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Lauren Rajala
Lauren Rajala (born September 30, 2002 in Garson, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. She was Canada's flag bearer at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. Early life Rajala began curling at the age of 7 with her father, Brian at the Falconbridge Curling Club. Career Junior career Rajala is a three-time Northern Ontario U18 champion and a two-time U21 (Junior) champion. She won U18 titles on teams skipped by Bella Croisier in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The Croisier rink also played in the 2018 Northern Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they lost all four of their matches. Their win at the 2018 U18 Northern Ontario championship qualified them to represent the region at the 2018 Canadian U18 Curling Championships. There, the team went 4–3. The team had much more success at the 2019 Canadian U18 Curling Championships, going on to win the gold medal. The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario. Months before winning the 2019 U18 title, the team represented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garson, Ontario
Nickel Centre (1996 census population 13,017) was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000. It was created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1, 2001, the town and the Regional Municipality were dissolved and amalgamated into the city of Greater Sudbury. The town is now divided between Wards 7 and 9 on Greater Sudbury City Council, and is represented by councillors Mike Jakubo and Deb McIntosh. In the Canada 2011 Census, the Garson-Falconbridge corridor within Nickel Centre was counted as part of the ''population centre'' (or urban area) of Sudbury, while the census tracts corresponding to the former boundaries of Nickel Centre had a population of 13,232. In the Canada 2016 Census, the boundaries of the Sudbury population centre were revised to retain Garson but exclude Falconbridge, while a new population centre was added for Coniston (population 1,814). Communities Coniston Coniston was a part of the geographic Neelon Township, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Ladouceur
Isabelle Ladouceur (born c. 2000) is a Canadian curler. She is a former Canadian U18 champion, and skipped the Canadian junior team at the 2021 World Junior Curling Championships. Career Junior Ladouceur played in the 2016 Nova Scotia Junior Championships, losing in the final to Mary Fay. At the 2017 and 2018 provincial juniors, her team failed to make the playoffs. In 2018, Ladouceur and her U-18 team of Emilie Proulx, Makayla Harnish, Elsa Nauss and Kate Callaghan became the youngest ever team to qualify for the Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, as the age limit was eliminated two years prior. At the 2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the team went win less, going 0–7. A few months later, the team represented Nova Scotia at the 2018 Canadian U18 Curling Championships. The team beat Saskatchewan 4–3 in the final to claim the championship. In 2019, her team lost in the Nova Scotia Junior final to Kaitlyn Jones. Ladouceur moved to Ontario to attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasalle Secondary School
Lasalle Secondary School is located in the New Sudbury neighbourhood of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. It offers both the English and French Immersion programs. There are three different Specialist High Skills Majors (SHSMs) available to students at Lasalle: Energy, Business and Sports. As well, the school offers a specialized program called The Sport and Healthy, Active Living (SHAL) program. The school is part of the Rainbow District School Board. As of 2019, 971 full-time equivalent students are enrolled at the school. The students and its mascot are referred to as Lancers. Administration There have been many changes in the top administration of the school in recent years. : As of Monday, October 29, 2007, Principal Ada Della Penta was promoted to superintendent. Vice-principal Craig Runciman was promoted to acting principal until August 31, 2007, and teacher Cheryl Geoghegan was promoted to acting vice-principal. See also *List of high schools in Ontario The following is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Ontario Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2024 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 22 to 26 at FlightExec Centre in Dorchester, Ontario. The winning Danielle Inglis represented "Ontario–Inglis" at the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship in Calgary, Alberta. The event was held in conjunction with the 2024 Ontario Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship. Both events are held together in non-Olympic years. Qualification process Twelve teams qualified for the 2024 Ontario Scotties. The top four southern Ontario teams on the Canada Team Ranking System as of December 18, 2023 qualified, as well as the next four teams based based on points accumulated in Ontario only events (Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, KW Fall Classic, AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, Stu Sells Tankard, Players Open, Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel, North Grenville Women's Fall Curling Classic, Stu Sells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guelph
