| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2436 | | TITLE: | Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association fonds | | CREATOR: | Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association | | DATE RANGE: | 1921-1992 | | EXTENT: | 2.04 m of textual records, ca. 450 photographs | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | There appears to have been organized curling in Edmonton around the turn of the last century; in 1925 the Alberta Ladies' Curling Association was formed in order to promote ladies bonspiels. In 1926 the name was changed to Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association. Up to 1944 the Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association in this Association. In 1944 this was changed and an Executive Council was formed to manage the Association.
In 1951 the T. Eaton Company decided to sponsor local curling competitions. Because of
this sponsorship, the Eaton Northern Alberta Curling Association, a branch of the
Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association, was formed in 1953 in order to administer
ladies championship curling. In the following years Eaton sponsored Western Canada
curling championships as well as interprovincial competitions. In 1954 the Northern
Alberta Ladies' Curling Association and the Eaton Northern Alberta Curling Association
helped to send an Alberta ladies rink to the British Empire Games.
Plans began in 1958 to form a Canadian Ladies' Curling Association and affected the Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association and the Western Canadian Ladies' Curling Association. These last two groups were loosely structured and had grown out of the efforts to organize interprovincial and western competitions. At first the ladies curling organizations from Western Canada were hesitant to help form a national association partly because their major sponsor, the T. Eaton Company, was reluctant to sponsor a national championship. Eastern curling associations were divided on the question, partly because of dissension among the groups and partly because of disagreement as to who the sponsor should be. Consequently a motion to support a national ladies curling organization was defeated in 1959 at a meeting of ladies curling associations from across Canada. However in early 1960 the attitudes toward forming a national organization changed and Western associations agreed to support a national organization, partly because Eaton gave up sponsorship of ladies curling associations. As a result of this withdrawal of patronage, the Eaton Northern Alberta Curling Association was amalgamated with the Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association in 1960.
The Canadian Ladies Curling Association was formed in Toronto in 1960. In the same year the Western Canadian Ladies' Curling Association was dissolved because the national championships took the place of western competitions. The development of the national association was facilitated by the agreement of the Dominion Stores Ltd and the MacDonald Tobacco Inc. to sponsor national and provincial championships. was managed by one member of each local club participating in bonspiels and included
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of records maintained, collected, and created by the Northern Alberta Ladies' Curling Association, including minutes, correspondence, financial records, annual reports, promotional material, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings. This fonds includes also information, because of correspondence and activities such as championships involving various associations, on the following organizations: Canadian Girls Curling Association, Alberta Girls Curling Association, Northern Alberta Girls Curling Association, Western Canadian Ladies Curling Association, and Canadian Ladies Curling Association. | | LANGUAGE NOTE: | The material is in English | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history was taken from the records and from the Northern Alberta Curling Association website visited on March 6, 2008 at the following address:
Http://www.northernalbertacurling.com/history/Women
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