James Allen Shields (1929 - July 16, 1996)
was a Canadian
curler and race horse owner.
He is a and a .
Shields grew up in
Sceptre, Saskatchewan, where he was a star baseball player, and was inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame. While in Saskatchewan, he attended the
University of Saskatchewan. He began curling at the age of 12 and moved to
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
in the 1950s, where he worked for
Sun Oil's land department,
and would later start up Nordic Oil. Shields was also an owner of race horses and formed Canada West Ranches with fellow curlers
Ron Northcott and
Barry Naimark
R. B. (Barry) Naimark (July 1, 1932 – December 3, 2004) was a Canadian curler. He played as lead on the Lyall Dagg rink that won the 1964 Brier and World Championship. He also played in the 1959 Macdonald Brier as the skip of the British Co ...
, plus friends Al MacDonald and
Eric Bishop. In 1979, Shields won the
Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner
The Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1975 by the Jockey Club of Canada, it is part of the Sovereign Awards program and is awarded annually to the most successful owner of Thoroughbred ...
.
He is a member of the
Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.
Shields was married to Joan and had four children, Lorie, Richard, Randy and David.
He died of cancer.
Teams
References
External links
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James Shields – Curling Canada Stats Archive
Canadian male curlers
Curlers from Saskatchewan
Curlers from Calgary
World curling champions
Brier champions
Deaths from cancer in Alberta
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Canadian baseball players
Canadian racehorse owners and breeders
Canadian oilmen
1929 births
1996 deaths
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