Skip Flora Martin s Victoria Curling Club rinks dominated Canadian senior women s curling in the 1970s and early 1980s. Flora's rinks were stellar during that golden period winning back-to-back national titles in 1974 at Halifax and 1975 at Swift Current, then again in 1979 at Vernon and 1980 at Fredericton. Her rinks included 1974 and 1975 national champion teammates Edna Messum, Doreen Baker, Betty Stubbs and the 1979 and 1980 national championship team of Martin, Messum, Elsie Humphrey and Verle McKeown. Flora attributes their rinks remarkable national level success to the amount of work she and her teammates were willing to do. They loved playing the game and it showed. The Martin rinks played in all the bonspiels and shorties they could find and also managed to curl three times a week at their home Victoria Curling Club. All that effort paid off handsomely with five BC titles, two BC runner-up finishes in open women's play and four national titles.

To name Tom McKeachie an all-rounder would be a huge understatement. Tom almost did it all in his lengthy and stellar career from the 1940's to the 1980's. Tom was a well-respected rugby, football, basketball and lacrosse player in the 1940's on fields and in gyms all over Victoria and British Columbia. His powerful kicking ability made him a valuable rugby fullback with the James Bay Athletic Association and the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide. He turned to cricket in the 1950's and exchanged his many sporting jerseys for a whistle. He also officiated in basketball and lacrosse. It was in his final sport that Tom McKeachie turned his hand and mind to and left his greatest legacy. From the 1960's to 1985, Tom was a keen and important lawn bowler, administrator and builder on the city, provincial and national scene. His pinnacle as a player came in 1973 when he won the Walt Disney Masters in Hollywood, California. Tom was president of the Victoria Lawn Bowling Club, the B.C. Lawn Bowling Association and vice-president of the Canadian Lawn Bowling Council.