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Ron Northcott
Ronald Charles Northcott, (December 31, 1935 – May 15, 2023), nicknamed "The Owl", was a Canadian three-time national and world curling champion and a Hall of Fame member. Northcott was born in Innisfail, Alberta and raised in both Vulcan, Alberta, Vulcan and Milo, Alberta, Milo where his father, Charles was a store owner. Northcott began curling as a high school student at age fifteen in Vulcan, Alberta, and won a provincial high school championship in 1953, playing third for Barry Coleman (curler), Barry Coleman. Northcott's talents saw him eventually represent the province of Alberta at six The Brier, Briers, Canada's national men's championship. Northcott's first Brier was 1963 Macdonald Brier, in 1963, playing third for Jimmy Shields (curler), Jimmy Shields. The rink went 8–2 at the Brier, just one win shy of the champion Saskatchewan rink, skipped by Ernie Richardson (curler), Ernie Richardson. Northcott began skipping the next season, and won a second Boston Pizza Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innisfail, Alberta
Innisfail ( ) is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, south of Red Deer, Alberta, Red Deer at the junction of Alberta Highway 2, Highway 2 and Alberta Highway 54, Highway 54. History The town's name comes from an Irish language, Irish-language epithet for Ireland, ''Inis Fáil'', "Isle of Destiny". Before this name was adopted, the town was often referred to as "Poplar Grove". Sandy Fraser, Napoleon Remillard, Arthur Content and Bill Kemp settled in the area from 1884 to 1887. These were Innisfail's first settlers. Dr. Henry George was an important physician and coroner for Calgary and Central Alberta. He settled in Innisfail and built a house he called "Lindum Lodge" (this is where the Dr. George/Kemp house is today). Later the house was occupied by Bill Kemp and Kate Jane Kemp, who ran it as a boarding house until the 1960s. More people continued to move to the Innisfail area. The construction of the railroad attracted more settler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brier
The Tim Hortons Brier, or simply (and more commonly) the Brier (''french: Le Brier''), is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The current event name refers to its main sponsor, the Tim Hortons coffee and donut shop chain. "Brier" originally referred to a brand of tobacco sold by the event's first sponsor, the Macdonald Tobacco Company. The Brier has been held since 1927, traditionally during the month of March. The winner of the Brier goes on to represent Canada at the World Curling Championships of the same year. The Brier is by far the best supported curling competition in terms of paid attendance, attracting crowds far larger than even those for World Championships held in Canada. History In 1924, George J. Cameron, the president of the W. L. Mackenzie and Company subsidiary of the Macdonald Tobacco Company, pitched the idea of a national curling championship to Macdonald Tobacco and was accepted. At the time Canadian curling was divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Gerlach
David Fredrick Gerlach (July 2, 1940–October 22, 2020) was a Canadian curler. He played as the third on the Ron Northcott rink that won the 1969 Brier and World Championship. Gerlach was the son of Fritz and Ida Gerlach, and grew up in the Stettler, Alberta area, and graduated high school from the Botha School in Botha, Alberta. Gerlach was a police officer with the Calgary Police Service when he won the Canadian Police Curling Championship in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972. Before becoming a police officer, Gerlach was a farmer in Stettler, Alberta Stettler is a town in east-central Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the County of Stettler No. 6. The town is nicknamed "The Heart of Alberta". History Stettler was founded in 1905 and was named after Swiss immigrant Carl Stettler, who .... He returned to Stettler to farm in the 1970s, and worked as a car salesman. In 1981, he started a business selling pictures. Gerlach was married twice and had three daughters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Hay
Charles Hay, MBE (23 April 1930 – 4 August 2017) was a Scottish curler and World Champion. He skipped the Scottish team that won the 1967 World Curling Championships, known then as the Scotch Cup. The other members of the Scottish team were John Bryden, Alan Glen and Dave Howie. They defeated Sweden in the final. Scotland did not win another men's world title until 1991 when David Smith's rink (including Chuck's eldest son David) beat Canada in Winnipeg. Hay was made an MBE in 1977 for his promotion of curling. In 2011, he received the Elmer Freytag Award for services to curling and was inducted into the World Curling Federation Hall of Fame in 2012. Hay worked as a farmer in Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, .... Teams References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Gurowka
Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated short about Joe Fortes Music and radio * "Joe" (Inspiral Carpets song) * "Joe" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song) * "Joe", a song by The Cranberries on their album ''To the Faithful Departed'' *"Joe", a song by PJ Harvey on her album '' Dry'' *"Joe", a song by AJR on their album ''OK Orchestra'' * Joe FM (other), any of several radio stations Computing * Joe's Own Editor, a text editor for Unix systems * Joe, an object-oriented Java computing framework based on Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project Media * Joe (website), a news website for the UK and Ireland * ''Joe'' (magazine), a defunct periodical developed originally for Kenyan youth Places * Joe, North Carolina, United States, a town * Jõe, Saaremaa Parish, Eston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Sparkes
