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1927
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Eight
teams from across Canada
gather at Toronto's
Granite Club for the first Brier, which was officially known as the
Dominion Curling Championship. Murray Macneill's
rink representing Halifax
win the Brier Tankard, donated for the event by the MacDonald Tobacco
Company.
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1928
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Field
increases to 10 and includes teams representing Manitoba
(Gordon Hudson's winning rink), Saskatchewan
and Alberta, which is represented by a Saskatchewan rink.
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1929
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Gordon
Hudson from the Strathcona Curling Club in Winnipeg becomes the
first to win two straight Briers and the first to go undefeated.
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1936
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British Columbia and Prince Edward Island send their first
entries to the Brier.
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1940
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Winnipeg becomes the first city other than Toronto to host the
Brier. A total of 26 other cities from St. John¹s to Victoria have since hosted the Brier.
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1943-45
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The
Brier is suspended due to Second World War.
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1949
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Ken
Watson of Manitoba becomes the first
three-time Brier with a perfect 9-0 record in Hamilton.
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1963
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Ernie Richardson
wins his record fourth Brier -- the fourth in five years for this Regina curling
dynasty.
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1976
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Jack MacDuff records Newfoundland's
only Brier win in Regina.
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1977
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Jim Ursel obliges the home fans in Montreal
with Quebec's
only Brier win.
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1980
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Labatt
Brewing takes over from MacDonald as the Brier's primary sponsor and
replaces the Brier Tankard with the Labatt Tankard.
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1993
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Round-robin
ends with a four-way tie for first place between Ontario¹s Russ Howard,
B.C.'s Rick Folk, Northern Ontario¹s Rick Lang and Manitoba¹s Vic Peters.
Howard finally wins th Brier after four
tie-breakers, a semi-final and a final.
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2001
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Nokia
takes over from Labatt as the primary sponsor, with the refurbished,
solid-silver Brier Tankard brought out of retirement to be presented to the
winner for the first time since 1979.
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2002
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Alberta's Randy Ferbey
becomes just the fourth man to win four Brier titles; the only man to do it
with two different teams.
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2003
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Alberta's Randy Ferbey
becomes the only man to win five Brier titles; his team becomes the first
to win three consecutive Brier titles. The team goes 13-0, setting a new
record.
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2004
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The Ferbey rink shatters the record for consecutive victories,
winning 23 in a row dating back to Draw 17 of the 2002 Brier, before
finally losing a game, 8-7 to Nova
Scotia's Mark Dacey.
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2005
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Randy Ferbey wins his sixth Brier title.
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2006
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Skip
Jean Michel Ménard, Third François Roberge, Second Eric Sylvain, Lead Maxime
Elmaleh and Alternate Jean Gagnon from the
Victoria, Ste-Foy and Etchemin Curling Clubs, St-Romuald
becomes just the second team from Quebec
to win the Brier.
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2007
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Glenn Howard
joins his brother Russ in winning his first Brier as a Skip.
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