Roblin-Curling-Rink near Summers Corners ON (6 Result(s))

In 1953 when the Campbell's and Richardson's were emerging as a curling dynasty in Canada and a lot of publicity was being generated, Aylmer caught the bug and in the spring of 1954 Jack Rice, Curly Giles, Syd Glover, Morris Kennedy, Stu McBrian, Harvey Balfour, Red Cassils & myself (& I think Bill Sapalec) met upstairs in the relatively new Aylmer & East Elgin Arena.

The records show that the ''roar'' of curling began in Simcoe in 1873 when a group of hardy souls formed a club to curl outdoors on Sutton's Pond. The ''social'' aspects of the game in that era were enjoyed at the Battersby House, declared by a visiting St. T