Champions
*2015 – Dale Kelly, Mark Patterson Ed De Schutter, Blair Willert: Silver Tankard Provincial Champions
* 2014 – John Young Jr., Ken Baute, Ben Curtis, Jaques Van Bilsen: Best Western Intermediate Men's
* 2012 – John Young Jr., Ed DeSchutter, Graeme Robson, Andrew Willemsma: Colts
* 2009 – Robert Stafford, Ben Curtis, Mark Patterson, Ed DeSchutter:
Provincial and national curling club champions
* 1988 – Brian DeRooy, Bev Dekoning, Peter Dekoning, Eileen DeRooy: Mixed
* 1987 – Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnell, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
* 1986 – Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnell, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
* 1985 – Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnell, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
* 1982 – Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnell, Doris Cowan, Pat Jones: Women's Seniors
* 1975 – Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnell, Dot DeKoning, Ruth Robertson: Women's Seniors
* 1953 – Peter Gilbert,
Gordon Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, Jim Harrington: Men's
* 1949 – Peter Gilbert, Gordon Gilbert, Don Painter, John DeKoning: Men's
References
External links
*{{official website, https://chathamgraniteclub.org/
1862 establishments in Canada West
Chatham-Kent
Curling clubs in Ontario
Sports clubs and teams established in 1862