It is the 36 time Canada have won the title, while they have become the first country to win both the men's and women's title in the same year.
Canada's Brad Gushue completed a ideal run at the Ford World Men's Curling Championship on Sunday with a 4-2 victory over Sweden's Niklas Edin in the gold-medal game. Gushue beat him once during an 11-0 round-robin, topped him in the Page 1-2 game and did it again when it counted most.
Gushue won that second showdown 7-4 Friday to earn a direct berth to the gold-medal game and hammer advantage to start.
The game's first deuce gave Gushue the lead and he ran Sweden out of rocks in the 10th for his first world men's championship. We missed a couple of opportunities, but I was very happy with how we played overall.
There's no rest for the world's best, however.
Announced attendance at the Northlands Coliseum was 7,292 for the final, bringing overall attendance to 85,214. Switzerland, in turn, lost to Sweden's Niklas Edin in an extra end late Saturday in the semifinals. He was exasperated after a throw was slightly offline in the fourth end, his hit rolling out a little too far for a single.
Canada's skip Brad Gushue would eventually make the breakthrough by scoring two in the ninth, before forcing Sweden to concede in the final end.
Gushue had to draw to the button against two on the opening end and made the shot by an inch.
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At the halfway mark the United States held a 3-2 lead, but the seventh end would prove pivotal as Swiss skip Peter De Cruz led his team to a crucial score of four to move into the lead.
Gushue, skip of unbeaten Canada, said: "We played well".
The St. John's skip went the patient route for the latest title of his glittering curling career.
"The biggest thing is we're writing it in as world champions", he said.
"We belong with the best", he said of his team that included 25-year-old last rock thrower Benoit Schwarz, third Claudio Paetz and lead Valentin Tanner after a 7-5 win over John Shuster's Americans to win the bronze medal Saturday afternoon.
The venue holds the world men's championship attendance record of 184,970 in 2007.
Calgary skip Kevin Koe won the 2016 world men's title in Basel, Switzerland.
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