Mississauga to host 2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Scotties Tournament of Hearts logo (Wikimedia Commons)

According to Gregory Strong of The Canadian Press on Tuesday, Mississauga, Ontario will host the 2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The Canadian National Women’s Curling Championship will take place at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre Sportsplex from January 23 to February 1. It is earlier than normal so the tournament does not conflict with the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo. 

The most significant curling event Mississauga has hosted in the past was the 2009 World Cup of Curling which was part of the World Curling Tour. The tournament was won by Ontario’s Glenn Howard.

This will be the second straight year the Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be in Ontario. Thunder Bay is hosting the event in 2025 with the tournament taking place at Fort William Gardens from February 14 to 23.

Meanwhile, the field has been set for the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario will represent Team Canada as the defending champion. The three wildcard teams will be skipped by Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Kaitlyn Lawes of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Selena Sturmay of Edmonton, Alberta. The provincial and territories champions were skipped by Kayla Skrlik of Calgary (representing Alberta), Corryn Brown of Kamloops (representing British Columbia), Kate Cameron of Grande Pointe (representing Manitoba), Melissa Adams of Grand Falls (representing New Brunswick), Brooke Godsland of St. John’s (representing Newfoundland and Labrador), Krista McCarville of Thunder Bay (representing Northern Ontario), Christina Black of Halifax (representing Nova Scotia), Danielle Inglis of Whitby (representing Ontario), Jane DiCarlo of Charlottetown (representing Prince Edward Island), Laurie St-Georges of Laval (representing Quebec), Nancy Martin of Rosetown (representing Saskatchewan), Kerry Galusha of Yellowknife (representing Northwest Territories), Julia Weagle of Iqaluit (representing Nunavut), and Bayly Scoffin of Whitehorse (representing Yukon). Lawes was the third in women’s curling when Canada won the gold medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and the female curler in mixed doubles when Canada won the gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

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