BC rink bound for World Seniors in New Zealand

April 21st, 2008

Pat Sanders and her Canadian champion teammates will be headed to Dunedin, NZ, for the World Seniors next spring.

OTTAWA, April 21, 2008…The Canadian Curling Association today announced the dates and sites for the 2009 Canadian Seniors, 2009 Canadian Wheelchair and the 2010 Canadian Mixed curling championships. 

The 2009 Canadian senior men’s and women’s championships will be held, once again, at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, March 22-29.    

Prince Edward Island previously hosted the 1976 Canadian senior women’s and 1982 Canadian senior men’s, both in Charlottetown, before Summerside staged the 2006 Canadian Seniors, won that year by Ontario’s Anne Dunn and Northern Ontario’s Al Hackner, who then represented Canada at the 2007 world seniors in Edmonton, where both finished second.  

Manitoba has won a leading 10 Canadian senior men’s crowns since the event began in 1965 in Port Arthur, Ontario.   Prince Edward Island has three victories, all by skip Wen MacDonald.   Ontario has won a leading 10 women’s titles since the inaugural championship in 1973 in Ottawa, while ‘The Island’ has yet to win one, though.  The men’s and women’s events were held separately until being combined in 1985 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. 

The 2009 winners will then represent Canada at the 2010 world seniors, at a site and date to be announced.  This year’s Canadian Seniors winners, Saskatchewan’s Eugene Hritzuk and British Columbia’s Pat Sanders, who earned their titles in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in March, will carry Canada’s colours at the 2009 world seniors, scheduled for April 24-May 3, 2009 in Dunedin, New Zealand.    

The 2007 Canadian senior champions, skipped by Alberta’s Pat Ryan and Diane Foster, both won gold medals at the 2008 world seniors in March in Vierumäki, Finland.  

The 2009 Canadian Wheelchair championship will be held March 23-28 at the Lakeshore Curling Club in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.  Last month, British Columbia, skipped by Jim Armstrong, retained its national crown by edging Ontario, 8-6 in the final, held at the West Kildonan Curling Club in Winnipeg, where eight teams competed for the Canadian title. 

The 2010 Canadian Mixed will be hosted by the Burlington Golf & Country Club in Burlington, Ontario, November 15-22, 2009.  Beginning with the 2004-05 season, The Mixed was no longer part of curling’s televised Season of Champions.  As such, its annual championship was moved to November of the previous year.    

The 2008 Canadian Mixed was held in Calgary last November and won by Alberta’s Dean Ross, a leading ninth time for the province since the championship began in 1964 in Toronto.   Ontario has won the Mixed twice, in 1986 by skip Dave Van Dine in Kamloops and by skip John Epping at the 2006 renewal in Whitehorse. The 2009 Canadian Mixed will be played this November in Iqaluit, Nunavut, marking the first time a  national sport championship has been staged in the Territory.  

The 2008-09 Canadian and world curling championship calendar is now as follows: 

  • 2009 Canadian Mixed – November 9-16, 2008, Iqaluit, Nunavut 
  • 2008 Continental Cup – December 18-21, 2008, Camrose, Alberta 
  • 2009 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors – January 31-February 8, Salmon Arm, British Columbia 
  • 2009 World Wheelchair – February 21-28, Vancouver, British Columbia 
  • 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts – February 21-March 1, Victoria, British Columbia 
  • 2009 World Juniors – March 5-15, Vancouver, British Columbia 
  • 2009 Tim Hortons Brier – March 7-15, Calgary, Alberta 
  • 2009 Canada Cup – March 18-22, Yorkton, Saskatchewan 
  • 2009 World Women’s – March 21-29, Gangneung, Korea 
  • 2009 Canadian Seniors – March 22-29, Summerside, Prince Edward Island 
  • 2009 Canadian Wheelchair – March 23-28, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia 
  • 2009 Ford World Men’s – April 4-12, Moncton, New Brunswick 
  • 2009 World Mixed Doubles – April 18-26, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy 
  • 2009 World Seniors – April 24-May 3, Dunedin, New Zealand 

Danny Lamoureux 
Manager, Curling Club Development & Championship Services 
Canadian Curling Association 
ac.gnilrucnull@xueruomald 
Cell: (613) 878-3682 

Carson Ricketts 
General Manager 
Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club 
2009 Canadian Seniors 
moc.nbia.iepnull@xofrevlis 
(902) 436-2153     

Trendal M. Hubley-Bolivar & Erin Edmundson 
Event Co-Chairs
2009 Canadian Wheelchair 
moc.liamtohnull@9002-CCWC 
(902) 869-2875  

Wayne Gratton 
Curling Coordinator 
2010 Canadian Mixed 
moc.liamgnull@lrucztarg 
(905) 639-7281.