Curling is… how can we say this?
Curling seems like it’s a non-sport to some.
Maybe it’s just us, but we’re not seeing the pubs in town fill up when a gold medal’s on the line at the Olympics. The shouting over people furiously brushing away at ice over thrown stones as they slide across ice, even if it’s considered to be a national pastime, doesn’t seem to be taken as seriously as it should be.
When we learn, however, about places like the Royal Montreal Curling Club?
We do a double-take.

Back to the ice age
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Curling in Canada, Montreal Curling Club, Montreal, QC, 1905, copied about 1906
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