Winnipeg’s Granite Club to host 2025 Canadian Curling Club Championships

An iconic curling facility with more than 110 years of history will play host to the 2025 Canadian Curling Club Championships, it was announced today by Curling Canada.

The event will be played Nov. 18-23 at Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club, which opened its doors in 1913 and is popularly known as The Mother Club for Curling in Winnipeg.

“It’s truly fitting that a club with as much history as the Granite Curling Club gets the opportunity to host one of our most popular and meaningful events,” said Nolan Thiessen, Chief Executive Officer of Curling Canada. “The Canadian Curling Club Championships give opportunities to grassroots curlers across Canada to enjoy a national championship experience, and they’ll have a truly special setting in 2025 at the Mother Club in Winnipeg.”

Women’s and men’s champions from Curling Canada’s 14 Member Associations will be competing in Winnipeg in the 16th edition of the Canadian Curling Championships.

While the Granite Club building was opened in 1913, the club itself had already been in existence for three decades.

“We’re thrilled to welcome the 2025 Canadian Curling Club Championship to the Curling Capital of the World,” said Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham. “This city lives and breathes the game, and I know Winnipeggers will give curlers from across Canada a warm and enthusiastic welcome.”

It will be the second time Winnipeg has hosted the Canadian Curling Club Championships. In 2023 at the Assiniboine Memorial Club, New Brunswick’s Team Abby Burgess (Oromocto) won the women’s title while Alberta’s Team Dan Sherrard (Beaumont) claimed the men’s championship.

In the history of the Canadian Curling Club Championships, Manitoba has won a leading four women’s titles, including Team Meghan Armit from the Granite Club winning in 2011 at Richmond, B.C.

Alberta and Ontario teams have each won three women’s titles.

On the men’s side, Manitoba is still seeking its first Canadian Curling Club Championship. Ontario leads the way with five men’s titles, followed closely by Alberta with four.

“The Granite Curling Club is excited for the opportunity to host the 2025 Canadian Curling Club Championships,” said Host Committee Chair Warren Reimer. “The ‘Mother Club’, founded in Winnipeg in 1880, is the traditional centre of excellence promoting the sport of curling in a positive friendly atmosphere for all ages and abilities. The Tudor-framed clubhouse, with its arching rink to the rear, is the province’s oldest curling institution and one of the oldest sporting groups in the province, and is now considered a Heritage Building by the City of Winnipeg. We look forward to welcoming curlers and fans from across the country to spend a week in our city and our beautiful curling club.”

At the 2024 Canadian Curling Club Championships in Barrie, Ont., Nova Scotia’s Team Michelle Armstrong (Lower Sackville) and Ontario’s Team Jordan Keon (Richmond Hill) were crowned women’s and men’s national champions.

“We’re excited to be welcoming the Canadian Curling Club Championships back to Manitoba in 2025 and I know the Granite Club will do a superb job,” said Craig Baker, Executive Director of CurlManitoba. “There is a dedicated group of volunteers who will be working tirelessly to make the event memorable for curlers and fans alike at our most historic club.”