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Quebec City 400th Anniversary Regional: This special ex-quota Regional took place April 10-13. The tournament 
achieved its promises. In addition to great bridge and hospitality, there were special events to honour the birthday 
of this special historic city. Congratulations to the organizers and please watch for this terrific city’s next 
regional in May 2009.

Other District 1 Regionals: We hope that you will attend our upcoming 2008 Regionals:

CanAm (Montreal, QC): Aug 11-17
National Capital (Ottawa, ON): Oct 8-13
For more information go to the “District 1 Tournaments” link

Grand National Teams: The District 1 Final were held at the Kingston site of the Split Regional on May 18th and 19th. 
Please see the results at the “District 1 Tournaments” link to your left.

Bridge Week 2008 in Montreal: District 1 is proud to have been the site of the Canadian Bridge Federation’s Bridge 
Championships. Congratulations and thanks to Jean Castonguay, Roger Dunn and their Committee for a well run event. 
Three events, Canadian National Teams Championships (CNTC), Canadian Women’s Team Championships (CWTC), and 
Canadian Seniors Team Championships (CSTC) crowned national champions who will represent Canada in the World Mind Games 
in China in the Fall. 

District 1 winners were:
CNTC: Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Marc-Andre Fourcaudot, Kamel Fergami, and Vincent Demuy along with Robert Lebi and Dan Jacob.

CWTC: Pamela Nisbet, Martine Lacroix and Pascale Gaudreault along with Karen Cumpstone, Kismut Fung and Susan Culham.

CSTC: Steve Brown, Bill Bowman, John Bowman, Ed Zaluski and Jurek Czyzowicz.

Congratulations to all, and we’re sure you will represent Canada well in China.

In addition, CNTC B, Canadian Open Pairs Championships and Canadian IMP Pairs Championships were held. 
For more information about these events, which were held in Montreal May 24-30, please go to www.cbf.ca .

ACBL President to Visit District 1: We are very pleased that ACBL President, Dan Morse will be attending the CanAm 
in Montreal in August. We look forward to welcoming the head of our organization and meeting this former World Champion 
at the table.

District 1 Players Achievements at 2007 World Championships in Shanghai.   Congratulations to:

Sylvia Caley, Julie Fajgelzon, Pamela Nisbet, Isabelle Smith, Francine Cimon who with Linda Lee (Toronto-who filled 
in at the last minute) and Ray Lee (NPC) finished 7th in the Round Robin and lost to Germany in the quarter finals 
of the Venice Cup. 

Joe Silver, Boris Baran, Fred Hoffer and Don Piafsky who, along with Arno Hobart, John Carruthers and Daniel Korbel (NPC), 
all of Toronto, won the Round Robin and lost a close Quarter Final match to Brazil in the Senior Bowl.

Waldemir Frukacz, John Zaluski, Jeff Smith, Nick L’Ecuyer, Kamel Fergami, along with Piotr Klimowicz(Edmonton) and 
Nader Hanna (NPC) of Toronto represented Canada well in the Bermuda Bowl.

Congratulations to all the above for representing Canada and District 1 so well!

2008 District 1 Goodwill and Charity Committee Appointments:
District 1 Director, George Retek is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathie Macnab (Halifax) and Fred Hoffer (Montreal) to the ACBL Charity Committee, and Pierre Hamelin (Quebec City) to the ACBL Goodwill Committee. 
These honourary appointments recognize the appointments great contribution to bridge in our District. Congratulations!   For more information about these committees, please see the links to the left. 

District 1 Board Annual Meeting: District 1 President, Leo Weniger, invites Unit Representatives and delegates to the meeting to be held at the CanAm Regional in Montreal on Saturday, August 16th following the afternoon session. If any District 1 member has an item for the Board Meeting Agenda please contact Leo Weniger at leowen@primus.ca using subject heading “District Meeting”. Minutes of past meeting can be found in the “Governance” link.

North American Pairs (NAP): Please make plans this summer to play in the club qualifying rounds of this prestigious event. Conditions of contest are listed in the “District Events” link. Details of the Split District 1 Final will be listed here after the District Annual Board Meeting in August.

Changes to CBF’S Bridge Week: 
At its board meeting in May the CBF made the following changes to Bridge Week starting in 2009:

a) Name changed from Canada Bridge Week to Canadian Bridge Championships ( CBC )

b) Eliminated Zone Finals in the CNTC-A, CNTC-B, CWTC, but retained club qualification requirement in first two events.

c) Any team may participate in the CBC provided they submitted their team entry and non-refundable round robin entry fee (CNTC-A $920; CNTC-B $540; CWTC $740) to Jan Anderson by March 15, 2009. Team roster changes will be allowed until May 1, 2009.