Maureen Bonar ( ); (born 1962 or 1963 in

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) is a

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curler. Bonar is a four time provincial champion- twice as a

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. In 2009 Bonar was inducted into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame.

Curling career

After having won the 1982 provincial junior championships as skip, Bonar joined up with Patti Vande as her lead and won the 1983 provincial championships earning them the right to represent Manitoba at the 1983 Scott Tournament of Hearts. The team finished 6-4, and out of the playoffs. Ten years later, Bonar won her second provincial championships - this time as skip. At the

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, Bonar lost in the final to Saskatchewan's

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(then Peterson). Bonar won her third provincial championships in 1996. At the 1996 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Bonar finished 6-5 and lost in a tie-breaker against her provincial rivals, team

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who won the Hearts the year before. In 1997, Laliberte had Bonar join her team as an alternate in their failed attempt to qualify for the

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. Bonar won her last provincial championships in 2004 playing second for

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. The team lost in the semi-final to

Marie-France Larouche Marie-France Larouche (born June 5, 1980 in Lévis, Quebec) is a Canadian curler, who currently skips her own team out of the Club de curling Etchemin in Saint-Romuald, Quebec. In 2022 she won the World Mixed Curling Championship playing third ...

of Quebec at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts.

References

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* Curlers from Manitoba Living people Canadian women curlers Year of birth uncertain 1960s births 20th-century Canadian women {{Canada-curling-bio-stub