Canadian Curling Hall of Fame
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The Canadian Curling Hall of Fame was established with its first inductees in 1973. It is operated by the Canadian Curling Association
Canadian Curling Association
The Canadian Curling Association is a Canadian organization responsible for encouraging and facilitating growth and development of the sport of curling. The CCA is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling associations across the country.-History:The CCA was created in...

 in Orleans, Ontario
Orléans, Ontario
Orleans , also written Orléans, is a suburban area within the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the eastern part of the city along the Ottawa River, about from downtown Ottawa. The Canada 2006 Census gave Orleans a population of 95,491. It became a ward of the City of Ottawa in 2001...

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The Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 selection committee meets annually to choose inductees from four categories: curler, builder, curler/builder and team. Past presidents of the Canadian Curling Association are automatically inducted into the Hall of Fame as part of the Executive Honour Roll.

A-F

  • Diane Adams
  • Donald J. Aitken
  • J. W. Allan
  • Lorraine Ambrosio
  • A. F. Anderson
  • A. F. Angus
  • Ronald M. Anton
  • Horace F. Argue
  • James E. Armstrong
  • James P. Armstrong
  • Janet Arnott
    Janet Arnott
    Janet Arnott is a Canadian curler from Manitoba.Arnott was the long time lead for her sister, Connie Laliberte winning the Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1984 and 1992 and the World Curling Championships in 1984...

  • Laurie Artiss
  • Henri Auger
  • Frank Avery
  • Norman Balderston
  • Matt Baldwin
    Matt Baldwin
    Matthew M. Baldwin is a Canadian curler from Edmonton.Baldwin is a three time Brier champion, having skipped to the Canadian men's championship in 1954, 1957 and 1958....

  • Caroline Ball
  • Marilyn Barraclough
  • Sue-Ann Bartlett
  • Timothy Belcourt
  • Gordon Lockhart Bennett
    Gordon Lockhart Bennett
    Gordon Lockhart Bennett, OC was a Canadian teacher, politician and the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island....

  • Morag Bergasse
  • Jan Betker
    Jan Betker
    Janice "Jan" Betker is a Canadian curler. Betker is best known for playing third on the Sandra Schmirler rink that won three world championships and an Olympic gold medal in the 1990s...

  • Marilyn Bodogh
    Marilyn Bodogh
    Marilyn C. Bodogh is a Canadian curler, colour commentator and political candidate....

  • H. Bruce Boreham
  • Earl E. G. Bourne
  • Jack Boutilier
  • Earl Boyd
  • Raplh S. Boyd
  • W. Cecil Boyd


  • Shirley Bray
  • Fred Britton
  • Michael Burns, Sr.
  • Noel R. Buxton
  • Ada Calles
  • Bert Cameron
  • Douglas A. Cameron
  • George J. Cameron
  • Colin A. Campbell
  • Glen M. Campbell
  • Gloria Campbell
  • Gordon Campbell
  • Maurice Campbell
  • Thane A. Campbell
  • W. Garnet Campbell
  • Kent Carstairs
  • Harry P. Carter
  • Agnès Charette
  • Kay Clift
  • James Congalton
  • Edith Corby-Moore
  • Walter B. Cowan
  • Pauline M. Cragg
  • Gordon Craig
  • Robert C. Cream
  • Elsie Crosby
  • E. M. Culliton
    E. M. Culliton
    Edward Milton Culliton, CC, SOM, KCSG was a member of Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan and Chief Justice of Saskatchewan....

  • D. William Currie


  • Lyall Dagg
    Lyall Dagg
    Lyall Dagg is a Canadian curler and World Champion. He won a gold medal at the 1964 World Curling Championships.-References:...

  • Keith Deacon
  • Noreen Delisle
  • Al R. Delmage
  • Mabel DeWare
    Mabel DeWare
    Mabel Margaret DeWare is a Canadian politician, curler, and retired Senator.Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, she skipped her team to a New Brunswick and Canadian Curling Association Ladies Curling championship in 1963, forerunner to the Scott Tournament of Hearts.In 1978, she was elected to the...

