About the Club
The Glooscap Curling Club is located in Kentville, Nova Scotia, CANADA
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Lounge overlooking the ice |
The Club has an average membership of about 220, which includes roughly 50 junior curlers (under age 20.) and about 90 senior curlers (retired / over age 50). There are over 100 other school children that come in with teachers and seniors throughout the season. We always welcome new members.
Our club has four sheets of ice. A downstairs lounge and a hall / dining area upstairs both have a wall of windows facing the ice. A bar faces the lounge and a large kitchen is adjacent to the dining area. A card room is used most mornings, and male and female lockers are available. Curling brooms, shoes and clothing are put up for sale with profits going to the junior program. The name "Glooscap" is taken from the legendary figure "Glooskap". (or Gluskap") According to legend Glooscap was a mighty figure in the days of the Micmacs and Maliseets, clans of the early Algonquin people, who ruled over the Bay of Fundy and Minas Basin from his home on Blomidon - that mighty, out-thrusting buttress of vivid rock which is the easterlyextremity of the North Mountain. |
Banquet Room overlooking the ice