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British Columbia Lacrosse History
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Ball and Stick game played by Nations of the interior of British Columbia
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Society of North American Hockey Historians and Researchers
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1872
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First mention of the game in the Press in British Columbia:
The editor of the Mainland Guardian, on return from a trip to the east wrote:
"Toronto is vivacious, racy fast. Th game of La Crosse has almost superseded the old English favorite and every lad of 5 with strength enough is now master of his La Crosse 'pitchs' and 'flies'. You are nobody unless you run like an Indian and get your optics discoloured and framework battered."
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1883
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Lacrosse in Victoria, B.C.
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Lacrosse Team in Victoria is recorded in photo available from the BC Archives. (dated Feb. 19. 1883; Photographer Spencer and Hastings)
Players shown in the photo are: W. Wadhams, A. Cameron, A.D. Crease, W. and R. McDonald, M. Walker (Captain), R. Finlayson, H. Smith, T. Bryden, H. Beaven, William Beaven, R. Harvey. The Photo shows Christ Church Cathedral in the background.
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1886
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Despite the 1883 picture cited above, most sources suggest that the first recorded game in British Columbia was played at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria between teams from Victoria and Vancouver
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1888
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Lacrosse play had been sporadic until this point, but with triangular competition established with the formation of a New Westminster club the game gained a sound footing.
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The first lacrosse tournament was held in Kamloops with Victoria beating Vancouver in the Final game.
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Alhambra Cup, emblematic of British Columbia Lacrosse supremacy first played for.
The game between the Vancouver and New Westminster clubs ended in a 2-2 draw.
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1890
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British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association
incorporated on March 22, 1890 with three teams:
Victoria, Vancouver and New Westminster
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Constitution and Rules British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association
adopted March 22nd, 1890, revise April 8th 1899
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Victoria = Provincial Champion
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1891
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Vancouver = Provincial Champion
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1892
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Vancouver = Provincial Champion
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1893
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1894
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1895
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1896
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Constitution and by-laws of the Capital Lacrosse Club
Victoria (adopted May 15, 1896)
(note first image is the cover but you can scroll through the entire book)
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Vancouver = Provincial Champion
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1897
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1898
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Founded on May 12th, the New Westminster Salmonbellies would play as a field lacrosse team until 1931.
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1899
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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~ 1890s
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Nass River, O.M.S. Kincolith Lacrosse Team.
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A photo showing an early Indian team can be found in the BC Archives here
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1900
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1901
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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First recorded lacrosse game was played in the Okanagan Valley. Vernon hosted Kelowna to a 2 - 2 tie.
The first interior league included Vernon, Kelowna, Kamloops and Revelstoke, joined later by Armstrong.
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1902
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New Westminster = Provincial Champions
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1903
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Kamloops Star Lacrosse Team
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Kamloops Star lacrosse team (photo in British Columbia Archives)
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A photo in the British Columbia Archives shows a 1904 Kamloops youth lacrosse team
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New Westminster wins its first Minto Cup (then given to the top senior team in Canada)
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Photo of the New Westminster Salmonbellies "Champions of the World" is available on the BC Archives here
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Photograph
Squamish Lacrosse Team 1910-1930, 20th century
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1905
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The senior lacrosse league of the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association consists of four clubs:
(D S-C)
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1906
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British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association Senior League makeup has changed to:
(D S-C)
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In September, through the efforts of Victoria Lacrosse Club, the Kilmarnock Cup (trophy for the provincial senior Championship)was donated on behalf of scotch distillers John Walker & Sons and brought over from Britain.
This cup would remain in competition until withdrawn at the close of the sixties.
(D S-C)
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1907
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New Westminster defeats Mount Pleasant Maple Leafs and becomes the first Kilmarnock Cup champion.
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1908
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Victoria rejoins the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association senior league.
