Michael N. Chernoff (born c. 1936) is a

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curler and geologist from

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. He is a and a .

Personal life

Chernoff has a degree in geological engineering from

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Suss ...

. He was born in

Kamsack, Saskatchewan Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada is a town in the Assiniboine River Valley, where the Whitesand River joins the Assiniboine River. It is northeast of Yorkton. Highway 8 and Highway 5 intersect in the town. Coté First Nation is located north and ...

. 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

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in 1999. He was a director at Encana (now

Ovintiv Ovintiv Inc. is a hydrocarbon exploration and production company organized in Delaware and headquartered in Denver, United States. It was founded and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, under its previous name Encana. It was the largest energy co ...

) 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 by two brothers John and Ross Keating with Jack McCleary. I ...

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Mike Chernoff – Curling Canada Stats Archive
1930s births Living people Canadian male curlers Brier champions Queen's University at Kingston alumni Canadian geologists People from West Vancouver Curlers from Calgary Canadian oilmen Curlers from Ontario Curlers from Saskatchewan Curlers from British Columbia 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-curling-bio-stub