Club: North Grenville Curling Club

200 Ruben Crescent

Kemptville, Ontario

K0G 1J0, Canada

Phone: 613-258-4100

Email:

Founded: 1989 (actual club opened in 2005)

Brief History: The North Grenville Curling Club was originally founded in September 1989 as the Kemptville & District Curling Association. This was well before the amalgamation of Kemptville, South Gower and Oxford-on-Rideau and the eventual change of the area's name to the Municipality of North Grenville. In four short months, from November 1989through February 1990, the Association attracted 160 members. With the development of the North Grenville Municipal Centre the opportunity to establish a curling facility in the old hockey arena began to develop. After several years of discussions with the municipality an agreement was established in the spring of 2005 and the keys to the facility were received on June 1, 2005. After that a dedicated team of volunteers worked many hard hours at refurbishing the facility for the successful fall 2005 grand opening. As well, icemaker Shorty Jenkins was brought in to help NGCC icemaker Steve Dunne convert the existing hockey arena into what is today the existing 5 sheet curling facility.

Accomplishments:

  • Hosts the Ladies OVCA Fall Classic every November a WCT event drawing women’s teams from all over Canada and the world to compete.
  • In 2008 Stephanie Brown won the Ontario Provincial Women’s Bantam title in the clubs third year.
  • Home of the current President of the Canadian Branch of the Royal Caledonia Curling Club Jeremy MacDonald, as well as Past President Lester McInnis.

City: North Grenville, Ontario

Population:15,000 (Canada 2011 Census)

Attractions: Arena, Library, Agricultural College,

soccer complex, North Grenville Sports Hall of Fame,

Kemptville District Hospital

History: It was originally settled by

Lyman Clothier in 1804-1805. He and his

four sons built a lumber mill that facilitated the construction of dwellings in the area. In 1829 the name Kemptville was officially adopted for the area as a tribute to Sir James Kempt who was the Governor of British North America at the time. He had toured the area in 1828 to review changes to the Rideau Canal. Prior to being named Kemptville, the area was known as The Branch and Clothier Mills after the mill that was located in the town. A weekly newspaper is published in Kemptville, called the Kemptville Advance, and has been published since 1855. The Kemptville Advance celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2005. In 1854 the Bytown and Prescott Railway Corporation rail service reached Kemptville and was one of the main reasons that Kemptville was able to grow in population.

The population in the old town Kemptville which is about 3.5 square kilometers is currently around 3500. North Grenville is roughly 55 KM south of Ottawa and houses the Kemptville Campus of the University of Guelph.

North Grenville is an amalgamation, dating from 1998, of the old Oxford-on-Rideau and South Gower Townships, along with the Town of Kemptville.