Click on the photo to see it larger size Old-Time Bonspiel in Edinburgh I recently came across a photograph of a group of curlers posing in ...

The magazine Funny Folks that ran from 1874 until 1894 commenced a series of humorous pieces in February 1886, entitled The Widgerys at Bre...

Robin Copland has written about the Canadian curlers' visit to Scotland in 1909. His booklet, Curling in the Footsteps of History, is re...

CHAPTER FOUR– AN UNSCHEDULED GAME AT MYRESIDE by Robin Copland That there was a rink to play on at Myreside at all was due to a young ground...

CHAPTER EIGHT – THE MAMMOTH BANQUET DAY! by Robin Copland The 20th January was described in contemporary reports as “the red-letter day of t...

CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE TEST MATCHES AND THE STRATHCONA CUP by Robin Copland From the outset, it was understood that although friendly competit...

CHRONOLOGICAL TOUR ITINERARY January Friday 9 R.M.S Empress of Ireland departs Halifax en route to Liverpool. Saturday 16 Arrival at Live...

by Robin Copland When the tourists travelled to Scotland, they did so on the Empress of Ireland , a new trans-Atlantic steamer built in Fair...

When David McFarlane, president of Scottish Central Province of the RCCC, asked me during the recent Ramada Perth Masters whether Central Pr...

The open-ended handle is now so common that one sometimes wonders why there ever was a desire for a different design. But in some parts of S...

This from David B Smith: Charles Doyle, the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was an accomplished artist, member of a family of accomplished...

This feature appeared in the October 2008 Scottish Curler magazine. David B Smith tells the story: Late last year I got a phone call from a ...