author

James Bicket

An early Canadian writer on sport, he is best remembered for producing one of the country's first books on curling. His surviving work offers a vivid glimpse of how the game was organized and enjoyed in Toronto in the 1840s.

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The Canadian Curler's Manual Or, an account of curling, as practised in Canada: with remarks on the history of the game

The Canadian Curler's Manual Or, an account of curling, as practised in Canada: with remarks on the history of the game

by James Bicket

About the author

James Bicket is known for The Canadian Curler's Manual, published in 1840 for the Toronto Curling Club. The book explains the rules and customs of curling in Canada and is widely noted as Canada's first book devoted to the sport.

Because so little biographical information is readily confirmed, his public legacy rests mainly on that manual. Even so, the book gives him an important place in early Canadian sports writing and in the recorded history of curling.

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