The 2019

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, the territorial women's

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championship for

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, was held January 10–11 at the Yellowknife Curling Centre in

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. Only two teams entered the event, the defending champion

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rink from Yellowknife and the 2019 territorial junior champion Tyanna Bain rink from

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. As such, the event was a best-of-five series. Galusha easily beat the Bain rink in three games. Team Galusha represented Northwest Territories at the

2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts The 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from February 16 to 24 at the Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The winning team represented Canada at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship he ...

, Canada's national women's curling championship.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Scores

Game #1

''January 10, 8:00pm''

Game #2

''January 11, 10:00am''

Game #3

''January 11, 2:30pm''

References

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2019 in the Northwest Territories

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