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Louis Quevillon (curler)
Louis Quevillon (born May 14, 1997) is a Canadian curler from Lacolle, Quebec. He currently plays third on Team Yannick Martel. Career Quevillon won his first Quebec Junior Curling Championship in 2018, playing third for Alek Bédard with Émile Asselin at second and Bradley Lequin at lead. This qualified them for the 2018 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, held January 13–21 in Shawinigan, Quebec. At the championship, the team finished the round robin with a 4–2 record, which was enough to qualify them for the championship pool. They then lost three of their four games, finishing the tournament in seventh place with a 5–5 record. Team Bédard aged out of juniors the following season and began competing on the World Curling Tour. In their three events, they finished runner-up at the Finale du Circuit and reached the semifinals at both the Experience Curling Classic and the Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache. At the 2019 WFG Tankard, they missed the championship round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost navigable point of Lake Champlain. As of December 2019, the population of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu was 98,036. History Historically, the city has been an important transportation hub. The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, first railway line in British North America connected it with La Prairie, Quebec, La Prairie in 1836. It also hosts the annual International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a hot air balloon festival which attracts hundreds of tourists who come to see the hundreds of balloons in the sky each August. The Chambly Canal extends north along the west bank of the river and provides modern freight passage to Chambly, Quebec, Chambly and the St. Lawrence River. The canal has one Lock (water transport), lock near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 WFG Tankard
The 2019 WFG Tankard ''(French: Tankard WFG 2019)'' the Quebec men's provincial curling championship was held from January 13 to 20 at the Arèna de Grand-Mère in Grand-Mère, Quebec. The winning Martin Crête team represented Quebec at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier in Brandon, Manitoba. The event was held in conjunction with the 2019 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Quebec's provincial women's curling championship. The Martin Crête skipped rink (which had been skipped by 11-time provincial champion Jean-Michel Ménard in 2018 before he retired) won the event, defeating the 2018 champion Mike Fournier rink in the final. Teams Teams were as follows Preliminary round Standings Scores The scores for the preliminary round were as follows: January 13 ;Draw 1 *Fournier 8-5 Munroe *Ferland 10-7 Hill *Martel 11-7 Jo. Stewart ;Draw 2 *Crête 11-5 Homan *Roy 9-1 Michaud *Gagné 9-3 Holdaway January 14 ;Draw 3 *Jo. Stewart 7-0 Munroe *Ferland 8-4 Je. Stewart *Martel 10-6 Hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Curling Classic
The Capital Curling Classic is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour. It is held annually in at the beginning of October at the RCMP Curling Club in Ottawa, 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 Ca .... Past event names include the OVCT Parliament Cup, Parliament Cup, Mac Ice Classic, and the Moosehead Classic. It became an exclusively open event in 2018 (open to both genders). Past Champions Past Women's Champions Past Open Champions External linksOfficial site References {{reflist Ontario Curling Tour events Curling in Ottawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 Curling Season
The 2021–22 curling season began in June 2021 and ended in May 2022. ''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.'' World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Other events Qualification events Provincial and territorial playdowns National championships Austria Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland Ireland Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Russia Scotland South Korea Sweden Switzerland United States Tour events ''Grand Slam events in bold.'' ''Note: More events may be posted as time progresses.'' Teams :''See: List of teams in the 2021–22 curling season'' World Curling Tour sanctioned events Men's events Source: Women's events Source: Mixed doubles events Source: Other events Men's events Source: Women's events Source: Mixed d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Tim Hortons Brier
The 2021 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from March 5 to 14 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. In the final, Team Alberta, skipped by Brendan Bottcher defeated Team Wild Card 2, skipped by Kevin Koe in an all-Alberta final, and a re-match of the 2019 Brier final. It was Bottcher's first Brier championship after losing the previous three finals. The first six ends of the final were evenly matched with Koe leading 1–0 heading into the seventh end. In the seventh, Koe's first rock picked, and he missed a double on his second shot, allowing Bottcher a draw for three, to go up 3–1. The two teams exchanged singles in the 8th and 9th ends, and in the 10th end, with just 30 seconds left on their time clock, Koe conceded with one rock left, as his team had no possibilities to score two points to tie the game. As champions, Bottcher and his team went on to represent Canada at the 2021 World Men's Curling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling Québec
