A social history of curling that explains why 'the roaring game' has become a roaring success both in Canada and around the world. Touching on the history, highlights, humour, and even horrors of curling, this work focuses on the Canadian innovations that helped popularise the sport worldwide and hoist it onto the silver screen and Olympic gold.

This work is an appealing social history of curling that explains why 'the roaring game' has become a roaring success both here in Canada and around the world. Curling thrives as the only sport where men and women can compete equally in the same forum and by the same rules, where rank amateurs can play competitively against the sport's elites, where anyone from nine to ninety can get involved. Curling blends sport, tradition, lifestyle, health, and camaraderie around the single most important rule of the game, marked by the three Cs: Curling Cheats Confess. In that regard, curling isn't just a way of life - it's a pretty good foundation for living life. Touching on the history, highlights, humour, and even horrors of curling, Doug Clark focuses on the Canadian innovations that helped popularise the sport worldwide and hoist it onto the silver screen and Olympic gold.