1976 Macdonald Lassies Championship
The 1976 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Macdonald Lassies Championship, the Canada, Canadian women's curling championship was held February 28 to March 5, 1976, at Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Despite a transit strike, attendance for the event exceeded 17,000. Alberta and British Columbia both finished round robin play tied for first with 7–2 records, necessitating a tiebreaker playoff between the two teams. Team British Columbia, who was Skip (curling), skipped by Lindsay Davie defeated Alberta 7–6 in the tiebreaker to capture the championship. This was BC's third title overall and their first since . This would also be the first of three titles for Davie (later Sparkes) with the first two coming as a skip. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Standings ''Final round robin standings'' Tiebreaker https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19760306&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Montreal Gazette, March 6, 1976, page 17 References External linksCovera ...
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ...
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