2024 Ontario Tankard

The 2024 Ontario Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 24 to 28 at FlightExec Centre in Dorchester, Ontario. The winning Scott Howard rink represented Ontario at the 2024 Montana's Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship in Regina, Saskatchewan. The event was held in conjunction with the 2024 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship. Both events are held together in non-Winter Olympic years.

The Municipality of Thames Centre provided $10,000 of seed money to host the event, which is expected to attract 18,000 too 20,000 visitors.

Qualification process
Twelve teams qualified for the 2024 Ontario Tankard. The top four southern Ontario teams on the Canada Team Ranking System as of December 18, 2023 qualified, as well as the next four teams based based on points accumulated in Ontario only events (St. Catharines Golf & CC Cash Spiel, Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, KW Fall Classic, AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic, Capital Curling Fall Open, Stu Sells Tankard, Capital Curling Classic, Players Open, Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel, Capital Curling Valley Open, Comco Cash Spiel, Stu Sells Port Elgin Superspiel, Stu Sells Living Waters Collingwood Classic, Stu Sells Brantford Nissan Classic). The remaining four teams qualify from an open qualifier.

Teams
The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout brackets
Source:

Knockout results
All draws are listed in Eastern Time (UTC−05:00).

Draw 7
Wednesday, January 24, 7:30 pm

Draw 8
Thursday, January 25, 9:30 am

Draw 9
Thursday, January 25, 2:30 pm

Draw 10
Thursday, January 25, 7:30 pm

Draw 11
Friday, January 26, 8:00 am

Draw 12
Friday, January 26, 12:15 pm

Draw 13
Friday, January 26, 4:30 pm

Draw 15
Saturday, January 27, 9:30 am

Draw 16
Saturday, January 27, 3:00 pm

A vs. B
Saturday, January 27, 8:00 pm

C1 vs. C2
Saturday, January 27, 8:00 pm

Semifinal
Sunday, January 28, 10:30 am

Final
Sunday, January 28, 3:00 pm

Open Qualifier
January 5–7, Oakville Curling Club, Oakville