The Fort Rouge Curling Club is a

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club located in the Fort Rouge district of

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History

The Fort Rouge Curling Club joined the

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in 1915, while the Fort Rouge Ladies Curling Club was one of the founding members of the Manitoba Ladies Curling Association in 1924. In 1919, the first Fort Rouge Curling Club rink was built at the corner of Kylemore Avenue and Osborne Street. This building would later be demolished, and a new facility was built in 1959, a few blocks away on Daly Street where it stands today.

Champions

Men's

The Rouge was the home club of the 1972 World Championship winning team of Orest Meleschuk, Dave Romano, John Hanesiak and Pat Hailley, a team most notable for the " Curse of LaBonte" incident. The club has produced two other Canadian championship rinks, in 1952 and 1956 (pre-dating the World Championships), both skipped by Billy Walsh. The 1952 Brier championship team included

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, Andy McWilliams and John Watson while the 1956 championship team included Langlois,

Cy White Thomas Cyril "Cy" White (1915 – August 4, 1979) was a Canadian curler. He was the second on the Billy Walsh rink that won the Brier Championship for Manitoba 1956. He was a post office employee in Winnipeg. He was married to Winnifred and h ...

and McWilliams. The club is also home to the 2016 men's provincial champion rink, consisting of Mike McEwen,

B. J. Neufeld Brendan "B. J." Neufeld (born February 28, 1986) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Neufeld plays third for the Matt Dunstone rink. He started curling around the age of ten and, like older brother Denni Neufeld, cites the achievem ...

Matt Wozniak Matt Wozniak (born January 6, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wozniak is the former second for the Mike McEwen team which curled out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg. Career 2005–2010 In 2005, Woznia ...

and

Denni Neufeld Dennison "Denni" Neufeld (born January 25, 1981) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in Steinbach, Manitoba, Neufeld won a gold medal for Manitoba at the 1999 Canada Games. In 2001 he joined Mike McEwen's team. After a few years ...

Women's

The Rouge was also the home club of the

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winning team of

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, Chris More, Corinne Peters and Janet Arnott. Laliberte also won a bronze medal at the

1992 Canada Safeway World Women's Curling Championship The 1992 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 1992 Canada Safeway World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) took place from March 28–April 5, 1992, at the Olympic Eisstadion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany ...

with teammates Laurie Allen, Cathy Gauthier and Arnott and a silver medal at the

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with Cathy Overton, Gauthier and Arnott. Teams from the Fort Rouge won numerous provincial women's championships, including: *1958: Esther Poulton, May Graham, Mary Chalmers, Dorothy Starr *1984: Laliberte, More, Peters, Arnott *1989: Chris More,

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, Lori Zeller, Kristen Kuruluk *1992: Laliberte, Allen, Gauthier, Arnott *1994: Laliberte, Purdy, Gauthier, Arnott *1995: Laliberte, Purdy (replaced by Overton), Gauthier, Arnott *1999: Laliberte, Overton-Clapham, Debbie Jones-Walker, Arnott *2000: Overton-Clapham, Jill Staub, Jones-Walker, Arnott *2003:

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, Barb Enright,

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*2006: Janet Harvey, Jill Thurston, Cherie-Ann Loder, Carey Burges *2009: Spencer, Robertson,

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, Barb Enright *2011: Overton-Clapham,

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, Leslie Wilson,

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*2014:

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, Kristen Foster, Lindsay Titheridge

Junior

Provincial junior championship rinks include: * 1990 women's: Nancy Malanchuk, Raili Walker, Jill Ursel, Natalie Claude * 1993 men's: Mike Mansell, Doug Pottinger,

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, Keith Marshall * 1995 men's: Chris Galbraith,

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, Bryan Galbraith ( Canadian Champions, World Bronze Medallists) * 2015 women's:

Beth Peterson Beth Peterson (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently skips her own team out of the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg. Career Peterson won the 2015 Manitoba Junior provincial championship s ...

, Robyn Njegovan,

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, Breanne Yozenko * 2016 women's: Abby Ackland, Robyn Njegovan,

, Sara Oliver

Senior

Provincial senior championship rinks include: *1999 men's: Ron Westcott, Neil Andrews, Bob Boughey, Ron Toews

Masters

Provincial masters championship rinks include: *1987 men's: Colin Milne, Mike Prymak, Jack Stoneman, Claude Reid *1988 men's: Ken Hilton, Colin Milne, Bud Snarr, George Lowe *1993 men's: Lyle Henry, Colin Milne, Fraser Muldrew, Jim Penston *2010 men's: Ron Westcott, Bob Jenion, Bob Boughey, Gary Smith *2012 men's: Ron Westcott, Bob Jenion, Bob Boughey, Gary Smith *2014 men's: Ron Westcott, Ken Dusablon, Bob Boughey, Ron Toews *2015 men's: Ron Westcott, Ken Dusablon, Bob Boughey, Howard Restall ( Canadian Champions)

Travelers Curling Club Championship

The Fort Rouge Curling Club won the

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, women's division. Members of the winning team were Tracy Andries, Crystal Kennedy, Dianne Christensen and April Klassen.

References

Curl Manitoba past champions

External links

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