"Not bad for a bunch of four burnt-out curlers, hey?" Ferbey told the CBC after the game. "It's unbelievable, it's the pinnacle of what we play for."
It's the third world championship in four years for Ferbey, third Dave Nedohin, second Scott Pfeifer and lead Marcel Rocque. They also won in 2002 and 2003.
Ferbey joins the legendary Saskatchewan family of Ernie Richardson, Arnold Richardson and Sam Richardson with four world titles. Ferbey won a world crown in 1989 playing third with Pat Ryan.
Team Canada third David Nedohin celebrates after making his shot to score five in the third end against Scotland at the world curling championship final in Victoria on Sunday. (CP Photo/Chuck Stoody)
It's also Canada's 22nd world curling championship since 1968.
No one expected a blowout between Scotland, the founding nation of curling, and Canada, which some call the "new home" of curling.
Ferbey's Edmonton-based rink scored five points in two different ends in the eight-end victory.
Canada got off to a great start in Sunday's final with a steal of one in the opening end. Murdoch tried an in-off hit using his own rock on the outside of the rings, but the roll just slid behind the Canadian stone at the button for the single.
Scotland bounced back with a deuce in the second, but Canada quickly put the game out of reach with a remarkable team effort in the third end.
Pfeifer, the team's second, got things going early on when he knocked out a Scottish rock at the top of the rings and rolled his stone behind coverage.
Then, Ferbey made a clean runback to take out two Scotland rocks to sit three Canadian stones.
Murdoch twice attempted to put pressure on the Canadian team by drawing deep to the eight-foot on both of his shots, but both times, Nedohin was ready with clutch shots.
Nedohin made identical tap-backs to get rid of Murdoch's final two stones and give Canada a score of five and a commanding 6-2 lead.
It was the first time any team has scored five in a world championship final.
"It was just one of those ends where all of us made our shots," Ferbey told CBC at the break.
The Canadians blanked the sixth end to take the hammer, or last-rock advantage, into the seventh. The tactic paid off in a big way.
Once again, each member of the Canadian team made their shots and the end result was almost identical to the third end – Nedohin tapped back a Scotland stone to score five and take an insurmountable 11-3 lead.
Murdoch, a 26-year-old dairy farmer from Lockerbie, scored a single in the eighth before shaking hands and conceding the victory.
It was a long and arduous week for the Ferbey foursome, which came into the tournament as the favourites.
But instead of dominating the field from the outset, the four-time Canadian champions were uncharacteristically erratic, dropping their opening draw 10-5 to Germany's Andy Kapp and having to come from behind in several other games.
To get to the final, the Canadians had to win three straight playoff games – a tiebreaker over Finland's Markku Uusipaavalniemi, a quarter-final over Norway's Pal Trulsen and a semifinal over Kapp.
In those three games, Canada came out with the victory when the other skips missed crucial shots late in the match. But in Sunday's final, Ferbey, Nedohin, Pfeifer and Rocque were in complete control from start to finish.
By defeating Scotland, Canada became the first team to win four straight playoff games to win a world title.
"It's just so satisfying to come through the long road like that, and have to beat some of the very best teams in the world for the last four or five days and to stand on top of the podium," Nedohin said.
