Charles H. Scrymgeour – Curler / Builder

Few curlers have combined a successful competitive career with leadership of the sport the way Charlie Scrymgeour has done.

From a beginning with the juniors in 1914 at the Winnipeg – St. John’s Curling Club, he reached the pinnacle of competitive curling when he curled in and won the Macdonald Brier in 1942 as a member of the Ken Watson team.

In 1943, the team repeated as Manitoba Champion but there was no Brier because the war was underway so Charlie missed his return trip. He curled with Ken Watson from 1942 through 1946. They won five Manitoba Curling Association bonspiel Grand Aggregates and had main event wins three times in the Birks-Dingwall event and three times in the Eaton event.

In addition to on-ice success, Charlie’s contributions to the sport at the club, provincial and national level were significant. He was a member of the St. John’s, Strathcona, Thistle and Deer Lodge Clubs and served as President of the Thistle Curling Club in 1957-58 – a decade after he had first been elected to serve on the Manitoba Curling Association Executive Council. Since the early 60’s he has been closely identified with the Deer Lodge Club and the Manitoba Curling Association. He is a Honourary Life Member of the Deer Lodge Curling Club ( 1974 ) as well as the Manitoba Curling Association (1965 ). He is also a member of the Governor General’s Curling Club.

As an Association Council member from 1947-1954, Charlie was actively involved in the Junior committee and the Ice and Draw committee. He served as the drawmaster and committee member for the Manitoba Schools’ bonspiel for nearly 40 years beginning in the early 1940’s. He served as Secretary of the Schoolboy Curling Championship and then as secretary of the Dominion Curling Association, predecessor to the Canadian Curling Association. In all he spent about 25 years as a volunteer and later employee at the national level

Charlie was Inducted into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Hame in 1996.

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