  • Catherine Dillon
  • George V. Dillon
  • Robert F. Dillon
  • Marion Dockendroff
  • James E. Donahoe
  • Richard Donahoe
    Richard Donahoe
    Richard Alphonsus Donahoe, Q.C., K.S.G. was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of James Donahoe and Rebecca Duggan, he was educated at Dalhousie University and set up practice in Halifax. In 1936, he married Mary Boyd...

  • Donna Duffet
  • Don Duguid
    Don Duguid
    Donald G. Duguid is a Canadian champion curler. A three-time winner of the Canadian Brier and two-time World Curling Championships champion, Duguid won the Brier in 1965, 1970 and 1971, and the Worlds in 1970 and 1971...

  • Anne Dunn
  • John Dutton
  • Patricia Dwyer
  • Jessie Elliott
  • J. Irl England
  • Emily B. Farnham
  • Sylvia Fedoruk
    Sylvia Fedoruk
    Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC, SOM is a Canadian scientist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, of Ukrainian immigrants, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1949, and a M.A...

  • Randy Ferbey
    Randy Ferbey
    Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

  • John Ferguson
  • Thomas R. Fisher
  • Don Fleming
  • Rick Folk
    Rick Folk
    Richard Dale “Rick” Folk is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He is a two-time world curling champion....

  • Anita Ford
  • Atina Ford
  • Rene Fortier
  • Barbara Foster
  • Gordon Fox


G-L

  • William Gatchell
  • Cathy Gauthier
    Cathy Gauthier
    Cathy Gauthier is a Canadian curler and broadcaster.Gauthier, who was the long time second for Connie Laliberte, last played the lead position on the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts championship team of Jennifer Jones. Gauthier also won two championships with Laliberte in 1992 and 1995, before...

  • Reginald H. Geary
  • Maymar Gemmell
  • Hec Gervais
    Hec Gervais
    Hector J. "The Friendly Giant" Gervais was a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He was a two-time Brier champion and former World Champion....

  • William Good, Sr.
  • Edwin Gooder
  • Peter Gow
  • Ab Gowanlock
    Ab Gowanlock
    Albert Adam "Ab" Gowanlock was a Canadian curler from Manitoba.Gowanlock was a two time provincial and two time Brier champion....

  • William A. Grant
  • Thomas Gray
  • Barry Greenberg
  • Jill Greenwood
  • Marcia Gudereit
    Marcia Gudereit
    Marcia Gudereit is a Canadian curler.Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was part of Team Schmirler, the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. This team is the only 3-time winner of the World Curling Championship...

  • John Gunn
  • Lloyd H. Gunnlaugson
  • Joseph A. Gurowka
  • Al Hackner
    Al Hackner
    Allan A. "Al" Hackner, nicknamed "the Iceman" is a Canadian Hall of Fame curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born and raised in Nipigon, Ontario. He is a two-time Brier and World Champion skip...

  • John Thomas Haig
    John Thomas Haig
    John Thomas Haig, PC was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as parliamentary leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party in 1921-22....

  • Perry G. Hall
  • Ina Hansen
  • Scotty Harper
  • Bill Harris (curling)
  • Dawn Harris
  • Neil Harrison
  • Ross G. L. Harstone
  • J. Gordon Haynes


  • Robert J. Heartwell
  • Ann Hebb
  • Leo Herbert
  • Darlene Hill
  • Walter Hobbs
  • Gordon Hooey
  • Heather Houston
    Heather Houston
    Heather Houston is a Canadian curler and world champion.-International championships:Houston became world champion in 1989 as skip for the Canadian team...

  • Neil Houston
  • Glenn Howard
    Glenn Howard
    Glenn Howard is a Canadian curler from Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has won three Briers and three world championships in his career. He has also won six straight Ontario provincials.-1980s-2006:...

  • Russ Howard
    Russ Howard
    Russell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...

  • Gordon M. Hudson
  • Gunther Hümmelt
  • Roderick G. M. Hunter
  • Niven M. Jackson
  • Hazel I. Jamieson
  • Shorty Jenkins
    Shorty Jenkins
    Clarence W. "Shorty" Jenkins is a famous ice technician in the sport of curling. He is known for his trademarked pink cowboy hat, pink leather jacket and pink cowboy boots....

