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Our Club Biography
About The Club
The Carman Golf and Curling Club (CGCC) is located in Carman, Manitoba. Our club features a beautiful restaurant with an attached patio, a 200-capacity banquet facility, a five-sheet curling arena, and an 18-hole golf course. Both the golf course and curling club have been recognized as top-notch clubs, hosting many prestigious provincial and local events.
The club was originally established on May 12, 1924 as a five hole club. In the spring of 1930 land was purchased and nine holes were opened on the”old side”.
On August 28, 1953 the first tournament was held. The course began production on the “new 11 holes” in 1982 and opened the 18 Hole Golf Course in the spring of 1984. On August 17, 1990 the new clubhouse officially opened and is enjoyed today!
Formerly two clubs, the CGCC amalgamated its executive and combined all operations to become a year-round facility managed by a general manager that offers something for everyone.
Carman Golf and Curling Club is known as a select destination for golf in the summer and curling in the winter months.
Our History of Curling
The Carman Curling Club was established in 1882. The first curling rink in Carman was built in 1893 across from the present Catholic church site. It was occupied for two or three years. When the roof collapsed due to a flat roof structure, a temporary rink was built north of the railway tracks and used for two years.
In 1900, an indoor skating rink was built at the corner of Walnut St. and Villiard St. (as it was known at the time), the present site of the Janzen Pontiac dealership. It had one sheet of curling ice on either side of the skating ice. About 1926, this building was condemned, the roof removed, and the ice surface used for outdoor skating.
A new building was constructed on the same site in 1928. This time, it had a metal roof consisting of three sheets of curling ice on the arena's north side. Dan McIvor built this rink. There was a restaurant across the street in the building on the corner north of the Memorial Hall called the Carmania, and the skaters would cross the street in their skates to buy candy and ice cream. In the early days, a curler owned his own curling rocks and would have to transport them to and from the rink to any out-of-town bonspiels. They did not always match in terms of size and sometimes there would be disputes when taking a measurement.
Carman Curlers were well known in the province even early in the century. The Royal Caledonia Tankard from the Winnipeg Bonspiel of 1913 is displayed in the Carman Museum. The winners: R J. Kellet, H. Robson, E.J. Ryall and Thos. Richardson represented the Carman Curling Club.
The next location for the Carman Curling Club was housed in the Carman Agricultural Colosseum which was constructed in 1961. This complex was financed through a federal government grant and assistance from the Town of Carman and R.M. of Dufferin. The artificial ice plant for the curling rink was provided by the Curling Club.
In 2011, the two clubs (golf and curling) combined to have one governing board and changed the name to Carman Golf and Curling Club.
Curling from the club level up to the provincial and national levels has seen members of various Carman curling clubs excel. Men's and Ladies', Senior's, Junior's, and Mixed rinks from Carman have been zone and provincial champions. Men and women from the area have also served in various capacities on the executives of the Manitoba Curling Association and Manitoba Ladies Curling Association; however, the backbone of any club is the once—or twice-weekly curler.