Roy Blair Committee

Shannon Fournier, Member Services Director
Hilary Fortin, At-Large Director

Fun Stuff

Do you have any good photos from past events?
Please send them to the Roy Blair Committee or our Club Manager :)

Historic Information

Curl with a distinguished curler at skip and enjoy the chance of participating in a Team Auction in mid-April.

In the Roy Blair, participants declare what position they would like to play.

Then a draft night is held where players are called up by positions (leads go first) and choose which skip they wish to play for.

A next two days after the draft night each team plays in a number of truncated games in a "points" bonspiel format. The winning rink is the one that accumulates the most points after the Blair is done.

Roy Blair represented the spirit of the Ottawa in that he was a great curler but also wanted everyone, no matter what their skill level, to participate.

His life ended early in a tragic drowning accident in 1977. 

We would like to acknowledge that starting in 2025 we will not be using the terminology of 'Calcutta' for the traditional auction that has been used during this bonspiel's history. The Calcutta term has origins from slave trading by Europeans in Calcutta, India. We would like to apologize for any negative feelings caused by this reference during this bonspiel.