Author Archive for: Dustin

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Pat Sanders

In 1987, the Pat Sanders Rink, from the Racquet Club of Victoria, won the BC, Canadian, and world women’s curling championships. Pat Sanders and Louise Herlinveaux were seasoned veterans in the sport of curling, members of the Steve Skillings Rink that captured the 1985 Canadian mixed curling title. In 1987, the two women teamed with […]

Rae Moir

In February of 1988, Linda and her team became the first Canadian curlers to win gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games. The Olympic success marked the end of an outstanding playing career for the North Vancouver native which included appearances at the 1984, 1984 and 1986 Scott Tournament of Hearts which was highlighted by […]

Ralph S. Boyd

Ralph Boyd, an avid curler, was a founding member of both the Comox Valley and Campbell River Curling Clubs. He served as President of the Campbell River Curling Club, Vancouver Island Curling Association, Pacific Coast Curling Association and the Canadian Curling Association. Ralph was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1987 under […]

Reg Stone

Reg Stone and his brother Roy were considered the “Curling Ambassadors of BC” throughout Canada because of their good sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct. With Reg as skip and Roy as second or third, the pair competed at the local, regional, and national level. Both brothers were elected to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in […]

Renee Simons

After winning the Canadian championships and finishing third at the worlds the previous year, the Scott Rink approached the 2006-07 season determined to defend their Canadian crown and return to the worlds. At the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, as Team Canada the Scott Rink battled through the round robin and defeated Saskatchewan’s Jan Betker […]

Richard D. (Rick) Folk

Rick Folk and his Kelowna Curling Club teammates Pat Ryan, Bert Gretzinger, Gerry Richard, and team alternate, Ron Steinhauer, captured the BC, Canadian, and world men’s curling titles during the 1993-94 season. Folk’s rink went into the 1994 BC championships as the top-ranked rink in the Interior Division. After winning the provincial title (the Labatt […]

Richard T. (Dick) Topping

Richard Topping of Oliver, British Columbia was a president of the Canadian Dominion Curling Association and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1976. Richard was CCA President from 1963 to 1964

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Robin Wilson (Klassen)

During the late 1970s, skip Lindsay ‘Davie’ Sparks—representing North Vancouver’s North Shore Winter Club—led her team of third Dawn Knowles, second Robin Wilson and lead Lorraine Bowles to two national women’s titles. In 1976, after finishing in a tie at 7-2 with former two-time champion Gale Lee of Alberta, Sparkes won in a sudden-death playoff. […]

Ron Steinhauer

Rick Folk and his Kelowna Curling Club teammates Pat Ryan, Bert Gretzinger, Gerry Richard, and team alternate, Ron Steinhauer, captured the BC, Canadian, and world men’s curling titles during the 1993-94 season. Folk’s rink went into the 1994 BC championships as the top-ranked rink in the Interior Division. After winning the provincial title (the Labatt […]

Roy Stone

Roy Stone and his brother Reg were considered the “Curling Ambassadors of BC” throughout Canada because of their good sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct. With Reg as skip and Roy as second or third, the pair competed at the local, regional, and national level. Both brothers were elected to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in […]

Sasha Carter

After winning the Canadian championships and finishing third at the worlds the previous year, the Scott Rink approached the 2006-07 season determined to defend their Canadian crown and return to the worlds. At the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, as Team Canada the Scott Rink battled through the round robin and defeated Saskatchewan’s Jan Betker […]

Sonja Gaudet

Canada’s most decorated wheelchair curler is showing no signs of slowing down. Gaudet has won gold medals at the past two Paralympic Winter Games, playing lead both times (in 2006 at Torino, Italy with skip Chris Daw and in 2010 at Vancouver with skip Jim Armstrong). Gaudet won her third world wheelchair curling championship gold […]