Curling Québec is the regional governing body for the sport of curling in Quebec. It was founded in 1976 and is one of Curling Canada's 14 member associations. Provincial championships Curling Québec hosts nine provincial championships annually:{{Cite web, url=https://curling-quebec.qc.ca/championships/elite-series/?lang=en, title=Elite Series, date=2016-07-13, website=Curling Québec, language=en-US, access-date=2019-03-26 * WFG Tankard (Men's) * Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Women's) * Mixed Doubles * Mixed * Masters Men's * Masters Women's * Wheelchair * Senior Men's * Senior Women's See also * List of curling clubs in Quebec Curling clubs in the Canadian province of Quebec are organized by Curling Quebec into 10 regions. East * Club de curling de la Vallée - Amqui * Club de curling de Rimouski - Rimouski * Club de curling Murdochville - Murdochville * Club de curl ... References External links Official website Curling governing bodies in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Quebec
The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Until 2021, Quebec had reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Canada, eventually overtaken by Ontario. The pandemic first spread to Quebec in late February 2020, with the first confirmed case being a 41-year-old woman from Montreal who had returned from Iran on a flight from Doha, Qatar. Quebec declared its first ''Public Health Emergency'' in its history on March 14, 2020, and it was renewed every 10 days until June 1, 2022, when it was officially ended. On March 15, the government enforced the closure of various entertainment and recreational venues, and on March 23, all non-essential businesses were ordered to close. By the end of March, over four and a half thousand cases had been confirmed in all regions of the province. Long-term care homes were particul ... [...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] |
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. Kingston is also located nearby the Thousand Islands, a tourist region to the east, and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west. Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because of the many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone. Growing European exploration in the 17th century, and the desire for the Europeans to establish a presence close to local Native occupants to control trade, led to the founding of a French trading post and military fort at a site known as "Cataraqui" (generally pronounced /kætə'ɹɑkweɪ/, "kah-tah-ROCK-way") in 1673. This outpost, called Fort Cataraqui, and later Fort Frontenac, became a focus for settlement. Since 1760, the site of Kingston, Ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Tim Hortons Brier
The 2020 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from February 29 to March 8 at the Leon's Centre in Kingston, Ontario. The winning Brad Gushue rink was scheduled to represent Canada at the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue rink won their third Brier Tankard by defeating Alberta's Brendan Bottcher rink 7–3 in the final. Gushue won the Tankard in and . Bottcher finished runner-up in the past two Briers as well, losing to Gushue in 2018 and Kevin Koe in . On Tuesday, March 3, Saskatchewan skip Matt Dunstone curled two perfect games in the same day (Draws 10 and 11) against higher ranked teams Ontario (John Epping) and Canada (Kevin Koe). It was the first time a curler curled two perfect games in the same day in Canadian Men's Curling Championship history. At the end of the Championship pool round on Friday March 6, four teams were tied for the fourth pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Roberge
Vincent Roberge (born December 16, 1997) is a Canadian curler from Lévis, Quebec. Career Roberge won his first Quebec Junior Curling Championship in 2017, skipping his team of Julien Tremblay, Étienne Elmaleh and Fabien Roberge. This qualified them for the 2017 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, held January 21–29 in Esquimalt, British Columbia. At the championship, Roberge's team just missed qualifying for the championship pool, finishing the round robin with a 2–4 record. They then went 3–1 in the seeding pool to finish the tournament with an overall 5–5 record. Two seasons later, Roberge won his second provincial junior title, qualifying his team of Jesse Mullen, Simon-Olivier Hebert and Bradley Lequin for the 2019 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Roberge and his team fared much better this time around, qualifying for the championship pool with a 4–2 round robin record. They then went 1–3 in the championship pool, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fournier
Michael "Mike" Fournier (born November 24, 1971) is a Canadian curler originally from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He currently skips his own team out of Toronto, Ontario. Career Fournier played in his first Quebec Tankard in 2014 at the 2014 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship. His team reached the semifinal where they lost to eventual champions Jean-Michel Ménard. They made it one game further the following year at the 2015 Quebec Men's Provincial Curling Championship, losing in the final to the Ménard rink. Fournier won his first provincial championship at the 2018 WFG Tankard. His team qualified for the playoffs as the fourth seed and won three straight games to claim the provincial title. At the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier, Fournier led his team to a 3–5 record, finishing in tenth place. They could not defend their provincial title the following year, losing to Martin Crête in the final of the 2019 WFG Tankard. Fournier and his team of Félix Asselin, Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
