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Mathew Harris

Canadian male curler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ68180803 ↗
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Mathew "Mat" Harris is a Canadian curler.

He is a 2004 World Men's bronze medallist and a 2004 Nokia Brier champion as a member of Mark Dacey team.

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Personal life

His brother Rob is a curler too, and played lead on the Mark Dacey Brier champion team (Mathew was many times the alternate on this team). Harris works as the Regional Managing Partner of Deloitte's Atlantic region. In 2015, he chaired the host committee at the 2015 World Men's Curling Championship.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mathew Harris” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.