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1908
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New Westminster travels to Montreal and in a challenge match wins its first Minto Cup (then given to the top senior team in Canada)
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Photo of the New Westminster Salmonbellies "Champions of the World" is available on the BC Archives here
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1909
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The British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association changes to professional play and is renamed the British Columbia Lacrosse Association. The "league" consists only two member teams:
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The British Columbia Coast Lacrosse Association is formed on May 9th to become the provincial governing body for amateur play.
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The Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association (PCALA) was formed with four clubs but only three ended up playing:
(D S-C)
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1910
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The Vancouver Maple Leafs fall by the wayside and the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association now consists of:
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The Vancouver Athletic Club would go on to the inaugural Mann Cup Playoffs but see defeat in a semi-final match to the eventual champions the Young Torontos.
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New Westminster Salmonbellies defeated Montréal Lacrosse Club and Montréal Nationals) in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1911
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Vancouver Athletic Club of Vancouver wins the first of its 4 consecutive Mann Cup Championships
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The Vancouver Lacrosse Club
Front row: M. Barr, N. Carter, A. Adamson, B. Fitzgerald, E. Lalonde, D. Phelan, S. Nichols, S. Sumner, B. Allen. Back row: H. Cowan, H. Woodman, B. West, G. Matheson, F. Ion, H. Godfrey, C. Jones, H. Pickering, H. Griffith, B. Clark, P. Muldoon, L. Yorke.
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North Vancouver Lacrosse Club applies for membership in the British Columbia Lacrosse Association (professional league) but is rejected after being soundly defeated in two test matches against the pro clubs.
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Vancouver Lacrosse Club - defeated New Westminster and Toronto Tecumsehs in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1912
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Vancouver Athletic Club of Vancouver wins the second of its 4 consecutive Mann Cup Championships
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Photograph
North Shore Lacrosse Team About 1912, 20th century
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1912 New Westminster Salmonbellies - defeated Cornwall in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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The tranquility of a Lacrosse Match
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1913
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New Westminster High School Youth lacrosse team photo on the BC Archives here
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John Robson High School
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The BCLA collapsed seven games into the season when, two weeks after the New Westminster Salmonbellies refused to start a game after issues with the Vancouver Lacrosse Club, the Vancouver side withdrew from the league on July 13, 1913.
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Vancouver Athletic Club of Vancouver wins the third of its 4 consecutive Mann Cup Championships
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New Westminster Salmonbellies - defeated Vancouver Athletic Club in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1914
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The Vancouver Athletic Club turned professional and replaced the Vancouver Lacrosse Club in the British Columbia Lacrosse Association , but failed to make it to the end of the season. They disbanded on July 8, 1914. So for a second year in a row the professional league failed to complete the season.
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The Vancouver Athletic Club defeated the Calgary Chinooks and Brampton Excelsiors in Mann Cup challenge matches, but the Mann Cup Trustees disputed the status of one of the Vancouver players and refused to recognize the Vancouver team and awarded the championship to the Chinooks. However, Vancouver refused to turn the cup over to either the trustees or the Calgary side.
Several years later (After the Mann Cup was turned over to the control of the Canadian Lacrosse Association in 1926) all references to the Calgary Chinooks title were removed from the recordsand and the opinions of the national lacrosse , amateur athletic organizations, and the BCLA bodies (that had all supported Vanocuver's position at the time of the wins )prevailed and the VAC is formally recognized as the winner of the series - their 4th consecutive Mann Cup.
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New Westminster Salmonbellies - won Minto Cup by default
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1915
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the first of 3 consecutive Mann Cup Championships (after a two year break they would win another 6 in a row from 1920-1925 and then win once more in 1927 before going on a decade long drought)
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A new pro league, the Western Lacrosse Association, was formed in 1915, but after the initlal announcement of the newly formed league consisting of teams in Vancouver and Victoria, no further mention of it is to be found.
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New Westminster and Vancouver resumed play with the British Columbia Lacrosse Association professional league
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The British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association was formed in May 1915 so now there were several bodies in the amateur ranks:
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New Westminster Salmonbellies - defeated Vancouver Lacrosse Club in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1916 - 1917
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Organized lacrosse essentially was suspended for the duration of the First World War.
