The championship has been contested annually since 1948, with the event cancelled only once, in 2021, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In 1953, the
Janet Perkin rink from Regina won the provincial title and the Western Canadian Ladies' Championship, the first organized competition for women that went beyond the province's borders, and which was hosted in Regina. Saskatoon's
Joyce McKee established an early run of dominance in the province, winning a record eight titles between 1954 and 1973, including five as skip. McKee won the first invitational national title in 1960 and the first official Canadian women's championship the following year, capturing the
1961 Diamond D Championship. She won another national title in 1969 before teaming up with
Vera Pezer for a then-record three consecutive provincial and national titles from 1971 to 1973, including the
1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship in Saskatoon. Pezer's three straight titles were part of a run of six straight for Team Saskatchewan. In 2019, the Pezer rink would be ranked fifth in a national ranking of the greatest women's curling teams. The top-ranked team was
Sandra Schmirler's Regina rink, which won three provincial, national, and world titles in the 1990s, along with a gold medal at the
1998 Winter Olympics.—and
Amber Holland. Sherry Anderson has won seven provincial titles, matching McKee's mark of five wins as a skip, with her first win coming in 1994 and her last in 2018. Although Anderson has not won a national Tournament of Hearts, her rink did capture a record five straight
Canadian senior championships between 2017 and 2022, and
world seniors titles in 2018, 2019, and 2023. The most recent provincial champion is
Nancy Martin, whose rink won its first title at the
2025 Viterra Prairie Pinnacle.
List of champions Teams in bold denote national championships. Western Canada champions (1953–1960) in italics. Notes == See also ==