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The Mayflower Curling Club is a curling club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was established in 1905. Since 1962, the club has been located at 3000 Monaghan Drive.
Mayflower Curling Club | |
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Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Arena | 3000 Monaghan Dr, Halifax, NS |
Information | |
Established | 1905 |
Club type | Dedicated Ice |
Curling Canada region | Nova Scotia Curling Association |
Sheets of ice | Six |
Rock colours | Red and Yellow |
Website | https://mayflowercc.com/ |
The club is one of the premier curling rinks in Nova Scotia, being home to teams headed by Colleen Jones, Mark Dacey, Shawn Adams, and Heather Smith-Dacey. The club was host for the curling events during the 2011 Canada Winter Games.
In 1912 the club's then-premises on Agricola Street was used as a temporary morgue for the bodies of Titanic disaster victims recovered from the North Atlantic by the Halifax-based ship the CS Mackay-Bennett, as it was the only site in the city that was both sufficiently large and cold enough for the task.[1] Following the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the devastated Agricola Street rinks were rebuilt.
In 2006, the Mayflower began hosting the Loose Ends Curling League, an LGBT league that is a member of the Canadian Pride Curling Association.[2] In 2010, the league was hosting its Bluenose Bonspiel when Hurricane Earl hit the city—then-MP Justin Trudeau, whose regular events were cancelled, joined the bonspiel.[2] Loose Ends and the Mayflower have twice hosted the Canadian Pride Curling Championships, most recently in 2023.[3]
In 2022, members of the club voted to sell the property and build a new ice facility in Timberlea, Nova Scotia.[4]
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