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Stuart Thompson (curler)
Stuart Thompson (born September 26, 1992 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler. He currently skips his own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a junior curler, Thompson won three Nova Scotia provincial titles. The first came in 2011, playing second for his brother Kendal's team. The team represented Nova Scotia at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where the team would just miss the playoffs, finishing with a 7-5 record. With the elder Kendal graduating from the junior ranks, Stuart formed his own junior team for the next season with himself skipping, teammates Scott Babin, Alex MacNeil and Paul Weingartshofer. The team won the 2012 provincial junior title and represented Nova Scotia at the 2012 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Thompson led his rink to a 9-3 round robin record, tied for third with Manitoba. This put the team in a tiebreaker game for the final playoff spot, which they would lose. For the next season, Thompson continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The regional municipality consists of four former municipalities that were amalgamated in 1996: Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, and Halifax County. Halifax is a major economic centre in Atlantic Canada, with a large concentration of government services and private sector companies. Major employers and economic generators include the Department of National Defence, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Saint Mary's University, the Halifax Shipyard, various levels of government, and the Port of Halifax. Agriculture, fishing, mining, forestry, and natural gas extraction are major resource industries found in the rural areas of the municipality. History Halifax is located within ''Miꞌkmaꞌki'' the traditional ancestral lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2013 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships were held from January 31 to February 10 at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre at MacDonald Island Park and at the Oilsands Curling Club in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Alberta last hosted the junior championships in Calgary in 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, 2011. The winners will represent Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships in Sochi, Russia. Men Round-robin standings ''Final round-robin standings'' Championship Pool Standings ''Final Standings'' Playoffs Semifinal ''Saturday, February 9, 10:30 am'' Final ''Saturday, February 9, 5:00 pm'' Women Round-robin standings ''Final round-robin standings'' Championship Pool Standings ''Final Standings'' Playoffs Semifinal ''Sunday, February 10, 10:30 am'' Final ''Sunday, February 10, 5:00 pm'' Qualification *The Junior Provincials are being held January 2–7 at the Gander Curling Club in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Colter
Travis Colter (born October 15, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He currently plays second on Team Stuart Thompson. He was a member of the 2019 Nova Scotia men's championship rink that competed at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship. Career Men's Colter began curling at around 2007. By 2010, he had already joined up with former Brier champion Mark Dacey, playing lead on his team. He played in his first provincial championship at the 2011 Nova Scotia Men's Molson Provincial Championship. There, the team lost in the C qualifier final. The next season, they lost in the final of the 2012 Nova Scotia Men's Molson Provincial Championship to the Jamie Murphy rink. In 2012, Colter joined the Kevin Saccary rink, and joined the Tommy Sullivan rink in 2014. The Sullivan rink went 2–5 at the 2015 provincial championship. In 2015, Colter joined the Stuart Thompson rink as the team's second. Team found immediate success on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Clearwater Men's Provincial Championship
The 2015 Clearwater Men's Provincial Championship, the provincial men's curling championship of Nova Scotia, was held from February 4 to 8 at the Halifax Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax. The winning Glen MacLeod team represented Nova Scotia at the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary. Teams Round robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Scores February 4 ;Draw 1 *Dacey 6-5 Fitzner-Leblanc *Murphy 7-2 Mayhew *Stevens 8-4 Dexter *MacLeod 5-3 Sullivan ;Draw 2 *Dexter 8-3 Mayhew *Dacey 7-4 Sullivan *Fitzner-Leblanc 7-6 MacLeod *Murphy 7-5 Stevens February 5 ;Draw 3 *Fitzner-Leblanc 7-6 Sullivan *Stevens 10-5 Mayhew *Murphy 10-5 Dexter *MacLeod 8-6 Dacey ;Draw 4 *MacLeod 6-4 Murphy *Dacey 8-4 Dexter *Sullivan 6-4 Mayhew *Stevens 8-6 Fitzner-Leblanc ;Draw 5 *Dexter 8-4 Sullivan *Fitzner-Leblanc 6-5 Murphy *Stevens 5-3 MacLeod *Dacey 10-6 Mayhew February 6 ;Draw 6 *Stevens 9–8 Dacey *Dexter 5–6 MacLeod *Fitzner-Leblanc 7–3 Mayhew *Murphy 8–3 Sullivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Curling Tour Championship
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
