1940 Macdonald Brier

1940 Macdonald Brier
1940 Macdonald Brier
Host city	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Arena	Winnipeg Amphitheatre
Dates	March 4–7
Winner	Manitoba
Curling club	Granite CC, Winnipeg
Skip	Howard Wood Sr.
Third	Ernest Pollard
Second	Howard Wood Jr.
Lead	Roy Enman
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The 1940 Macdonald Brier, the Canadian men's national curling championship, was held from March 4 to 7, 1940 at the Winnipeg Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This was the first Brier to be held outside The Granite Club in Toronto as the Brier became more of a national event as it would travel around the country. Winnipeg was chosen to host the event after an invitation from the Manitoba Curling Association, and due to Manitoba's dominance at the Brier up to that point.^[1]^[2]

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Team Manitoba, who was skipped by Howard "Pappy" Wood, captured the Brier Tankard in their hometown by finishing undefeated in round robin play with a 9-0 record.^[3] Wood had only assembled the team prior to deadline for entries for that year's MCA Bonspiel, which they ended up winning.^[4]

The final draw attracted 5,000 fans, the largest attendance for a curling match up to that point.^[5]

This was Manitoba's ninth Brier championship overall and the second time that Wood's rink won the Brier with their first coming in 1930 in a tiebreaker. This was also the fourth time that a Brier champion finished unbeaten.

In addition to being the first Brier outside Toronto, the Winnipeg Brier was the first to ban curlers from bringing their own stones to compete with. Stones also had coloured tops for the first time, to aid spectators in the arena to determine which team's rocks were which.^[6] Also for the first time in Brier history, every team at the Brier had qualified via a provincial championship. At the time, every provincial championship except for New Brunswick was sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco's British Consols product. The New Brunswick championship was sponsored by Ganong Bros.^[7]

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Alberta	British Columbia	Manitoba	New Brunswick	Northern Ontario
Royal CC, Edmonton Skip: Cliff Manahan Third: Wesley Robinson Second: Ross Manahan Lead: Robert Manahan	Vancouver CC, Vancouver Skip: William Finlay Third: Frederick Tinling Second: Norman Williams Lead: William LeSage	Granite CC, Winnipeg Skip: Howard Wood Sr. Third: Ernest Pollard Second: Howard Wood Jr. Lead: Roy Enman	Bathurst CC, Bathurst Skip: Nicholas Thibodeau Third: Harper Kent Second: Allen Doucet Lead: Leo Thibodeau	Kirkland Lake CC, Kirkland Lake Skip: James Davis Third: Albert Sackrider Second: Harry McNabb Lead: James MacDonald
Nova Scotia	Ontario	Prince Edward Island	Quebec	Saskatchewan
Bridgewater CC, Bridgewater Skip: Stanley Rafuse Third: Irving Hebb Second: Warner Bickle Lead: Frank Cook	Kitchener Granite CC, Kitchener Skip: Bert Hall Third: Perry Hall Second: Ernie Parkes Lead: Campbell Seagram	Charlottetown CC, Charlottetown Skip: Rankine McLaine Third: Gordon Hughes Second: Reginald Bell Lead: John Fraser	Victoria CC, Quebec City Skip: Archibald Bell Third: James Elliott Second: Hugh Weyman Lead: George Warner	Kinley CC, Kinley Skip: William Dunbar Third: James McMahon Second: James Beckett Lead: Ronald Eaton

Province	Skip	W	L	PF	PA
Manitoba	Howard Wood Sr.	9	0	119	63
Saskatchewan	William Dunbar	8	1	108	59
New Brunswick	Nicholas Thibodeau	6	3	103	91
Alberta	Cliff Manahan	6	3	105	77
Ontario	Bert Hall	4	5	82	93
British Columbia	William Finlay	4	5	96	78
Northern Ontario	James Davis	4	5	88	91
Quebec	Archibald Bell	2	7	79	124
Prince Edward Island	Rankine McLaine	1	8	67	116
Nova Scotia	Stanley Rafuse	1	8	63	119

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
Alberta (Manahan)	4	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	11
New Brunswick (Thibodeau)	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	1	13

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
Manitoba (Wood)	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	8
Saskatchewan (Dunbar)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
British Columbia (Finlay)	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	11
Ontario (Hall)	0	0	0	3	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	2	12

1940 Macdonald Brier

Teams

Round-robin standings

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

References

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Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
Quebec (Bell)	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	7
Nova Scotia (Rafuse)	2	0	1	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	11

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
Quebec (Bell)	2	0	3	0	3	0	5	0	0	1	0	1	15
Ontario (Hall)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	9

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
Quebec (Bell)	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	8
Northern Ontario (Davis)	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	6	0	1	2	1	16

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
British Columbia (Finlay)	4	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	4	3	3	0	19
Quebec (Bell)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	5