Curl Moncton
Curl Moncton | |
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Location | 80 Lockhart Ave.[1] Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada |
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Established | 1881 (MCA) |
Club type | Dedicated Ice |
Curling Canada region | NBCA |
Sheets of ice | 5 |
Rock colours | Blue and Yellow |
Website | curlmoncton |
Curl Moncton Inc. is a curling club in Moncton, New Brunswick.
History
[edit]Curl Moncton traces its history back to the founding of the Moncton Curling Association (MCA) in 1881, and was located on Lower Lutz Street. The club was moved to Mechanic Street in 1903, but was destroyed in a fire in 1915. The club was then rebuilt on Lutz Street.[2]
Curl Moncton itself was formed in 2011 when the Beaver Curling Club and the Curling Beauséjour merged. The MCA joined Curl Moncton in 2013, when Curl Moncton purchased its site on Lutz Street to gain access to equity.[3] The move was controversial, as it involved evicting the Humanity Project, which had been using the facility to help house and feed the homeless population.[4] Using the equity from the sale, the club was expanded from five sheets to ten in 2019 at the cost of $2.7 million.[3] The City of Moncton granted $66,000 to the club to keep afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] In 2022, the club only put in five sheets of ice, renting the other half of the ice shed to the Greater Moncton Pickelball Association.[6]
The Beaver Curling Club was founded in 1946 by a number of members for the MCA, becoming the city's second curling club. The Beauséjour Curling Club (later renamed Curling Beauséjour) was built in 1957, planned by the Le Cercle Acadien organization. Discussions began to merge the clubs in 2009.[7]
Provincial champions
[edit]Teams from Moncton clubs have won the following men's and women's provincial championships:
Men's
[edit]Winners of the New Brunswick Tankard:
Women's
[edit]Winners of the New Brunswick Scotties Tournament of Hearts:
National champions
[edit]Teams from Moncton clubs have won the following national championships:
Event | Year | Team | Club |
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Women's | 1963 | Mabel DeWare, Harriet Stratton, Forbis Stevenson, Marjorie Fraser | Beaver |
Mixed | 1994 | Grant Odishaw, Heather Smith, Rick Perron, Krista Smith | Beaver |
Club | 2022 | Shaelyn Park, Krista Flanagan Lynn LeBlanc, Shannon Tatlock | Curl Moncton |
References
[edit]- ^ "Connect". Curl Moncton. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "Moncton Curlers' Association building up for sale". CBC. November 4, 2015. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ a b "Hurry hard! Curl Moncton club doubles in size". CBC. March 12, 2019. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "Curl Moncton says it has tentatively sold former MCA building". Global News. April 7, 2017. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "Moncton bails out curling club so it can pay bills, continue operating". CBC. July 20, 2021. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "SURPRISE! (Or not? 🤣) / Surprise! Ou pas? 🤣)". Facebook. Curl Moncton. October 25, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ "History". Curl Moncton. Retrieved 2022-12-18.