Manitoba Organization: Civic Curling Club

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This club was organized for the 1904-1905 primarily with employees of the City of Winnipeg. Harry C. Thompson and Magnus Peterson were the chief organizers. The club's original location was on McDermot Avenue just south of the Winnipeg General Hospital but the last few years of the First World War had them renting ice at the Auditorium Rink at the corner of York Avenue and Garry Street. In 1920, they moved to a new club with seven sheets on Pacific Avenue. Unfortunately, in 1931 that facility was destroyed by fire and they went back to being a renter until 1938 when they joined with the Caledonian Curling Club to form the Civic Caledonian Curling Club, in a new rink at 348 Sherbrook Street.

Presidents

Period

President

1904-1905

Harry Cowan Thompson (1879-1946)

1905-1906

Robert Houston Smith (1875-1926)

1906-1907

John Samuel Nicholas (1864-1938)

1907-1908

Samuel H. Reynolds (c1859-1916)

1907-1909

John Henry “John” Curle (1877-1958)

1909-1910

David R. Finkelstein (1880-1952)

1910-1911

Byron “Byde” Hallock (1876-1921)

1911-1912

Magnus Peterson (1883-1935)

1912-1913

Leo Will Donley (1880-1976)

1913-1914

J. Smith

1914-1915

Alexander Brown Neilson (1881-1930)

1915-1916

John Albert “Jack” Wakefield (1886-1969)

1916-1917

Robert Orr White (1872-1931)

1917-1918

William John Beer (1870-1921)

1918-1921

Richard James “Dick” Buckingham (1864-1947)

1921-1923

Albert Lee “Pat” Cavanagh (1889-1951)

1923-1924

Edward James Pope (1883-1937)

1924-1925

John Millar (1880-1952)

1925-1926

Robert Ridd (1863-1935)

1926-1927

James McHardy (1871-1942)

1927-1928

William Robert “Bill” McAlpine (1886-1956)

1928-1929

Alfred Harold Stanbridge (1883-1962)

1929-1930

George Park Jamieson (1889-1955)

1930-1931 

Frederick Joseph “Fred” Malby (1885-1947)

1931-1932

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1932-1933

Peter Hoey Dickson (1881-1946)

1933-1934

William George DeSavigny (1885-1954)

1934-1935

Robert Picard Webster (1889-1980)

1935-1936

John Albert Ball (1881-1954)

1936-1938

Wilfred Mathew “Wilf” Young (1882-1972)

After 1938

See Civic Caledonian Curling Club

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Caledonian Curling Club

Manitoba Organization: Civic Caledonian Curling Club

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This page was prepared by Rick Mutton and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 January 2024