  • Clara Johnson
  • Katherine Johnston
  • Leo Johnston
  • Colleen Jones
    Colleen Jones
    Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...

  • Debbie Jones-Walker
  • June Kaufman
  • John Kawaja
    John Kawaja
    John Kawaja is a Canadian curler. He is a two-time Brier and World Champion.Kawaja moved to Ontario as a youth, and became a high profile skip , but it was not until his move to the Ed Werenich rink that he finally started to win championships.In 1983, Kawaja won his first provincial championship,...

  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Tracy Kennedy
  • Eva Kerr
  • F. Marjorie Kerr
  • Nancy Kerr


  • John E. Keys
  • Ray Kingsmith
    Ray Kingsmith
    Raymond "Ray" A. Kingsmith was a politician and professional curler from Alberta, Canada.-Politics:Kingsmith ran for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1971 Alberta general election. He decided to take on incumbent Bill Dickie who had crossed the floor two years earlier from the...

  • Sharon Knox
  • Irene Konkin
  • Evelyn Krahn
  • Connie Laliberte
    Connie Laliberte
    Connie Laliberte is a Canadian curler from Manitoba and world champion.-Championships:Laliberte became world champion in 1984 as skip for the Canadian team....

  • Arthur N. Lamb
  • Lorraine Lang
    Lorraine Lang
    Lorraine Lang is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario.In 1981, Lang won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship playing lead for her future husband Rick Lang....

  • Rick Lang
    Rick Lang
    Richard P. "Rick" Lang is a five time Canadian Championship Curling winner representing Northern Ontario.Played third for Brier champions Bill Tetley , and Al Hackner . Also played third for Al Hackner's Canadian Senior Men's championship team in 2006...

  • Allan D. Langlois
  • Penny LaRocque
  • Vicki Lauder
  • Wendy Leach
  • William E. Leaman
  • Donald E. Lewis
  • Ina Light
  • Betty Linkletter
  • Shirley Little
  • Arthur L. Lobel
  • William Low
  • Frederick J. Lucas
  • Ed Lukowich
    Ed Lukowich
    Edward "Ed" Lukowich is a former champion curler. Lukowich is a two-time Brier champion. In 1986 his team won the World Curling Championship....

  • William E. Lumsden
  • Peter D. L. Lyall
  • Velma M. Lytle


M-R

  • Harold L. Mabey
  • Elizabeth Macdonald
  • Wendell L. Macdonald
  • Alan N. MacGowan
  • J. Alfred MacInnes
  • Elbridge P. MacKay
  • William J. MacKay
  • Donald MacKenzie
  • Daniel D. MacKinnon
  • Aileen MacLean
  • Donald R. MacLeod
  • Mary MacMurray
  • Murray Macneill
    Murray Macneill
    Dr. Murray Macneill was a curler from Nova Scotia. He is the first skip to win the Brier, back in 1927. He began curling in his back yard while he was a boy in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was always competitive and went on to become one of the top curlers in Maritime Canada...

  • Dot MacRae
  • W. J. Magrath
  • John S. Malcolm
  • Harvey Malo
  • Clifford R. Manahan
  • Hadie Manley
  • Lindy Marchuk
  • Flora Martin
  • J. B. Mather
  • Jack Matheson
    Jack Matheson
    John "Jack" Matheson was a Canadian sports journalist known for his wide coverage of sports for the Winnipeg Tribune from 1946 to 1980....

  • Doug Maxwell
    Doug Maxwell
    Douglas Dean "Doug" Maxwell was a noted Canadian journalist and broadcaster, noted for his coverage in the sport of curling....

  • Harvey Mazinke
  • J. B. McArthur
  • Joan McCusker
    Joan McCusker
    Joan McCusker , grew up in Saltcoats. She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, national and international level. As part of the Schmirler rink, McCusker won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics...

  • Cameron McEwen
  • Buzz McGibney
  • Larry McGrath
  • Thomas McGraw
  • Joyce McKee
    Joyce McKee
    Joyce McKee is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a five time Canadian champion.McKee won her very first provincial title as a skip in 1954, before the creation of a Canadian women's championship. She won again in 1960, earning the right to play at the Western Canada women's...

