Last weekend, Feb 7-9 2025, the New Caledonian Curling Club hosted this year’s Ship Hector Bonspiel. The 51st edition of this popular curling tournament was held in Pictou county at our 4 area curling clubs; the Bluenose (New Glasgow), the Stellar (Stellarton), Westville and the New Caledonian (Pictou). There were 56 teams from around Atlantic Canada and Saint Pierre and Miquelon who took part over the weekend in 136 games culminating in various events & trophy finals as well as a bonspiel championship game Sunday afternoon, held across all four clubs.
The Pictou Curling Centre held the finals for the 2025 Tweed event, 2025 New Caledonian Trophy and the 2025 Ship Hector Championship. In turn, the winners were:

2025 Tweed Event winners – Team Campbell (Mayflower CC); Liam Campbell (skip), Violet Campbell (mate), Allen Campbell (second), Ed MacKenzie (lead)

2025 New Caledonian Trophy winners – Team Kent (Lakeshore CC); Samantha Kent (skip), Jolena Rafuse (mate), Heidi MacDonald (second), Kourtney Rodgers (lead)

2025 Ship Hector Bonspiel Champions – Team Hurley (Halifax CC); Alex Hurley (skip), Joshua Henderson (mate), Mark Gordon (second), Ben Parker (lead), Stephen Allen (spare)