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1928 Macdonald Brier
The 1928 Tim Hortons Brier, Macdonald Brier Tankard, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held February 28–March 2 at the Granite Club in Toronto. For the first time, a tiebreaker playoff would determine the Brier champion as Alberta, Manitoba, and Toronto all finished round robin play with 7-2 records. Team Manitoba, who was skipped by Gordon Hudson (curler), Gordon Hudson defeated both Toronto and Alberta in the playoff to win the Brier. Event Summary After a successful Brier in 1927 Macdonald Brier, 1927, the 1928 edition of the tournament was held again at the Granite Club in Toronto. For the first time, teams from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan brought their own teams to the Brier. This increased the Brier field from 8 to 10 teams, which would last until 1931. In addition, regulation games would be shortened from 14 ends to 12 ends. After a 7-0 start, it appeared that Team Manitoba would cruise to a Brier championship. But Manitoba would lose their l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the United States, U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota. Saskatchewan and Alberta are the only landlocked provinces of Canada. In 2022, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,205,119. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan’s total area of is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs and List of lakes in Saskatchewan, lakes. Residents primarily live in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern half is mostly forested and sparsely populated. Roughly half live in the province's largest city Saskatoon or the provincial capital Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina. Other notable cities include Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Melfort, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Shaw (curler)
William Shaw may refer to: Sports * Billy Shaw (born 1938), American college and professional football player * Billy Shaw (Australian footballer) (1872–1938), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne * Bill Shaw (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Bristol Rovers and Dumbarton Harp * Bill Shaw (Australian footballer) (1915–1994), Australian rules footballer for Footscray * William Shaw (cricketer) (1827–1890), English cricketer * William Shaw (footballer) (1897–?), English footballer * William Shaw (born 1902–?), English footballer for Barcelona and Northampton Town Politicians * William Shaw (Glasgow politician) (died 1937), Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party councilor * William Shaw (Illinois politician) (1937–2008), American politician * William Shaw (Irish politician) (1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League * William Shaw (New Brunswick politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Malcolm
Johnny is an English language personal name. It is usually an affectionate diminutive of the masculine given name John, but from the 16th century it has sometimes been a given name in its own right for males and, less commonly, females. Variant forms of Johnny include Johnnie, Johnney, Johnni and Johni. The masculine Johnny can be rendered into Scottish Gaelic as . Notable people and characters named Johnny or Johnnie include: People Johnny * Johnny Adams (born 1932), American singer * Johnny Aba (born 1956), Papua New Guinean professional boxer * Johnny Abarrientos (born 1970), Filipino professional basketball player * Johnny Abbes García (1924–1967), chief of the government intelligence office of the Dominican Republic * Johnny Abel (1947–1995), Canadian politician * Johnny Abrego (born 1962), former Major League baseball player * Johnny Ace (1929–1954), American rhythm and blues singer * John Laurinaitis, (born 1962) also known as Johnny Ace, American wrestler an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thistle CC
Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the planton the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles are an adaptation that protects the plant from being eaten by herbivores. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape similar to a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flower heads. The comparative amount of spininess varies dramatically by species. For example, ''Cirsium heterophyllum'' has minimal spininess while ''Cirsium spinosissimum'' is the opposite. Typically, species adapted to dry environments have greater spininess. The term thistle is sometimes taken to mean precisely those plants in the tribe Cardueae (synonym: Cynareae), especially the genera ''Carduus'', '' Cirsium'', and ''Onopordum''. However, plants outside this tribe are sometimes called thistles. Biennial thistles are particularly noteworthy for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Ormiston
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to Roy as a variant in the Francophone world. In India, Roy is a variant of the surname '' Rai'',. likewise meaning "king".. It also arose independently in Scotland, an anglicisation from the Scottish Gaelic nickname ''ruadh'', meaning "red". Given name * Roy Acuff (1903–1992), American country music singer and fiddler * Roy Andersen (born 1955), runner * Roy Andersen (South Africa) (born 1948), South African businessman and military officer * Roy Anderson (American football) (born 1980), American football coach * Sir Roy M. Anderson (born 1947), British scientific adviser * Roy Andersson (born 1943), Swedish film director * Roy Andersson (footballer) (born 1949), footballer from Sweden * Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hutchison (curler)
