Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 12:16:37 01/11/06
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On January 11, 2006 at 07:10:41, Christopher Conkie wrote: >Curling is a Scottish invention. > >Scottish immigrants introduced curling to Canada. It may have something to do >with Belgian Scots specifically. > >http://icing.org/game/history/historya.htm > [snip] >Christopher The Belgian (Flemish) Scots arrived in Scotland mostly during the reign of King James VI, in the late 1500s or later. Prior to that, there is evidence of sophisticated curling activity in Scotland : http://www.heronter.org/Library/GameoftheMonth/curling.html It is possible, however, that Flemish ice sports (such as "eisschiessen") stimulated Scotland's own native curling activity. Mark
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