The 1972 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 6 to 11, 1972 at St. John's Arena in St. John's, Newfoundland. Team...
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Canadian restaurant chain. "Brier" originally referred to a brand of tobacco sold by the event's first sponsor, the Macdonald Tobacco Company. In 1924,...
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the second time the Brier was hosted by St. John's, the first being the 1972 Macdonald Brier. Newfoundland and Labrador won the Brier 7–6 in the final against...
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the 1972 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship. They were the first rink from the Ottawa area to do so. At the 1972 Brier, they...
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The 1973 Macdonald Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship was held from March 5 to 11, 1973 at the Klondike Gardens in Edmonton, Alberta...
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The 1971 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 1–6 at the 2,800 seat Pavilion de la Jeunesse in Quebec City, Quebec...
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Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is a book of short stories by Ian Maclaren published in 1894. It became a hugely popular bestseller. It is considered to...
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sponsored by the Labatt Brewing Company replacing the Macdonald Tobacco Company, who sponsored the Brier since the inaugural event in 1927 as the primary sponsor...
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John Hanesiak (category Brier champions)
Video: 1972 MacDonald Brier (St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador) (YouTube channel «Curling Canada») on YouTube 50th Anniversary of the 1972 World Curling...
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Jack MacDuff (category Brier champions)
Men's Curling Championship. MacDuff had previously played in the 1972 Macdonald Brier as the third for Team Newfoundland, which was skipped by Fred Durant...
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Pat Hailley (category Brier champions)
(born May 19, 1940) is a Canadian former curler. He played lead on the 1972 Brier Champion team (skipped by Orest Meleschuk), representing Manitoba. They...
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the first year the event was sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco, which was also the main sponsor of the Brier at the time, Canada's men's curling championship...
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Brent Giles (section Brier runner-up team (1978–1989))
the 1972 Macdonald Brier, finishing with a 5–5 record, tied for sixth. Giles left the Sparkes rink after the season, forming his own team for the 1972-73...
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Jim Pettapiece (category Brier champions)
Curling Championships and two Brier Championships in 1970 and 1971. Pettapiece also played in the 1973 Macdonald Brier playing second for the Danny Fink...
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Darwin Wark – 1959 Macdonald Brier participant Dennis Stephen – 1959 Macdonald Brier participant Leslie Sutton – 1959 Macdonald Brier participant John Jones...
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Maclaren's 1894 book Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush whose title alludes to the Jacobite song "There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard". Writers who...
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2009. Wolfe also curled, and represented British Columbia at the 1959 Macdonald Brier. Normandin, P G (1978). Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1978. "Electoral...
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Bernie Sparkes (category Brier champions)
Sports Hall of Fame Bernie Sparkes – Curling Canada Stats Archive Video: 1969 MacDonald Brier (Oshawa, Ontario) on YouTube (channel «Curling Canada»)...
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and 1965, and one national women's curling championship, in 1972. The 1946 Macdonald Brier was opened by Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas and was the...
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Scotties Tournament of Hearts (redirect from Macdonald Lassie)
in the Macdonald Tobacco Company, the same sponsor as the Brier. Their sponsorship began in 1972 with the tournament being called the "Macdonald Lassie"...
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from 1962 to 2011. The CBC began its curling coverage with the 1962 Macdonald Brier. From 2007 to 2011, it covered the Capital One Grand Slam of Curling...
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Dave Gerlach (category Brier champions)
Gerlach Misses Brier But Wins National Title". Ottawa Citizen. March 1, 1967. p. 14. Retrieved April 17, 2020. Patton, Paul (March 16, 1972). "Gerlach's...
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Dave Romano (category Brier champions)
(born June 1, 1940) is a Canadian former curler. He played third on the 1972 Brier Champion team (skipped by Orest Meleschuk), representing Manitoba. They...
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Svedka Vodka, Casa Noble Tequila and High West Whiskey, Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey. Constellation Brands has two breweries in Mexico that...
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1954. In 1958, it won the Prix de l'Âge d'or [fr] in Brussels. Samson De Brier as Shiva, Osiris, Nero, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Aleister Crowley (credited...
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Northern Ontario Men's Provincial Curling Championship (category The Brier provincial tournaments)
curling hub despite being a COVID-19 hotspot". Retrieved December 4, 2020. "MacDonald Brier: Teams". Northern Ontario Curling Association: Champions...
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1961 Diamond D Championship 1967 Grey Cup 1972 Memorial Cup 1976 Skate Canada International 1979 Macdonald Brier 1981 Skate Canada International 1987 Canadian...
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(1968 Macdonald Brier and 1968 Air Canada Silver Broom gold medallists) 1969: Ron Northcott, Dave Gerlach, Bernie Sparkes, Fred Storey (1969 Macdonald Brier...
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Art Lobel (category Brier champions)
is a Canadian curler from Montreal, Quebec. He was the third of the 1977 Brier Champion team, representing Quebec. He is a member of the Canadian Curling...
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Championship. In men's play, the arena hosted the 1979, 1993, 2001, and 2016 Brier men's championships. It also hosted the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts...
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