Bernard Leslie Sparkes (born October 15, 1940) is a former world champion curler. Sparkes's first major curling championship success came when he won the 1957 Alberta Schoolboys.. He would later go on to win 4 Alberta (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) championships and 3 Canadian Brier and World Championships (1966, 1968, 1969) He was voted all star second at 4 consecutive Briers as the second for the Ron Northcott team. He is a member of the Lethbridge Sports Hall Of Fame (baseball), the Southern Alberta Curling Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame (1974) and the WCF Hall of Fame (2021). Sparkes moved to British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ... in 1970 and went on to win 9 more men's provincial curling championships 1 Masters over 70 in 2014 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fink
George Frederick Fink (born c. 1940) is a Canadian retired curler. He played as third on the Ron Northcott rink that won the 1966 Brier and World Championship. He later worked in the oil and gas business, serving as CEO and President of multiple companies. At the time of the 1966 Brier, he was employed by Clarkson Gordon & Co. References External links * George Fink – Curling Canada Stats Archive* Video: (YouTube-channel «Curling Canada») {{DEFAULTSORT:Fink, George Living people Curlers from Alberta 1940s births Brier champions World curling champions Canadian male curlers 20th-century Canadian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Macdonald Brier
The 1964 Macdonald Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held from March 4 to 8, 1964 at the Charlottetown Forum in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. A total of 13,573 fans attended the event, which was the smallest attended Brier since 1952. As of 2023 this is the only time that PEI has hosted a Brier. Team British Columbia, who was skipped by Lyall Dagg captured the Brier Tankard by finishing round robin play with a 9–1 record. This was the second time in which BC had won the Brier with their previous championship being in 1948. Dagg and his rink would go onto represent Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ... in the 1964 Scotch Cup, which they won. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings Round-rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Storey
Frederick Lewis Storey (March 3, 1932 – December 2, 2019) was a Canadian curler from Calgary. He won three World Curling Championships and three Brier Championships playing as lead on the Ron Northcott rink. Storey grew up in Empress, Alberta and moved to Calgary in high school, and won a provincial school boys title for Mount Royal in 1951, and finished runner up at that year's school boy championship (now the Canadian Junior Curling Championships) playing for the Bob Harper rink. He also played baseball in high school. At the time of the 1960 Brier, he worked for Pacific Petroleums Pacific Petroleums Limited was a Canadian integrated petroleum company that existed between 1939 and 1979. The company was founded and run by Frank McMahon, a wildcat driller from British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC ... as chief clerk of inventory and equipment control. He was married in 1959 to Donna Chaput. References External links * Frederick Storey – Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Baker (curler) (born 1993), American track and field athlete
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Ronald Baker may refer to: *Ronald L. Baker (1937–2023), American folklorist *Ronald James Baker (1924–2020), president of the University of Prince Edward Island * Ronald John Baker (1912–1990), Canadian engineer *Ron Baker (American football) (born 1954), offensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts and the Philadelphia Eagles *Ronnie Baker (musician) (1947–1990), American record producer, bassist, arranger and songwriter *Ronnie Baker (athlete) Ronnie Baker (born October 15, 1993) is an American professional track and field athlete specializing in the sprints. Over 60 meters his personal best time of 6.40 seconds makes him the third-fastest man in the event in history. He was champion ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chernoff (curler)
Michael N. Chernoff (born c. 1936) is a Canadian curler and geologist from West Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a and a . Personal life Chernoff has a degree in geological engineering from Queen's University at Kingston. He was born in Kamsack, Saskatchewan. He is married to Dorine. After graduating from Queens, Chernoff worked as a geologist, conducting field studies across Canada for several oil and gas companies including California Standard, Pinnacle Petroleum, and Ulster Petroleum. He founded Strom Resources in 1979, and sold it to PennWest. He founded Paclata Resources in 1987 with his son Bruce, developing oil and gas operations in a number of different countries. It was sold to Alberta Energy Company in 1999. He was a director at Encana (now Ovintiv) and Canadian Hydro Developers Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc. was a Canadian company that operated 12 hydroelectric power sites, eight wind power sites and one biomass power site in Canada. Canadian Hydro was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
