Silver Fox to host 2009 Canadian Seniors.
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 by derekm

OTTAWA, April 21, 2008…The Canadian Curling Association today announced the dates and sites for the 2009 Canadian Seniors, 2009 Canadian Wheelchair and the 2010 Canadian Mixed curling championships.

The 2009 Canadian senior men’s and women’s championships will be held, once again, at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, March 22-29.  

Prince Edward Island previously hosted the 1976 Canadian senior women’s and 1982 Canadian senior men’s, both in Charlottetown, before Summerside staged the 2006 Canadian Seniors, won that year by Ontario’s Anne Dunn and Northern Ontario’s Al Hackner, who then represented Canada at the 2007 world seniors in Edmonton, where both finished second.

Manitoba has won a leading 10 Canadian senior men’s crowns since the event began in 1965 in Port Arthur, Ontario.   Prince Edward Island has three victories, all by skip Wen MacDonald.   Ontario has won a leading 10 women’s titles since the inaugural championship in 1973 in Ottawa, while ‘The Island’ has yet to win one, though.  The men’s and women’s events were held separately until being combined in 1985 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

The 2009 winners will then represent Canada at the 2010 world seniors, at a site and date to be announced.  This year’s Canadian Seniors winners, Saskatchewan’s