The Glencoe Club is a
private sports and social club located in southwest
Calgary, Alberta
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, Canada founded in 1931. Its facilities include two swimming pools, six badminton courts, ten bowling lanes, eight curling sheets, a skating rink, seven squash courts, six indoor tennis courts, and a fitness facility.
Etymology
The area the club was founded on was called the Glencoe Subdivision. The subdivision was named after the
Glencoe valley, in Scotland.
History
The club was founded in 1931 when the Calgary Skating Club decided to handover all assets to the newly formed Glencoe. The official inauguration took place on March 21, 1931. The original directors of the club acquired the land on a 30-year lease from the
city of Calgary
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for $70,000. The original building was contracted to J.A. Tweddle Ltd. and shares were subscribed to at $100 each. The building was constructed in just three months and when the Glencoe officially had its grand opening on November 16, 1931, opened it had 1,200 members, 450 of who had shares.
![Glencoe_Plaque](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Glencoe_Plaque.jpg)
During the later part of the thirties and early forties the club was having financial trouble and was essentially bankrupt. However the club made it through these years and following the end of the second world war the board decided to install 'artificial ice' so that skating could be part of the Glencoe year round. When the ice plant opened in 1947 it was the first ice to be used for both curling and skating in Alberta. The Hon. C.E. Gerhart, the then Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Municipal Affairs opened the new plant. The new ice was then used to host the 1948 Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Following this was the 16th annual ice show and the guest star was
Barbara Ann Scott
Barbara Ann Scott (May 9, 1928 – September 30, 2012) was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion (1944–46, 48) in ladies' singles. Kn ...
along with
Wallace Diestelmeyer and
Suzanne Morrow. This was so successful that that year there was another ice show in November which featured Yvonne Claire Sherman and Jimmy Grogan.
In 1948, the Glencoe grew and improved a further $50,000 in improvements. By now the club hosted three skating rinks (two outdoor one indoors), six curling rinks, six badminton courts, four bowling alleys, squash courts, two table tennis sets, lawn bowling, six hard surface tennis courts, a lounge, and a dining rooms.
In 1953, the Glencoe added four more lanes for bowling, two sheets of curling ice as well as renovating the kitchen, lounge, and new offices for $150,000.
Curling
Notable members
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Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Originally from Yellowknife
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Amy Nixon
Amy Lee Nixon (born September 29, 1977) is a Canadian retired curler and lawyer from Calgary, Alberta. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2006 Winter Olympic women's curling team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink. Nixon was also the chair ...
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Carter Rycroft
Carter Rycroft (born August 29, 1977) is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic team, skipped by Kevin Martin, that won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Career
Rycroft joined the Marti ...
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Nolan Thiessen
Nolan Thiessen (born November 6, 1980 in Pilot Mound, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler.
Career
Thiessen, in his debut at Canadian Juniors, lost the final of the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships playing lead for Mike McEwen. Thiessen ...
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Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip.
Career
...
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Laine Peters
Laine Peters ronounced: LAY-nee(born March 24, 1970 in Arborfield, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler, from Calgary. Peters has played in 11 Tournament of Hearts and six World Championships. She is currently the coach of the Tabitha Peter ...
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Jocelyn Peterman
Jocelyn Andrea Peterman (born September 23, 1993) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently plays second for the Kaitlyn Lawes rink.
Career Juniors
Peterman and her team of Brittany Tran, Becca Konschuh and Kristine Anderson ...
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Brent Laing
Brent George Laing (born December 10, 1978) is a Canadian curler from Horseshoe Valley, Ontario. He currently plays lead for Mike McEwen. He grew up in Meaford, Ontario.
Career
Curling out of the Ottawa Curling Club (in Ottawa) and later the ...
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Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield (November 25, 1869 – August 23, 1949) was a Canadian politician and farmer who served as the fourth premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late tw ...
—4th
Premier of Alberta
The premier of Alberta is the first minister for the Canadian province of Alberta, and the province's head of government. The current premier is Danielle Smith, leader of the United Conservative Party, who was sworn in on October 11, 2022.
The ...
References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.glencoe.org/
Curling clubs in Canada
Sports venues in Calgary
1931 establishments in Alberta
Badminton venues