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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1950
Page
4
Sealed tenders will be received by the undersigned up to February 1 for the installation of a double unit modern indoor toilet at Springbrook School. Digging not included. Work to be completed and installation finished by August 1 1950. For details apply to undersigned. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Hotel, Phone 152, Austin.
A historical overview tracks curling from Scottish roots to royal patronage. It notes the 1842 Palace of Scone demonstration for Prince Albert, the Grand Caledonian Curling Club becoming Royal, and the global reach from Leeds to Canada and the United States with key figures and milestones.
Ontario club founded in Galt 1838. With settler rush to the prairies the Royal formed in Winnipeg 1888. Its annual bonspiel became a Mecca for curlers from Manitoba and beyond Nipawin Edmonton and other western centres followed suit. The old curling toast proclaims rivalry and good fellowship.
The Portage la Prairie United Church WMS held its executive meeting on February 3 with 14 members from Kelwood Neepawa Bagot Gladstone Arden Portage and Carberry. Mrs B MacKenzie led as president and reports showed growth in memberships and missions funding though overall giving fell short of the 1950 target.
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