Chatham Granite Club
Founded	1862
Sheets	5
Rock colours	Red and blue
OCA Ontario Curling Association The Ontario Curling Association is the governing body of curling in Southern Ontario. Northern Ontario is governed by the Northern Ontario Curling Association. The OCA sends a team to represent Team Ontario at all major Canadian Championships except the Scott Tournament of Hearts. The NOCF sends a...  Zone	16
Address	41 William Street North Chatham, Ontario Chatham, Ontario Chatham is the largest community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Formerly serving as the seat of Kent County, the governments of the former city of Chatham, the county of Kent, and its townships were merged into one entity known as the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in 1998.Located on...   N7M 5K8

The Chatham Granite Club is an historic curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 club in Chatham, Ontario

Chatham, Ontario

Chatham is the largest community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Formerly serving as the seat of Kent County, the governments of the former city of Chatham, the county of Kent, and its townships were merged into one entity known as the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in 1998.Located on...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It's located in Downtown Chatham on William Street North.

The Chatham Granite was founded in 1862 as the Chatham Curling Club. For the first 30 years, the club played on the Thames River

Thames River (Ontario)

The Thames River is located in southwestern Ontario, Canada.The Thames flows west through southwestern Ontario, through the cities of Woodstock, London and Chatham to Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair...

. In 1892, they settled at the clubs current location, and a new building was built in 1903. Artificial ice was installed in 1929 when the curling rink was remolded into a skating, hockey and curling arena. In 1939, the club was renovated into just a curling rink. It has five sheets of curling ice has lockers on the main level and has a lounge upstairs that has been newly refurbished.

The Chatham Granite Club has sent two teams to the Brier, in 1949 and 1953 when Peter Gilbert won the Provincial championships

TSC Stores Tankard

The Dominion Tankard is the Southern Ontario provincial championship for men's curling. The winner represents Team Ontario at the Tim Hortons Brier. Listed below are the list of Ontario's representatives at the Brier that year. Brier champions indicated in bold. From 1927 to 1931, the Toronto area...

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The club was the first winner of The Dominion Curling Club Championships

The Dominion Curling Club Championships

The Dominion Curling Club Championship is an annual curling tournament held in Canada. The tournament features the top "club level" curlers from every province and territory in Canada, plus Northern Ontario....

 (men's division) in 2009.

Provincial championships

• 2009 - Robert Stafford, Ben Curtis, Mark Patterson, Ed DeSchutter: Provincial and national curling club
  The Dominion Curling Club Championships
  The Dominion Curling Club Championship is an annual curling tournament held in Canada. The tournament features the top "club level" curlers from every province and territory in Canada, plus Northern Ontario....
  
  champions
• 1988 - Brian DeRooy, Bev Dekoning, Peter Dekoning, Eileen DeRooy: Mixed
• 1987 - Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnall, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
• 1986 - Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnall, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
• 1985 - Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnall, Betty Standish, Olga Hladki: Women's Masters
• 1982 - Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnall, Doris Cowan, Pat Jones: Women's Seniors
• 1975 - Shirley Pilson, Mary Bagnall, Dot DeKoning, Ruth Roberston: Women's Seniors
• 1953 - Peter Gilbert, Gordon Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, Jim Harrington: Men's
• 1949 - Peter Gilbert, Gordon Gilbert, Don Painter, John DeKoning: Men's