Meaford Curling Club

10/22/2026

Some reminders for our experienced curlers. And some tips for all of our First Time Curlers as we officially start the 26/27 season on Monday 🥌

10/20/2026

Practice times for this week! 🥌
Note: For paid members only.

Also, today is the last day to register for the season. ✔️www.meafordcurling.ca

If you would like to register in person, we will be at the club from 6:30-8pm tonight (Tues Oct 20th)

10/18/2026

MEET THE MEMBERS - Part 9

Name: Laura Sparling
First Membership Year : 2025/2026
Any previous curling experience before joining MCC: Yes, many years ago in high school and again for a season in 2015 in the great dark North.
Why you decided to join MCC: Physical activity, socialising, and competition!
Favourite part of MCC: The Ice Master
Favourite (or least favourite) curling shot to make: I'm just happy if it crosses the hog line and doesn't fly through the house.
Favourite player to watch: Locally it would have to be Annie Lessard, she's got impeccable form.
Favourite excuse for not making your shot: I'm left-handed, this world was not designed for people like me.

10/18/2026

We had a great turnout at our OPEN HOUSE/MIX AND MINGLE yesterday. Everyone is getting excited for the upcoming curling season. It was so nice to see so many new faces interested in joining the club this year. And a great time seeing our 'winter friends' again. 🥌

The Mayor came out to help us celebrate 150 years of the Meaford Curling Club. 🥂 🎂

Registration closes on Oct 20th, and you can register online www.meafordcurling.ca

You have one more chance to register in person on Oct 20th from 6:30 - 8pm at the club.

Cheers to the 26/27 season!

10/16/2026

MEET THE MEMBERS - Part 8

Name: Fiona MacRae
First Membership Year : 2022
Any previous curling experience before joining MCC: 14 years at Brampton, Bramalea, Acton curling clubs
Why you decided to join MCC: My dad curled at MCC in the 90s and I played in the Country Classic league when I would come up to visit on weekends.
Favourite part of MCC: It is a really nice group of people
Favourite or least favourite curling shot to make: I don’t make them often but a solid takeout is my favourite.
Favourite player to watch: The newest curler who is enthusiastic about learning.
Favourite excuse for not making your shot: The sun was in my eyes.

10/13/2026

Want to TRY CURLING before you sign up for a whole season? Curious if curling is for you? What is this strange sport all about anyway? Throw some rocks at other rocks...? 😆

Come out on Sunday Oct 18th, from 1-3pm for a FREE CLINIC and give it a shot! We will have members on hand to guide you through an INTRO SESSION and see what this sport is all about! We will also have people demonstrating different deliveries, making it accommodating for just about anyone to try.🥌

How to sign up-

*Come out to our OPEN HOUSE/MIX AND MINGLE on Sat Oct 17th from 4-7pm and sign up there 🎉

*Send an email to Kelly at [email protected] to reserve your spot

Note: Please bring clean indoor grippy shoes and comfortable pants you can move in and if you bring gloves- leather or another 'non-shedding' material only please (this helps keep our ice clean)

Looking forward to seeing you!

Our OPEN HOUSE/MIX AND MINGLE is Sat Oct 17th from 4-7pm
Registration is open until Oct 20th
www.meafordcurling.com

10/12/2026

Rings are in.....almost ready to go!

10/10/2026

MEET THE MEMBERS - Part 7

Name: Jennifer Pearson
First Membership Year: 1981

Any previous curling experience before joining MCC: I always signed up for High School Curling - an after school curling league was held on Fridays….and I also got to curl on several Georgian Bay Secondary School teams in the ‘70s. When I was a student at University of Guelph, I joined their recreational curling league.

Why you decided to join MCC: When I came ‘home’ to Meaford after university I was looking for fun!
Favourite part of MCC: Being part of the club is a great way to meet new people and reconnect with friends from the past.
I also enjoy working with young people in the After School learn to curl program and with classes from our local school that visit as part of their phys.ed. program.
Family and Fun Bonspiels are always a highlight!

Favourite or least favourite curling shot to make: I like trying them all!! Not always successful, but good to try!

Favourite player to watch: I always liked to watch Jennifer Jones, Brent Laing, and Brad Gushue.....and enjoy watching Rachel Homan & Brad Jacobs among others now.

"Being part of the Meaford Curling Club has always been a great experience that helps make the winter go by quickly! Since it is a volunteer club, I encourage new & experienced curlers to join in as much as they can! Being a board member in the past gave me a different outlook on the workings of the club. Kitchen work, bartending, and volunteering to 'teach' the sport have always been interesting!
This is 'our club' and we all need to make it the best we can!!!"

10/09/2026

How curling came to Canada

When the Scots reached Canada, they looked at the frozen rivers and saw exactly what they had left behind: a curling rink. ❄️

In 1807 a group of Scottish merchants in Montreal founded the Montreal Curling Club, and it is often called the oldest active sporting club in North America. They played on the ice of the St Lawrence, in tam o' shanters and thick woollen stockings, with the same shouts and the same fierce arguments over the last stone that rang across Scottish lochs every hard winter.

Curling went wherever the Scots went in Canada. Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes and later the prairies all had clubs, and a bonspiel on a frozen lake could bring whole communities out onto the ice. For an emigrant far from home, there was nothing quite like hearing a stone running true and a skip roaring "soop!" in a broad Scots voice.

Today Canada is the greatest curling nation on earth. And it all began with a few homesick Scots who refused to let a good winter go to waste. 🥌

10/08/2026

Come out to our OPEN HOUSE/MIX AND MINGLE and help us celebrate 150 years of our Club! 🎉

Current members, alumni of the Club, fans of curling....all are welcome 😀

This is a great time for NEW CURLERS to meet some members and have a chance to ask any questions. We will also have people on hand to help with registration. 🥌

Plus, there will be cake! 🎂

See you there! Cheers to the 26/27 season!!! 🍻
www.meafordcurling.ca