John Jamieson (curler)

John Gardner Jamieson (born February 14, 1925 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; died November 10, 2001) was a Canadian-American curler from Lynden, Washington. He was the second on the Granite Curling Club team (from Seattle, Washington, United States) during the World Curling Championships known as the 1961 Scotch Cup, where they won the silver medal.^[1]

Jamieson grew up in Winnipeg and Victoria Beach, Manitoba. He served as a seaman with the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II. After exiting the Navy, he would work as an inspector with a phone company. In 1957, he moved to Everett, Washington to work for the West Coast Telephone Company. He then worked for Boeing before becoming the owner of the Riverside Tavern in Everett. After that, he becaome the owner of Wallace Poultry in Bellingham, Washington.

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