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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier abstract "The 1979 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held from March 4 to 10 at the Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa.Manitoba's Barry Fry won his only Brier title of his career. He clinched the Brier title following the Friday night (March 9) draw. The rink which also included Bill Carey, Gordon Sparkes and Bryan Wood would go on to represent Canada at the 1979 Air Canada Silver Broom, the World Curling Championships.It Would be the last Brier under the sponsorship of Macdonald Tobacco. This marked an end of an era, as Macdonald Tobacco had sponsored the event since the first Brier in 1927. Following the final draw, the head of Macdonald Tobacco, David Macdonald Stewart declared "[f]or half a century, Macdonald Tobacoo has followed an idea ... a dream to ... bring together Canadians, from all parts of the country and all walks of life, in a national sporting event. Curling was the ideal sport. It's been a wonderful experience. We've now seen the final chapter in 50 years of Canadian history". To commemorate the end of the Macdonald era, every living Brier champion skip at the time were invited to attend the Brier, and had their picture taken together. The lone surviving curler from the 1927 Brier, Emmet Smith (Northern Ontario) was also invited. The group of skips gathered before the final draw of the event for a special ceremony.The event was also the last Brier without a playoff following the round robin. The final attendance of the event was 89,081 which was a Brier record at the time. 7000 people witnessed the final draw on March 10, despite the matches being meaningless to the outcome of the event.The event was marred with slow ice conditions and bad rocks, which were borrowed from a local curling club. The rocks were mismatched and pitted which "reduced shotmaking to a guessing game." Part way through the week, organizers asked for the teams to vote on changing the rocks. The teams that favoured hitting, including the leading Manitoba rink opposed changing the rocks, as the mismatched rocks made draw shots more difficult than hit shots.".
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink 1980_Labatt_Brier.
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Alan_Darragh.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Annandale_Curling_Club.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Barry_Fry_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Bill_Carey_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Fedosa.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Thompson_(curler).
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Don_Pennell_(curler).
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Doug_Morrison_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Edmonton.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Emmet_Smith.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Eric_Davey.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Fuji_Miki.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink George_Campbell_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Glen_Pierce.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Gordon_Sparkes.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Jeff_Thomas_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Jim_Ursel.
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink John_Scales_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Ken_McDonald_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Ken_Thomas_(curler).
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Macdonald_Tobacco.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Malcolm_Turner_(curler).
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Newfoundland_and_Labrador.
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Ottawa.
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Toby_McDonald.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Tom_Wilson_(curler).
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Vancouver.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Vancouver_Curling_Club.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Warren_Wallace.
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- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Winnipeg.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink World_Curling_Championships.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Yellowknife.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Yellowknife_Curling_Centre.
- 1979_Macdonald_Brier wikiPageWikiLink Yellowknife_Curling_Club.
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