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The Granite Club
The Granite Club is an invitation-only athletic country club in Toronto. Founded in 1875, it has a long history of sports competition. It is located on Bayview Avenue north of downtown Toronto.
==History==
The Granite Club was founded in 1875 on St. Mary's Street in downtown Toronto. It was initially a curling club. It provided a curling rink and a skating rink as facilities. After only five years on St. Mary Street, expansion was needed in order to improve existing facilities and to accommodate the growing Membership.In 1880, the club moved to 471 Church Street, where it added lawn bowling and tennis. By 1885, the Membership had reached 447 Members. Later in the 1880s, the club's members formed and sponsored an ice hockey, considered the first or one of the first organized ice hockey teams in Toronto. The Toronto Granites ice hockey club would last into the 1900s and produce Canadian amateur champion and Olympic champion teams.
In the 1920s, the club organized competitive figure skating at the club. Over time, singles champions such as Kurt Browning, Patrick Chan and Barbara Ann Scott, have trained at the club. The pairs champions of Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini also trained at the club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Granite Club: Athletics )〕
In 1925, a piece of land on St. Clair Avenue West, near Yonge Street, was purchased to accommodate a still-growing Membership, the changing face of recreational activities and conversion from a gentlemen’s to a family club. The St. Clair location housed seven badminton courts, several five-pin bowling lanes, a swimming pool and two squash courts in addition to curling, skating, lawn bowling and tennis. The fourth Club home was opened in 1972 on a 22-acre site on Bayview Avenue, bordering on the Don Valley. Alterations and additions to the new building have continued and the acquisition of adjacent properties to the north have both expanded the Club’s develop-able table land and established the ability to add floor space to the Clubhouse. In 1994, five new tennis courts were added to the property to the north with attractively designed landscaping surrounding the area. In 2006, the Club added one tennis court and introduced a state-of-the-art Aquatics Complex with a retractable roof. In 2012, the Club broke ground on its most significant capital project since moving to Bayview. The Shiftingravity expansion will feature expanded Fitness offerings, a new children’s area and Activity Centre, a consolidated pro shop and 200 additional parking spaces—additions in order to meet the needs of the Club’s approximately 11,000 Members and ever-changing physical and cultural environment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Granite Club: History )〕
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