Royal Montreal Curling Club

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|location = 1850 De Maisonneuve Boulevard West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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|established = January 27, 1807

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The Royal Montreal Curling Club (French: Club de Curling Royal Montréal) is the oldest curling club in North America, established on January 27, 1807 by a group of Scottish Canadian immigrants in Montreal.{{cite book|last=Redmond|first=Gerald|title=The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth-Century Canada|date=March 1982|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3069-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KCl1l35K-IcC&dq=Royal+Montreal+Curling+Club&pg=PA108|page=108}}

The group met at the Gillis Tavern to lay down the rules of the organization. Thirty years later, the group would again make Canadian sports history, by building Canada's first indoor ice rink.{{cite book|last=Zawadzki|first=Edward|title=The Ultimate Canadian Sports Trivia Book|year=2001|publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=978-0-88882-237-6|url=https://archive.org/details/ultimatecanadian0000zawa|url-access=registration|quote=Royal Montreal Curling Club.|page=[https://archive.org/details/ultimatecanadian0000zawa/page/163 163]}}

In addition to its status as the oldest curling club on the continent, the Royal Montreal Curling Club is also the oldest active sports club in North America.{{cite web|url=http://www.royalmontrealcurling.ca/|title=The Royal Montreal Curling Club|accessdate=29 September 2011}}

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