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By 1839, Curling grew prominent enough within the country for vendors in Toronto to be selling custom and local made granite stones for the sport. In 1840, "The Canadian Curler's Manual" by James Bicket, secretary of the Toronto Curling Club [ 6 ] was published, making it Canada's first book on curling.
On 4 September 1939, curling stone manufacturer Andrew Kay & Co. sent a cablegram to its sales representative in Toronto stating, "We now learn that the Athenia was this morning sunk off the coast of Scotland, and we regret that the finest consignment of curling stones that have ever yet left our factory has gone with it."
The 2024 Stu Sells Toronto Tankard was held from October 10 to 14 at the High Park Club in Toronto with select games taking place at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario. [1] The event was held in a triple knockout format with a purse of $42,000 on the men's side and $40,000 on the women's side.
A shipment of 278 Kays Excelsior Ailsa curling stones destined for three curling clubs in Canada was among the cargo of the SS Athenia passenger liner when a torpedo from a German submarine sank her in the Western Approaches on 3 September 1939. This was the first British ship to be sunk by Germany during World War II. [13]
The women's event became a World Curling Tour event in 2016, but was also discontinued in 2020. Both the men's and women's events are also part of the Ontario Curling Tour. The event is held at the High Park Club in Toronto, excluding 2023 when it was moved to Barrie under the name Stu Sells Tankard. [2]
The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots (and English) verb curl, [11] which describes the motion of the stone. Group of people curling on a lake in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, c. 1897. Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716; [12] it is still in existence today. [13]