  • Shirley McKendry


  • Lura McLuckie
  • Burd S. McNeice
  • Andrew McWilliams
  • Janet E. Merry
  • Edna Messum
  • Olive Mews
  • Maureen Miller
  • Herbert C. Millham
  • Ronald A. Mills
  • Marj Mitchell
    Marj Mitchell
    Marjorie Mitchell was a Canadian curler and World Champion. She was skip for the winning team at the 1980 World Curling Championships. Mitchell died of cancer in 1983. The sportsmanship award at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is called the Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award in her...

  • Lorne Mitton
    Lorne Mitton
    Lorne Mitton is the former mayor of Moncton, New Brunswick, elected in May 2004. His predecessor was Brian Murphy. He was born and raised in Moncton, and studied at the University of Toronto...

  • Linda Moore
    Linda Moore
    Linda Moore is a Canadian world champion curler. Since 1989, she has been a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and formerly Ray Turnbull .-Career:...

  • Shirley Morash
  • Christine M. More
  • Lenore Morrison
  • John Moss
  • Clifford A. L. Murchison
  • Jerry J. Muzika
  • Joyce Myers
  • Barry Naimark
  • R. Bruce Ness
  • Dorothy D. New
  • Mary-Anne Nicholson
  • Robert B. Nicol
  • Bill Norgan
  • Ron Northcott
    Ron Northcott
    Ronald Charles "Owl" Northcott, CM is a three-time Canadian and World curling champion and a Hall of Fame member....

  • Frank O'Brien
  • Stanley Oleson
  • Albert Olson
  • L. E. Olson
  • Ole Olson
  • Clyde R. Opaleychuk
  • Anne Orser


  • A. William Parish
  • Albert J. Parkhill
  • Pat B. Reid
  • Ted Pattee
  • Pat Perroud
  • Charles Perry
  • Don Petlak
  • James K. Pettapiece
  • Vera Pezer
    Vera Pezer
    Vera Pezer, BA, MA, PhD is the current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. A sports enthusiast, Pezer is a Canadian softball champion, golfing contender, and curling champion. She has been inducted into both the Saskatchewan Sports Halls of Fame and the Canadian Curling Hall of...

  • Robert Picken
  • Robert H. Pickering
  • William F. Piercey
  • Peggy Piers
  • Violet Pike
  • Ernest Pollard
  • Muriel Porter
  • Rita C. Proulx
  • H. Fielding Rankine
  • Vic Rauter
    Vic Rauter
    Victor Rauter is a Canadian sportscaster for The Sports Network since 1985. He has covered mostly auto racing, curling and soccer since 1986 as well as hockey, baseball, bowling, squash, volleyball, equestrian and skiing....

  • Thomas H. Rennie
  • Arnold W. Richardson
  • Carleton S. Richardson
  • Ernie Richardson
    Ernie Richardson
    Ernest M. Richardson, CM is a Canadian and world curling champion.Ernie Richardson was the skip of the Regina-based team made up of his brother Garnet and cousins Arnold, Wes Richardson, and Mel Perry who replaced Wes in 1963 due to back issues...

  • Garnet S. Richardson
  • Wesley H. Richardson
  • Norman P. Rockwell
  • Barbara Roper
  • Samuel Rothschild
  • Sheila Rowan
  • Marion Rowlands
  • Adeline M. R. Roy
  • Pat Ryan


S-Z

  • Olivier Samson
  • Zivan Saper
  • Frank F. Sargent
  • Paul Savage
    Paul Savage (curler)
    A. Paul Savage is a Canadian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He played on the Canadian winning team at the 1983 World championships. He lives in Markham, Ontario.-References:...

  • Sandra Schmirler
    Sandra Schmirler
    Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM , was a Canadian curler, who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. Schmirler skipped her Canadian team to a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first year curling was a medal sport...

