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Photograph | Donald Smith, later Lord Strathcona, Montreal, QC, 1871 | I-66959

Sir Donald Alexander Smith

1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914)

 

Strathcona Cup

January 10 to February 3, 2018

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Some Photo Highlights of the tour
 
Photos are contributed by the North and South Photographers &  Assistant Photographers, as well as individual participants.
 

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January 28
Dumfries dinner
 
Dinner
 
Muirhead

The team with the bye this morning went in for some extra consultation with a few experts - Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan and Vicki Adams.
pins

Building bridges...
 

January 26
STAndrews
Seventeen (plus the photographer) from the North Tour, on the Swilcan Bridge at St Andrews

January 27
Stranraer

Carousing in Stranraer

January 26
John Rudd

John Rudd
Derek

Derek White

January 25
Curl
Fife1
Fife2
Fife3
Wallace Bruce
 

 

 

 

 

January 21
         
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6 5 4 8  

The North is Curling in Aberdeen

  

 

   

January 19

whisky

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burns

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tasting1

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tasting2

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The North Tour visits the Carnegie Distillery

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 17
City Hall

The South Tour visits Glasgow City Hall
 

January 15
North2

North 2 has a comfortable lead
 
stack

A proper Canadian stack
 

January 14
Monument

In Glasgow, the North Tour takes in the Terracotta Doulton Fountain (1888)
Giles

Don Giles(L) & Dale Gregory(R) model our uniforms in Coquitlam, B.C.
Trudeau

Prime Minister Trudeau's letter wishing us good luck!
Trudeau

Hugh thanks Bill Paterson for the letter from Prime Minister Trudeau. — with Bill Paterson.

January 13
Rob Toby

NORTH TEAM 5

SOUTH TEAM 1
Krev Litch

NORTH TEAM 1

SOUTH TEAM 5
Rudd salmon

NORTH TEAM 4

SOUTH TEAM 2
Jenkins Jeremy

SOUTH TEAM 4

SOUTH TEAM 3
w Hay

NORTH TEAM 2

NORTH TEAM 3
 

January 11
Cup

The object of our desire, at Lanarkshire Ice Rink

January 10
group

The 2018 tourists