William Hutchison may refer to: * William Hutchison (New Zealand politician) (1820–1905), member of the New Zealand House of Representatives and mayor of Wellington * William Hutchison (pastoralist) (1841–1914), horse breeder and pastoralist in the South-East of South Australia * William Hutchison (MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove) (1870–1924), MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove, 1922–1924 * William Hutchison (MP for Romford) (1904–1975), actor and MP for Romford, 1931–1935 * William H. Hutchison (1843–1919), mill owner and political figure in Ontario * William Ramsay Hutchison (1889–1918), Scottish rugby union player * Willie Hutchison, American singer * William Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1970), artist, president of the Royal Scottish Academy * Bill Hutchison (William Henry Hutchison, 1923–1982), Australian rules footballer See also *William Hutchinson (other) *William Hutcheson William Hutcheson (February 6, 1874 – October 20, 1953) was the leader of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granite Curling Club (Montreal)
Granite Curling Club is the name of a number of curling clubs: Canada * CCA Granite Club - Cumberland, Ontario * Chatham Granite Club - Chatham, Ontario * Coaldale Granite Club - Coaldale, Alberta *Dundas Granite Curling Club - Dundas, Ontario *Granite Club - Toronto, Ontario * Granite Curling Club (Edmonton) - Edmonton, Alberta *Granite Curling Club (Winnipeg) - Winnipeg, Manitoba * Granite Curling Club of West Ottawa - Ottawa, Ontario * Grey Granite Club - Owen Sound, Ontario *Horne Granite Curling Club - New Liskeard, Ontario *Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club - Waterloo, Ontario * Mission Granite Curling Club - Mission, British Columbia * North Battleford-Granite Curling Club - North Battleford, Saskatchewan * North Bay Granite Club - North Bay, Ontario *Penticton Granite Club - Penticton, British Columbia * Saskatoon-Granite Curling Club - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan * Stayner Granite Club - Stayner, Ontario * Sturgeon Falls Granite Club - Sturgeon Falls, Ontario United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Duncan
Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Allan dos Santos Natividade), Brazilian football forward * Allan (footballer, born 1991) (Allan Marques Loureiro), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1994) (Allan Christian de Almeida), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1997) (Allan Rodrigues de Souza), Brazilian football midfielder Places * Allan, Queensland, Australia * Allan, Saskatchewan, Canada * Allan, the Allaine river's lower course, in France * Allan, Drôme, town in France * Allan, Iran (other), places in Iran Other uses * Allan, a Clan Grant split (or sept) * Ahlawat or Allan, an ethnic clan in India * ''Allan'', a 1966 film directed by Donald Shebib * "Allan" (song), a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lang (curler)
__NOTOC__ John Lang may refer to: Sportspeople * John Lang (footballer, born 1881) (1881–1934), Scottish footballer * John Lang (footballer, born 1908), Scottish footballer *John Lang (Australian rugby league) (born 1950), Australian rugby league player and coach *John Lang (New Zealand rugby league) (1896–1971), New Zealand rugby league player Musicians *John Lang (American musician) (born 1952), lyric writer for Mr. Mister and member of the band Djinn *John Lang (Rough Trade), Canadian musician with the band Rough Trade * Jonny Lang (born 1981), American blues and gospel musician Others *John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878), Presbyterian clergyman and early advocate of Australian republicanism * John Lang (Canadian politician) (1839–1921), former member of the Canadian House of Commons *Johnny Lang, historic Joshua Tree National Park cattle rancher and mining operator *John Lang (priest) (1927–2012), Anglican Dean of Lichfield *John Lang (sailor) (1794–?), sailor in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (curler)
Charles Taylor most often refers to: *Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) (born 1948), warlord and 22nd president of Liberia *Charles Taylor (philosopher) (born 1931), Canadian philosopher and social theorist Charles, Charlie, or Chuck Taylor may also refer to: Actors, comedians, and theatrical professionals * Charles Taylor (actor), American actor *Charles H. Taylor (lyricist) (1859–1907), British lyricist * Charles "Rip" Taylor (1935–2019), American actor and comedian *Charles W. Taylor (1800–1874), American actor and dramatist Journalists *Charles H. Taylor (publisher) (1846–1921), American newspaper publisher and politician * Charles P. B. Taylor (1935–1997), Canadian journalist, author, and horsebreeder * Chuck Taylor (journalist, born 1957), American journalist *Chuck Taylor (music journalist) (born 1962), American music journalist Politicians *Charles Taylor (Australian politician) (1861–1944), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Charles Tayl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