There was no competition for the Minto Cup these two years
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1918
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With the British Columbia Lacrosse Association inactive, the Mainland Lacrosse Association was formed with New Westminster Salmonbellies and Vancouver Green Shirts pro teams.
Vancouver won the eight game series and claimed to be the Minto Cup Champions.
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The Vancouver Amateur Lacrosse Association resumed operation with two senior clubs:
In the junior ranks, the first use of the name Adanacs was made in lacrosse with the Vancouver Adanacs finishing second in the four team city junior league
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1919
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The Minto Cup Trustees and the British Columbia Lacrosse Association refused to recognize the results of the Mainland Lacrosse Association series, with New Westminster claiming that their club did not actually operate in 1918.
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The British Columbia Lacrosse Association professional circuit resumed play with two teams:
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The senior amateur Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association resumed play with three teams:
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The other senior league, the Vancouver Amateur Lacrosse Association saw competition between these teams:
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Victoria Foundation Shipyards wins the Mann Cup
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Victoria = Provincial Champion
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New Westminster Salmonbellies - defeated Vancouver Terminals in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1920
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Victoria withdrew from the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association in mid-season
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The Vancouver Amateur Lacrosse Association senior league consisted of these teams:
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Vancouver Terminals - defeated New Westminster Salmonbellies in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1921
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A second professional league, the Pacific Coast Lacrosse Association (not associated with the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association) was started consisting of two teams:
Just five games into the season, on June 13, 1921 the league disbanded.
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The Richmond Farmers, in addition to maintaining their Vancouver Amateur Lacrosse Association team, entered a club in the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association
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New Westminster Salmonbellies defeated Vancouver Terminals in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1922
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A league under the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association consisted of these senior teams:
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In the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association the teams consisted of the following:
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The Vancouver Lacrosse Club briefly held the Mann Cup in 1922.
As control of the Mann Cup had been retained by the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association (after the New Westminster Salmonbellies left that league to join the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association), when the Vancouver Lacrosse Club won their schedule they were awarded the Mann Cup,
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About a week after the Vancouver Lacrosse Club was awarded the Mann Cup a match between them, as champions of the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association, and the New Westminster Salmonbellies, as champions of the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association was held. The two teams met in a three game total goals series to determine who would take home both the Kilmarnock Cup and the Mann Cup.
The New Westminster Salmonbellies won when the Vancouver Lacrosse Club defaulted on the third game (with the Vancouver side up by the score of 7-6 after game two and a score of 1-1 in the third game) by refusing to return to the field after a brawl broke out.
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New Westminster Salmonbellies defeated Vancouver Terminals in Minto Cup Play for the professional championship of Canada
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1923
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The five team British Columbia Coast Lacrosse Association replaced the Pacific Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association and British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association leagues. Play was set up in two Divisions:
- Mainland Division
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- Vancouver Island Division
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The Mann Cup was turned over to the jurisdiction of the British Columbia Coast Lacrosse Association.
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Under the auspices of the British Columbia Amateur Athletic Union, the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association formed on July 20, 1923.
(D S-C)
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1924
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On June 3rd, the Vancouver Terminals withdrew from the two team professional British Columbia Lacrosse Association.
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Senior play continued in the four team British Columbia Coast Amateur Lacrosse Association with Victoria Garrison replacing the Victoria Capitals, and the Indians renaming their club the North Shore Athletics.
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The senior league of the Vancouver Amateur Lacrosse Association abandoned its schedule after just two games when it merged with the New Westminster Intermediate League
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New Westminster Salmonbellies - win the Minto Cup by default
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1925
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Senior A play consists of just two clubs in the Britsh Columbia Coast Lacrosse Association senior league:
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The Vancouver Native Sons and some remnants of the previous season's Intermediate League made up the Senior "B' League.
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From 1925 to 1936 there was no competition for the Minto Cup which was placed in storage by the Minto Cup Trustees . (The New Westminster Salmonbellies claim the titles for these years of non-competition)
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Women started playing the game in BC in an organized fashion
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1926
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The British Columbia Coast Lacrosse Association disbanded as its members merged with the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association on May 12th.