  • Mabel Dalton Segsworth
  • Jerry Shoemaker
  • John A. Sinclair
  • Marjorie H. Sinclair
  • Ronald Singbusch
  • F. Arthur Skinner
  • James Smart
  • David C. Smith
  • Sir Donald Smith
  • Emmett M. Smith
  • Yvonne Smith
  • Jean Snowdon
  • Bernie Sparkes
    Bernie Sparkes
    Bernard L. Sparkes is a former world champion curler.Sparkes's first major curling championship success came when he won the 1957 Alberta Schoolboys...

  • Lindsay Sparkes
    Lindsay Sparkes
    Lindsay Sparkes is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time Canadian champion, world champion and Olympic demonstration champion....

  • John D. Squarebriggs
  • Edward Steeves
  • Frank M. Stent
  • A. E. Stephenson
  • David Macdonald Stewart
  • T. Howard Stewart
  • Walter M. Stewart
  • Reginald E. Stone
  • Roy H. Stone
  • Frederick L. Storey


  • Toro Suzuki
  • Brent Syme
  • A. Ross Tarlton
  • Ian Tetley
    Ian Tetley
    Ian Tetley is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario. He is a three-time Brier and World Champion.Tetley is originally from Thunder Bay, in Northern Ontario, which gets a separate team at the Brier. In 1985, he played second for Al Hackner, for which they won he won his first Brier, and World...

  • Nicholas J. Thibodeau
  • Dorothy Thompson
  • G. Clifton Thompson
  • T. Gordon Thompson
  • Ted Thonger
  • Edith Tipping
  • Lee Tobin
  • Gerry Tomalty
  • Richard T. Topping
  • Clifford L. Torey
  • William R. Tracy
  • Thomas Travers
  • Evan A. Trites
  • Ray Turnbull
    Ray Turnbull (curler)
    Raymond "Moose" Turnbull is a Canadian curler from Manitoba. He was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and Linda Moore.-Championships:...

  • Thora Turner
  • James Tyre
  • Jim Ursel
  • Wally Ursuliak
  • Margaret E. Valentine
  • Pattie Vande
  • Judy Veinot
  • Don Walchuk
    Don Walchuk
    Donald J. Walchuk is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Until April 26, 2006, Walchuk played third for Kevin Martin's team.Walchuk joined up with Martin prior to the 1996 season...

  • David Walker
  • Jo Wallace


  • William J. Walsh
  • Cyril S. Walters
  • Grant G. Watson
  • Ila Watson
  • Ken Watson
    Ken Watson
    James Kenneth Watson, CM was a Canadian curler.Watson was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba and moved to Winnipeg later. He was the first man to skip his rink to three Brier championships in 1936, 1942 and 1949....

  • Cecil M. Watt
  • Hazel Watt
  • Horace P. Webb
  • Kenneth B. Weldon
  • Jack Wells
    Jack Wells
    John Hampson "Jack" Wells , also known as Cactus Jack, was a Winnipeg-based radio and television broadcaster specializing in sports....

  • James Oddie Welsh
  • Ed Werenich
    Ed Werenich
    Edward Werenich is a Canadian curler. Nicknamed "The Wrench," Werenich has been known to be a colourful and outspoken character. Outside of curling, Werenich worked as a firefighter....

  • Jim Weyman
  • Joan Whalley
  • Elma-Mae Whitehead
  • Twyla Widdifield
  • Errick F. Willis
  • Archibald E. Wilson
  • James R. Wilson
  • Robin Wilson
  • Thomas R. Wilson
  • Don Wittman
    Don Wittman
    Donald Rae Wittman was a Canadian sportscaster.Born in Herbert, Saskatchewan, Wittman attended the University of Saskatchewan and got his start in the field of broadcasting as a news reporter with CFQC radio in Saskatoon in 1955.As a sportscaster, Wittman covered many sports including athletics,...

  • Bryan D. Wood
  • Larry Wood
  • Nora Wood
  • Pappy Wood
    Pappy Wood
    D. J. Howard "Pappy" Wood, Sr. was a Canadian curler.Wood played ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer in his youth, but is most notable for his curling achievements.One of Wood's most notable feats is participating in 71...

  • Emily Woolley
  • Muriel Youngson


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