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it. Guelph began as a settlement in the 1820s, established by Scotsman John Galt, who was in Upper Canada as the first Superintendent of the Canada Company. He based the headquarters, and his home, in the community. The area – much of which became Wellington County – had been part of the Halton Block, a Crown Reserve for the Six Nations Iroquois. Galt would later be considered as the founder of Guelph. For many years, Guelph ranked at or near the bottom of Canada's crime severity list. However, the 2017 Crime Severity Index showed a 15% increase from 2016. Guelph has been noted as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Manitoba Scotties Tournament Of Hearts
The 2023 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME, the provincial women's curling championship for Manitoba, was held from January 25 to 29 at East St. Paul Arena in East St. Paul, Manitoba. The winning Jennifer Jones represented Manitoba at the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship in Kamloops, British Columbia where they finished runner-up overall losing in the final to Team Canada 10–4. Additionally, two other rinks qualified for the Scotties as wild card teams based on CTRS standings. The Kaitlyn Lawes rink was the Wild Card #1 representative while the Abby Ackland rink (skipped by Meghan Walter) was the Wild Card #3 representative. The Lawes rink would finish tied for second (seeded fifth) in Pool A with a 5–3 record and would lose their tiebreaker game to Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba
Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021, of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the Northern Region, Manitoba, north to dense Boreal forest of Canada, boreal forest, large freshwater List of lakes of Manitoba, lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and Southern Manitoba, southern regions. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, British and French North American fur trade, fur traders began arriving in the area and establishing settlements. The Kingdom of England secured control of the region in 1673 and created a territory named Rupert's Land, which was placed under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Deschenes
Emily Deschenes (born December 25, 2002) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Career Deschenes skipped her rink to silver at the 2019 Canadian U18 Curling Championships in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Deschenes was selected to represent Canada in the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland. The rink, skipped by Nathan Young, went undefeated in the round robin, before falling to Japan in the quarter finals. Following the mixed competition, Deschenes competed in Mixed Doubles with Oriol Gasto (Spain). Deschenes capped the 2020 season with a victory at the 2020 Ontario Winter Games. Deschenes entered the 2020–21 season with a new rink. In just their second event together at the Stu Sells Toronto Tankard, they defeated the Jennifer Jones rink 6–4 in a round robin game and finished third for the event. With a new look team heading into the 2021–22 season, Deschenes and her rink captured silver at the 2022 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, losing to Taylo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2022 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships was held from March 26 to April 1 at the Stratford Rotary Complex in Stratford, Ontario. The winning teams represented Canada at the 2023 World Junior Curling Championships in Füssen, Germany. This was the second time Stratford hosted the Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The first was in 2016 when Manitoba's Matt Dunstone and Nova Scotia's Mary Fay took home the titles. The 2022 event featured eighteen teams on both the men's and women's sides, each split into two pools of nine. The top three teams from each pool at the end of the round robin advanced to the playoff round. Based on results from the 2019 and 2020 events, certain provinces earned two berths to the championship. Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario and Saskatchewan each earned an extra berth on the men's side, while Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec got two berths on the women's side. Medallists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 World Junior-B Curling Championships (December)
The 2022 World Junior-B Curling Championships were held from December 8 to 19 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland. The top three men's and women's teams qualified for the 2023 World Junior Curling Championships. Men Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings ''Final round-robin standings'' Round-robin results All draw times are listed in Eastern European Summer Time ( UTC+03:00). Draw 1 ''Thursday, December 8, 8:00'' Draw 2 ''Thursday, December 8, 12:00'' Draw 3 ''Thursday, December 8, 16:00'' Draw 4 ''Thursday, December 8, 20:00'' Draw 5 ''Friday, December 9, 8:00'' Draw 6 ''Friday, December 9, 12:00'' Draw 7 ''Friday, December 9, 16:00'' Draw 8 ''Friday, December 9, 20:00'' Draw 9 ''Saturday, December 10, 8:00'' Draw 10 ''Saturday, December 10, 12:00'' Draw 11 ''Saturday, December 10, 16:00'' Draw 12 ''Saturday, December 10, 20:00'' Draw 13 ''Sunday, December 11, 9:00'' Draw 14 ''Sunday, December 11, 14: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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