page_title: Wally Ursuliak
section_title: Overviews
hierarchical_section_title: Wally Ursuliak / Overviews
caption_attribution_description: Kunihiko Tanabe, Consul-General in Calgary, conducted the investiture ceremony for Wally Ursuliak, curler, at the Official Residence of the Consul-General of Japan in Calgary on June 15, 2017. Ursuliak was given the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays from Tanabe.
context_page_description: Wally Ursuliak is a Canadian curler from Morinville, Alberta.
context_section_description: He was the lead on the Alberta Avenue CC curling team (from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) during the World Curling Championships known as the 1961 Scotch Cup. He was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 2006.
  During the 1960s and 1970s, he along with Ray Turnbull and Don Duguid operated a series of curling clinics in Europe to try to popularize the game. In 1980, he is also credited to introducing the game to the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
caption: Ursuliak was given the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays from Kunihiko Tanabe, Consul-General of Japan in Calgary, on 15 June 2017.
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