Oldest continuous sports association in North America celebrates a 200th anniversary (Montreal Gazette)
From the Montreal Gazette:
The Royal Montreal Curling Club, at 1850 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., is the oldest continuous sports association in North America and will mark its 200th anniversary on Jan. 22.
The club's origins date back to the winter of 1807, when a group of local merchants, hardy souls, gathered on a weekly basis to curl on a patch of ice on the St. Lawrence River near Molson's Brewery.
Playing with "irons" made from melted cannon balls, and household brooms, they more than kept alive a game first introduced in Quebec by Scottish regiments stationed here in the late 1700s.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=339c3123-57b1-4cd7-9ddd-f57461777831&k=54688
The Royal Montreal Curling Club, at 1850 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., is the oldest continuous sports association in North America and will mark its 200th anniversary on Jan. 22.
The club's origins date back to the winter of 1807, when a group of local merchants, hardy souls, gathered on a weekly basis to curl on a patch of ice on the St. Lawrence River near Molson's Brewery.
Playing with "irons" made from melted cannon balls, and household brooms, they more than kept alive a game first introduced in Quebec by Scottish regiments stationed here in the late 1700s.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=339c3123-57b1-4cd7-9ddd-f57461777831&k=54688
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