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Linda MacDonald

(photo - Linda with her house in the background)

Inspired by her mother's example, Linda started curling in Marmora, Ontario, in the ’60’s. Born in Ontario, she has lived in Nova Scotia since ’71 and had curled in Halifax, Kentville and Lunenburg with the St. James Church Boys League of Mahone Bay before joining the Lunenburg Curling Club. Although experienced as a recreational curler, she took the curling course offered at the LCC in the Fall of ’04 to brush up on the new techniques. Her most memorable curling moment was when she achieved her first double takeout and then went off to church for the Ash Wednesday Penitential Service, having a hard time keeping a smile off of her face.

Linda has owned property on Heckman’s Island since 1979 and over the years has upgraded the original cottage to a substantial post and beam home. She has two grown children, both living in Nova Scotia. She studied part-time for 7 years to become an ordained minister of the Anglican Church in ’86. Now she volunteers as Chaplain at Harbour View Haven in her retirement years.

Linda stays very active. She is an avid Scottish dancer and travels whenever she feels the need for a new adventure. This year she cruised the Caribbean and in the past she spent 5 weeks crewing on the Picton Castle as it visited various tall ship ports. She belongs to a local book club and the most recent book she has read is "John Adams" by David McCullough. Linda maintains an evangelical feeling for curling and encourages the sport whenever she can. In spite of the biblical proverb, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” she doesn’t object to curling lead.

1 - 2007 Sophia Petrony Memorial Trophy winners
2 - Linda's mother (3rd from left) with winning
    Ontario curling team