Manitoba Organization: Morden Curling Club

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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.

Presidents

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	Rick McElroy
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

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This page was prepared by Rick Mutton and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 25 October 2022