Dedicated to Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Minto. 



Curling in Canada 



AND THE 



United States. 



By the Rev. JOHN KERR, 



M.A., F.R.S.E., F.S. A.Scot., Minister of Dirleton. 



Ordinary Edition, Extra Crown 8vo, 500 pp., with about 400 

 Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d. net (to be raised on publication 

 to 10s. net). 



Edition de Luxe, Demy 8vo, on Art Paper. Impression limited 

 to 250 copies, signed and numbered. Price £1 net (to be 

 raised on publication to £1. 5s. net). 



This volume contains a complete account of the Tour of the 

 Scottish Team of Curlers sent by the Royal Caledonian Curling 

 Club to visit Canada and the United States in the winter 1902, and 

 of the most enthusiastic reception everywhere met with by the 

 team. The numerous illustrations in the volume include portraits 

 of His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Minto, 

 and Her Excellency Lady Minto, and portraits, either separately 

 or in groups, of the majority of curlers who were met on the tour, 

 with illustrations of most of the covered rinks on which play took 

 place, important buildings, scener}', etc. Alongside the account 

 of the tour there is given a succinct statement as to the rise and 

 progress of the royal and ancient game of curling at each important 

 centre visited by the Scottish team, with reminiscences of famous 

 players in the various districts. 



A special chapter is devoted to the impressions which the various 

 members of the Scottish team formed of Canada and its people, on 

 their memorable and historic tour, while for the special benefit of 

 Transatlantic curlers there is included in the volume an official 

 description of the Curlers' Court and the mysteries of initiation so 

 far as it is allowable to reveal the same. 



