Lyall Dagg
{{Short description|Canadian curler (1929–1975)}}
{{Infobox curler
| name =Lyall Dagg
| birth_date ={{Birth date|1929|7|27}}
| birth_place =Tisdale, Saskatchewan
| death_date={{Death date and age|1975|5|14|1929|7|27}}
| death_place=Vancouver, British ColumbiaVancouver Province, 15 May 1975, pg 23, "Lyall Dagg, curling ace, dead at 45"
| Brier appearances = 2 ({{Brier|1964}}, {{Brier|1970}})
| World Championship appearances =
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry | {{flag|Canada|1957}} }}
{{MedalSport | Men's Curling}}
{{MedalCompetition|World championships}}
{{MedalGold| 1964 Calgary | Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|Macdonald Brier}}
{{MedalCountry | {{BC}} }}
{{MedalGold| 1964 Charlottetown |}}
{{MedalBronze| 1970 Winnipeg |}}
}}
Lyall Austin Dagg (July 27, 1929 – May 14, 1975) was a Canadian curler and World Champion. He is the father of Elaine Dagg-Jackson, who also became a curler.
He won a gold medal at the 1964 World Curling Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://knowbc.com/limited/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/D/Dagg-Lyall |title=Dagg, Lyall -- KnowBC - the leading source of BC information |access-date=2014-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224110810/http://knowbc.com/limited/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/D/Dagg-Lyall |archive-date=2016-02-24 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/cur/mw.html |title=Curling – Men: World Championships |publisher=sports123|accessdate=3 April 2010}} Outside of curling, he was employed as an account executive.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19640307&id=VcgyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8-wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3357,1134772|title = Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search}}
Dagg died at the age of 45 from a rare blood disorder.{{Cite web|url=http://www.curling.ca/hof/people/dagg-lyall/|title = Dagg, Lyall – CCA Hall of Fame | ACC Temple de la Renommée Virtuelle}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gvshof.ca/inductees-2/all-inductees/28-curling/227-elaine-dagg-jackson.html|title=Elaine Dagg-Jackson (2015)}} He was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 2000.
Personal life
Dagg was of Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch descent.{{Cite web|url=https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=peanut97&id=P5097|title = Individual Page}} Dagg was a former printer, journalist, business editor and public relations director.
Dagg moved to BC in 1943. He was first employed as a printer, and became a write-reporter and business editor for the Vancouver News-Herald. In 1955 he joined the public relations department for Crown Zellerbach Canada, later becoming director of public relations, and then manager of marketing services in Richmond, British Columbia and then in Kelowna in 1973. Dagg was also involved in the BC Centennial Committee, the Festival of Forestry, the Vancouver Board of Trade, the BC Heart Foundation and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce.
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Category:World curling champions
Category:Canadian people of Irish descent
Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent
Category:Canadian people of English descent
Category:Canadian people of Dutch descent
Category:Canadian male curlers
Category:Journalists from British Columbia
Category:Canadian public relations people
Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen
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