Ted Anderson Bonspiel

Welcome to the Ted Anderson Memorial Bonspiel

October 24,25,26, 2025

Draw times: Early draws 8:00 am and 1:00 pm; Late draws 10:15 am and 3:15 pm. Entry fee is TBA; payable prior to the first game. Curlers must be 60+ on 24 Oct 2025, and registered members (male or female) with the PCMCA. Closed bonspiel - all curlers on a team are members of the same curling club.

Note: one curler per team may be 55-59 and play any position. Ice will be scraped at noon for better play.

Games: Games will consist of a maximum of 8 ends. A clock on every sheet is set for 1 hour and 38 minutes. Thirds must start the clock when the first rock is delivered. When the alarm sounds, finish the end you are in and play one more. End is considered completed when the last rock comes to a stop. Keep the game moving:

1) When clearing the rocks after an end, just push them into each corner – sorting wastes time – curlers will find their rock.

2) As soon as the opposition rock crosses the near Hog line, and your

turn is next to deliver a rock, - DON’T WATCH THE ROCK -, get to your rock, clean it, and be in the hack ready to throw. This applies to 3rds as well.

3) SKIPs have your shot options thought out in advance then

make the decision WTHOUT DELAY – it’s either guard, draw or a hit, …delay changes nothing.

--->A full 8 ends should only take 1hour and 50 minutes to play; the last 10 minutes is for the iceman.

Ted Anderson

Born Charles Theodore Anderson on April 8, 1932 in Flemming, Saskatchewan to Charles and Elsie Anderson, he was one of four children. Ted played anything with a ball: baseball, golf, pickleball, cricket –and was also a boxer. He was a cub leader, a cricket coach, president of the Dunbar Community Centre, and a church leader. He volunteered for countless organizations including the Canadian Cancer Agency as a driver.

Ted started curling in Saskatchewan in 1953 when he was an accountant at a hospital and belonged to their boxing team. Soon after arriving in B.C., Ted began curling at Marpole Curling Club and then at the Peach Arch Curling Club.

At 31 years of age Ted, traffic manager for Cominco at the time, was the youngest President of the Vancouver Transportation Club. Some years later he started their annual bonspiel, one that continues to this day with a trophy named in his memory.

Ted was very involved in teaching school children to curl at Peace Arch. He had a zest for life like no other and was always ready to help anyone. He taught his daughter that no one was better than anyone else, and if you worked hard at it you could win in games and in life.

Ted died after collapsing on the ice in a Masters’ Bonspiel at Cloverdale in 2008. Since that time, the Peace Arch Masters’ Bonspiel has been named in his memory.