The Red Deer Curling Club is a

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club in

Red Deer, Alberta Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Red Deer serves central Alberta, and key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education. ...

. The club was founded ca. 1900s. The club has been operating out of its current location, the Pidherney Curling Centre (formerly the Red Deer Curling Centre) since 1953. Plans are underway to move to a larger, 12-sheet building. The club is located on 43rd Street in the central part of the city. The club hosts the annual

Red Deer Curling Classic The Prism Flow Red Deer Curling Classic is an annual bonspiel A bonspiel is a curling tournament, consisting of several games, often held on a weekend. Until the 20th century most bonspiels were held outdoors, on a frozen freshwater loch. To ...

on the

World Curling Tour The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and mixed doubles curlers in the world. History The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from J ...

every November. The club has sent one team to

the Brier The Tim Hortons Brier, or simply (and more commonly) the Brier (''french: Le Brier''), is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The current event name refers to its main sponsor (commercial), sponsor, the T ...

, in 1931 when

Robert Welliver The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, ho ...

Joseph LaFrance Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the m ...

, Jack Fulton and George Lindsay represented Alberta. They finished 4-5 (5th place). In 2011, the club won the men's side of the 2011 The Dominion Curling Club Championship.

References

Red Deer Advocate - Curling club plans 21 million rink rec centre

Official website
Curling clubs in Alberta Sport in Red Deer, Alberta