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Curling Stone

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Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: stone; metal; amber; skin; wood

Catalogue Number: 108.04.0024 a-c

Description: Pair granite stones with amber handles and storage box. (a,b) curling stones 27.0 diameter, polished granite, an unpolished band ca. 4.0 wide runs around the middle. Scalloped edged leather padding under the steel handle, hand grip 5.5 long x 2.6 diameter is of amber. (c) sturdy wooden box, 67.5 x …

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Title: Curling Stone

Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: stone; metal; amber; skin; wood

Description: Pair granite stones with amber handles and storage box. (a,b) curling stones 27.0 diameter, polished granite, an unpolished band ca. 4.0 wide runs around the middle. Scalloped edged leather padding under the steel handle, hand grip 5.5 long x 2.6 diameter is of amber. (c) sturdy wooden box, 67.5 x 29.0 x 35.5. 2 compartments modified to hold each rock secure. Hinged lid, 2 handles and lock of metal. Brass letters "DW" nailed on to front of box.

Subject: activities; sports; winter; curling; Dave White

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 108.04.0024 a-c

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Curling Stone

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Date: prior to 1940

Material: wood; stone; metal

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1077 a-c

Description: (a) One typical curling stone, grey granite, steel handle with red leather and a black bakelite handle. (b) Other is an oval shaped grey granite natural stone of similar shape and size.(c) Box has hinged lid (broken off), 2 compartments. Painted reddish brown. Hand painted on front "T.R.C. Banff…

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Title: Curling Stone

Date: prior to 1940

Material: wood; stone; metal

Description: (a) One typical curling stone, grey granite, steel handle with red leather and a black bakelite handle. (b) Other is an oval shaped grey granite natural stone of similar shape and size.(c) Box has hinged lid (broken off), 2 compartments. Painted reddish brown. Hand painted on front "T.R.C. Banff".

Subject: sports; winter; curling; Jack Campbell

Credit: Gift of Ken Campbell, Qualicum Beach, 1987

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1077 a-c

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Curling Stone

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Date: 1900 – 1910

Material: stone; metal; skin; ivory

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1014 a,b

Description: Two heavy, oblate stone spheres with handles on top. Highly polished granite, wide rough band horizontally around sides. Heavy, curved open handle parallel to rock in middle of top, screws to metal supporting rod passing vertically through rock. Ivory handle grip swivels on metal support. Thick…

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Title: Curling Stone

Date: 1900 – 1910

Material: stone; metal; skin; ivory

Dimensions: 18.0 cm

Description: Two heavy, oblate stone spheres with handles on top. Highly polished granite, wide rough band horizontally around sides. Heavy, curved open handle parallel to rock in middle of top, screws to metal supporting rod passing vertically through rock. Ivory handle grip swivels on metal support. Thick embossed leather disk at base of handle stamped in gold "Wm. Mather Banff" (a,b)

Subject: sports; winter; curling; William Mather; Enoch Smith; Banff Curling Club; Seebe Curling Club

Credit: Gift of Robert N. Smith, Canmore, 1983

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1014 a,b

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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press

Call Number: 08.1 Ab3n

Responsibility: Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp

Publisher: Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 239 pages ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canada; History-Canada; Sport; Curling; Olympic games; Alpinism; Fishing; Rodeos

Abstract: In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.