OTTAWA - Canada's Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier captured a silver medal in the dance Sunday to wrap up a successful weekend for Canadian figure skaters at HomeSense Skate Canada International.
  
Crone, from Aurora, Ont., and Poirier, from Unionville, Ont., scored 81.89 points on their free dance to move up from fifth place and finish second with a combined score of 162.13 in their Grand Prix debut.

"Our free dance was as good as we can do it, and I'm just happy with what we've accomplished and I hope everybody enjoyed what we did," Crone said."

Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White captured their first Grand Prix victory with 178.89 points, while Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France earned the bronze with 159.06.

Andrea Chong of Toronto and Guillame Gfeller of Montreal were eighth with a score of 136.99.

Canada won a medal in all four disciplines at Skate Canada.

Patrick Chan of Ottawa, a 17-year-old that was thrust into the Canadian skating spotlight with the retirement of world champion Jeffrey Buttle in September, won the men's title, while Joannie Rochette of Ile-Dupas, Que., won the women's title.

Jessica Dube of Drummondville, Que., and Bryce Davison of Cambridge, Ont., bronze medallists at last season's world championships, won silver in the pairs.

"We had a camp in Vancouver in September and it was so great to see so many young and up and coming skaters, not only the veterans," Poirier said.

"I think it's a really hopeful place for Skate Canada right now, especially going into the Olympics in our home country and we just hope all this young talent can make it up to the top, that's the ultimate goal."

Crone and Poirier, who turns 17 on Thursday, skated a near flawless performance to "Doce de Coco" and wowed the crowd at the Scotiabank Centre with their innovative and athletic lifts, earning a standing ovation for their performance.

"Each year we try to make sure we don't use the same lifts, we try to create and create and create," Crone said. "This year we wanted to go for really hard technical lifts, and really we just take what we have and make it better or work a lot off the ice to get our lifts and do positions that nobody's done."

Crone and Poirier will compete at the Grand Prix in two weeks in Paris.