Stick curling was essentially new and unheard of when Ernie Oliver started driving up and down Manitoba — and later across Canada — to introduce the sport to curlers about 25 years ago.

It is now played by thousands of people in clubs across Canada thanks to the efforts of people such as Oliver, a Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame inductee for his role as a builder. In stick curling, two-person teams deliver a rock from a standing position or from a wheelchair using a stick, hence the name.

“His thing was always that when people get older, they can’t get into the hack anymore,” his daughter Roberta Oliver said. “He did it so the older people who loved curling could still curl. Every year, he kept teaching more people and going out there, getting the sport as big as he could.”

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