The Paralympic champions went through the entire tournament without losing a match to confirm their status as the best team on the planet. 

"We got off to a good start, stealing two," said Canadian Skip Jim Armstrong.

"We were very solid and the two girls [Sonja Gaudet and Ina Forrest] at the front end absolutely set the bar for wheelchair curling.

"They made it really easy for me, I honestly never had a tough shot. 

"In the round robin we were very close after five ends against Scotland but sometimes you have to play a little more aggressively and we had hard to play to beat them."

It is a second world championship title for Armstrong, Forrest and Gaudet while the fourth member of the team Darryl Neighbour was picking up his third World Championship gold.

Victory will help Armstrong (pictured) put a difficult few months behind him. 

Last month Armstrong was fined $30,000 (£18,500) by a United States court for selling counterfeit erectile dysfunction drugs following a trial which also saw his son, Gregory, sentenced to a year plus a day in prison for his involvement in the affair. 

Scotland Skip Aileen Neilson said that her team gave everything against the fearsome Canadians and were happy to be taking home silver.

"We knew we could come out here and give it our best shot," said Neilson.

"Canada played really well and we are absolutely delighted with silver.

"It’s beyond our wildest dreams."

Neilson led her Scottish side, made up of Tom Killin, Gregor Ewan and Angie Malone, to a convincing 12-1 win in the semi-final in the morning against Norway.

"This is the first major championship that the five of us have played together," she said.

"I think it’s obvious that we’ve really gelled well together.

"The guys have played great and given me great support on the ice and made my job easy."

The Norwegian’s, skipped by Rune Lorentsen, recovered quickly from their semi-final battering at the hands of Scotland to beat Russia in the bronze medal game 8-3.

"I’m very satisfied," said Lorentsen.

"We had a good start to the championship and went downhill in the middle.

"In the game against Scotland this morning I missed everything.

"It was a bad day at the office for me but now I’m feeling much better now."

Russia finished fourth overall to secure a place at the 2012 World Wheelchair Curling Championship next March in Chuncheon City in South Korea along with the gold, silver and bronze medallists.

China, Korea, the United States and Sweden, who finished fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth respectively, also qualified for the World Wheelchair Curling Championship next year.

But Germany and the Czech Republic face having to qualify for the two remaining spots at the World Wheelchair Curling Qualification event in October in Finland after they finished ninth and tenth respectively in Prague.

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