Bernard L. Sparkes is a former world champion curler.

Sparkes's first major curling championship success came when he won the 1957 Alberta

Alberta

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 Schoolboys. He would later go on to win 4 Alberta (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) championships and 3 Canadian Brier

Tim Hortons Brier

The Tim Hortons Brier, or simply the Brier, is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by the Canadian Curling Association . The current event name refers to its main sponsor, the Tim Hortons coffee and doughnut shop chain.The Brier has been held since 1927, traditionally during...

 and World Championships (1966, 1968, 1969) He was voted all star second at 4 consecutive Briers as the second for the Ron Northcott

Ron Northcott

Ronald Charles "Owl" Northcott, CM is a three-time Canadian and World curling champion and a Hall of Fame member....

 team. He is a member of the Lethbridge

Lethbridge

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 Sports Hall Of Fame (baseball), and the Southern Alberta Curling Hall Of Fame. Bernie moved to British Columbia

British Columbia

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 in 1970 and went on to win 8 more men's provincial curling championships and 1 mixed championship. He was elected to the B.C. Sports Hall Of Fame in 1995.

One of his leisurely pursuits is painting.