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Curling started in Morden in 1883 and the first club was organized in 1887. Henry Peter Hansen (1856-1931) was the chief organizer. The Morden Curling Club was one of the seven clubs involved in the formation of the Manitoba Branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC), forerunner of the Manitoba Curling Association, in 1888.
At first curling was played outdoors, the first structure was built in 1889. The club then purchased a plot of land from the Canadian Pacific Railway on South Railway Street, a three-sheet rink that doubled for skating was built. That structure was destroyed by a tornado in 1911. A two sheet club was built in 1912, between Ninth and Tenth streets. The club added a third sheet in the 1930s.
The current rink on Second Street was started in September 1958 and, four months later, the first stones were thrown. The following year, artificial ice was installed in the five-sheet structure.
In 1948, the Morden High School team of Stan Gowling (?-2000), Norman Stewart, Ross Topley (1931-2015), and Jack Borthwick (1930-2017) won the Manitoba High Schools Curling Championship and went on to win the Western Canada Inter-Provincial High Schools Championship.
Period
President
1888-1890
Dugald Neil McMillan (1842-1915)
1890-1891
Henry Peter Hansen (1856-1931)
1891-1892
Thomas Duncan (1849-1910)
1892-1895
Henry Peter Hansen (1856-1931)
1895-1896
George Ashdown (1851-1939)
1896-1897
William Conner (1855-1933)
1897-1898
Peter Livingston (1852-1928)
1898-1899
T. T. Thompson
1899-1901
Dugald Neil McMillan (1842-1915)
1901-1902
William Conner (1855-1933)
1902-1903
Charles Rubidge Dunsford (1846-1928)
1903-1904
J. F. Morden
1904-1906
John Thomas Acheson (1859-1939)
1906-1907
David Kilgour (1860-1929)
1907-1908
James Aaron Hobbs (1863-1932)
1908-1909
Robert Thomas Hewitt (1864-1931)
1909-1910
James Stirton (1847-1927)
1910-1911
Charles Watson Whitlam (1877-1964)
1911-1912
John Hugh Kennedy (1867-1927)
1912-1913
George Herbert Bray (1878-1966)
1913-1914
James Wilkinson Collins (1873 -1956)
1914-1915
Lamert Stephen Young (1885 -1954)
1915-1916
Clarence Currie Everson (1884-1942)
1916-1917
Archibald Weir (1864-1928)
1917-1918
A. Atkins
1918-1919
Herbert Stoddart (1877-1953)
1919-1920
A. A. McLean
1920-1921
W. M. Livingston
1921-1922
Douglas Clyde Atkins (1893-1960)
1922-1923
Harold Edward Acheson (1891-1957)
1923-1924
George Jickling (1869-1963)
1924-1925
Alexander W. Livingston (1891-1966)
1925-1926
John Campbell McCorquodale (1888-1968)
1926-1927
A. J. Livingston
1927-1928
Walter Stafford Goode (1887-1966)
1928-1929
George Nicholson Bonny (1903-1972)
1929-1930
W. J. Acheson
1930-1934
Archibald “Archie” MacAulay (1887-1970)
1934-1935
Bert H. Emerson
1935-1936
Louis A. Hartje
1936-1937
George S. McCorquodale (1886-1962)
1937-1938
R. Bay McKennitt (1900-1986)
1938-1939
Vernon Wilfrid Baker (1893-1953)
1939-1940
William James Breakey (1895-1979)
1940-1941
Murdo MacLean (1891-1967)
1941-1942
I. J. Weidl
1942-1944
Harold J. Gray (1905-1961)
1944-1945
Harvey Alfred “Honey” Cochlan (1894-1967)
1945-1946
James Baillie (1907-1989)
1946-1947
John Geib (1892-1981)
1947-1948
Henry Loeppky (1903-1967)
1948-1949
Stanley Gowling (1901-1985)
1949-1950
William Edgerton McIntosh (1902-1970)
1950-1952
Bruce Franklin Farquharson (1912-1978)
1952-1953
William F. Larke (1916-1994)
1953-1955
Albert Lechner (1911-1995)
1955-1956
Henry Leoppky (1903-1967)
1956-1957
Harry Allan Sandy (1914-1974)
1957-1958
Bruce Fargey (1921-2000)
1958-1959
Denis Loeppky (?-1986)
1959-1960
Lloyd Smith Andrews (1925-2009)
1960-1961
Joseph Fraser
1960-1961
Jack Alfred Bryson (1929-1994)
1961-1962
John Alton “Jack” Duncan (1932-2007)
1962-1963
Harold “Weldon” Ridley (1933-2008)
1963-1964
Richard Henry Willcocks (1912-1988)
1964-1965
Ramsay Alexander Monaghan (1923-2004)
1965-1966
Edward W. Maddock
1966-1967
John Douglas Sawatsky (1926-2022)
1966-1968
Stanford “Stan” Jenkins (1919-2004)
1968-1969
Hazelton Herbert “Haze” Shore (1937-2021)
1969-1970
Howard Sager
1970-1971
Arnold Deere
1971-1972
Lorne Campbell Kyle (1937-2020)
1972-1973
Ed Young
1973-1974
Melvin Peter “Mel” Reimer (1942-2015)
1974-1975
Lyle Lumgair (1935-2005)
1975-1976
James Kinnear “Jim” Duncan (1928-2021)
1976-1977
Douglas Fraser “Doug” Cram (1946-1997)
1977-1978
Al Mensch
1978-1980
Archie E. Miller (1936-2018)
1980-1982
Jim Glenn
1982-1983
Dave Parkes
1983-1985
Rickey Charles “Rick” McElroy (1952-2023)
1985-1986
Terry Holliston
1986-1987
Richard Lee “Rick” Jolin (1945-2015)
1987-1988
Jamie Hartry
1988-1989
Rob Dudgeon
1989-1991
Brian Sager
1991-1992
Ruth Northam
1992-1993
Larry Mestagh
1993-1994
Ray Kirk
1994-1995
Todd Ehnes
1995-1996
Armand Juenke
1996-1997
Ken Friesen
1997-1998
David Hartry
1998-1999
Gary Willcocks
1999-2000
Tina Scott
2000-2001
Dale Jamieson
2001-2002
Kevin Cullen
2002-2003
Sheri Hyde
2003-2005
David Hartry
2005-2006
Ron Booker
2006-2010
David Hartry
2010-2016
Lynn Sandercock
2016-?
Dr. Kevin Convery
This page was prepared by Rick Mutton and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 January 2024
