Major honours
Curling's first international dynasty, and the technical template every team since has studied. Skipped by Ernie Richardson, with brother Garnet at third and cousins Arnold and Wes at second and lead, this family team from Regina won the Brier as the youngest champions at the time in 1959, then travelled to Scotland the same year and swept a new international event, the Scotch Cup, beating Willie Young's Scotland, from Falkirk, five matches to none. That event is the direct forerunner of the world championship, and the Richardsons won it again in 1960, 1962 and 1963, taking four of the first six world titles; Mel Perry replaced Wes for the 1963 campaign. Their historical weight lies more in method than results: a sliding delivery, using the takeout as a first-choice shot rather than a last resort, and a level of consistency Europe had not yet seen. Ernie Richardson was awarded the Order of Canada in 1978.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
The opponent was less a specific team than Scotland as a whole. The Scotch Cup format sent the Canadian champion to face the Scottish champion on the road, and when the Richardsons swept all four editions they entered, the sport's centre of gravity shifted decisively from its birthplace to Canada. There are no Olympic medals simply because curling was not yet an Olympic sport.