In 1970, Rod Hunter, Jim Pettapiece and Bryan Wood sought another curler to replace Hunter’s brother John who had left their team the previous year. Hunter contacted Don Duguid, a fellow Granite Curling Club member and former teammate, and asked him to be the new skip of the team. Duguid had retired from competitive curling in 1969 after a lengthy career that included victories in the 1957 Manitoba Consols and the Canadian Brier in 1965, but Hunter’s persuasiveness brought Duguid out of retirement and established the most successful combination to date in world curling history.

With little preparation, the team in 1970 won the Grand Aggregate Championship, the Henry Birks Trophy, the CBC Curling Series, and the Crystal Trophy that was contested in Zurich, Switzerland. Locally, the team won the club championship of the Granite Curling Club, the Winnipeg City Playdowns, the Manitoba Consols, and the Canadian Brier; all necessary to have them represent Canada at the Silver Broom World Championships in Utica, New York. The strong-shooting team defeated Scotland in the final and posted an eight game undefeated performance in international play.

In 1971, the team enjoyed similar success with the exception of their absence at the CBC Series and the Crystal Trophy competitions. As the Canadian representatives at the 1971 Silver Broom in Mégève, France, they defeated Scotland in the final for the second time and boasted a record of nine wins and no losses during the championships. Their record of seventeen straight victories in two Silver Broom competitions remains intact. In this modern era that has developed many outstanding curlers, especially in our province, the team’s consecutive Manitoba and Canadian titles were considered remarkable accomplishments as well. In 1974, the Don Duguid rink was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame.