OTTAWA, May 20, 2009... The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced the sites of the three remaining national championships for the 2009-2010 season.

The 2010 World Financial Group Seniors will take place in Ottawa, March 20-28 at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club. The winners of the 2010 Canadian Seniors will represent Canada at the 2011 World Seniors, at a site and date to be announced.

The Canadian Seniors were last held in Ontario in 2002 in St. Thomas. Ottawa has twice previously hosted the Seniors. It staged the inaugural Canadian senior women's championship in 1973 and the men's event in 1976, when the championships were conducted separately, prior to being combined, starting in 1985 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Manitoba and Ontario have each won 10 Canadian senior men's titles since the championship began in 1965 in Port Arthur, while Ontario has also won a leading 10 women's crowns since 1973. Ontario (Bruce Delaney of Ottawa) and Nova Scotia (Colleen Pinkney of Truro) won the 2009 Canadian Seniors in Summerside, Prince Edward Island and will now represent Canada at the 2010 World Seniors in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

The 2008 Canadian Senior champions, Eugene Hritzuk of Saskatchewan and Pat Sanders of British Columbia, recently won gold medals at the 2009 World Seniors in New Zealand.

Other major curling events in Canada next season are the pre-Trials (Road to the Roar) in Prince George, British Columbia, November 10-14 and the Tim Hortons Canadian Curling Trials (Roar of the Rings), December 6-13 in Edmonton, which will determine Canada's representatives for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, where the curling competition takes place from February 16-27, followed by the Paralympic Games, March 12-21, also in Vancouver at the Olympic Centre.

For further information:

Danny Lamoureux
Director, Championship Services & Curling Club Development
Canadian Curling Association
1-866-761-2875 (toll free cell)
1-613-834-2076 (from outside Canada)
skype: dlamoureux1959
danny@curling.ca

2010 Canadian Senior Men's and Women's Curling Championships
March 20-28, Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club
Ottawa, Ontario
Theo Mayer
General Manager
613-736-4082
tmayer@ottawahuntclub.org