The BCALA was now the sole umbrella organization for the province.
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The Mann Cup was turned over to the control of the Canadian Amateur Lacrosse Association which abandoned the challenge format in favour of an East-West battle.
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A team from Ocean Falls, the Ocean Falls Amateur Athletic Association, consisting of many former players of the New Westminster Salmonbelliess who had gone to work in the local mill dfeated the senior league champion Richmond Farmers (9-7 over two games) to take the provincial championship.
The Ocean Falls side lost by just one goal to Winnipeg in the two game total point series to determine the Western Canada final.
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1927
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The New Westminster Salmonbellies took the league Championship over competition from the Vancouver Province Bluebirds and the Richmond Farmers before defeating the Toronto Westons in two games and taking the Mann Cup.
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1928
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Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the Olympics in 1928 in Amsterdam. The New Westmisnter Field Lacrosse Club represented Canada with the result being a three-way, one win-one loss tie with each of the three competing teams having scored 12 goals. The U.S. suggested a three-way playoff to decide a single victor; Canada agreed but England refused. The Olympic committee then declared all three teams gold medal winners.
The New Westminster Salmonbellies Olympic Team toured Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, England, Scotland and the Eastern United States.
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(from Down Memory Lane Article - 1928 Olympic Gold by Stan Shillington available on the BCLA web site here
Profile on Ab Brown, member of the New Westminster Salmonbellies
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1929
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New Westminster Salmonbellies and the Vancouver Waterfront Workers team began competition for the provincial championship, but the Vancouver side defaulted the final game on August 3rd.
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Four team womans league consists of:
- Richmond Milkmaids
- Vancouver Pirates
- Burnaby Cougars
- New Westminster
They played their games at Larwill Park, Central Park and Brighouse.
The mayor of Richmond, Rudy Grauer, coached the Milkmaids.
The women's league lasted fro 15 years and made the transition from field to box lacrosse in the early 30's but folded after the Second World War broke out.
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1930
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North Shore Athletics Lacrosse Team
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Photograph
About 1930, 20th century
Gift of Squamish Indian Band Office
Photograph Lacrosse team with trophy
1930-1950, 20th century
Gift of Squamish Band Office
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The Vancouver Lacrosse Club provided the competition to the New Westminster Salmonbellies for the Kilmarnock Cup.
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1931
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Although its origins are somewhat shrouded, Box Lacrosse was first played about this time. Some maintain that the game just naturally evolved around 1929 0r 1930 in Ontario when some lacrosse players in Ontario noticed hockey rinks sitting empty in the summer an moved in just to shoot the ball around. However according to Cleeve Dheenshaw Lacrosse 100: One Hundred Years of Lacrosse in B.C. 1990. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers) some sources give the credit to a British Columbian, Jim McConaghy:
"...[Jim McConaghy] apparently read a newspaper account of lacrosse being played in Australia with just seven men a side instead of the twelve men used in Canada, and that the Australians were playing the game in an enclosed indoor box instead of outdoors. Strangely enough, the story turned out to have no shred of truth in it whatsoever, but some old-timers insist it gave McConaghy the idea to go to the Canadian Amateur Lacrosse Association in 1931 with the idea for box lacrosse,
The first box lacrosse games in BC were played at the PNE (in the old Horse Show Building) and at Queens Park Arena.
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1931
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The New Westminster Salmonbellies faced a club sponsored by Home Oil in competition for the Kilmarnock Cup.
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1932
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Box lacrosse was adopted by the British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association on May 4th.
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1933
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Interest in the final game of the Mann Cup championship was so high that the final game (won by the eastern champion Hamilton Tigers) had to be moved by the Host New Westminster Salmonbellies to the Denman Arena of Frank Patrick where 11,000 fans took in the boxla match. The display of talent in this series is said to have cemented the position of Box Lacrosse in British Columbia.
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1934
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Formation of the Inter-City Lacrosse League which was active through 1966 (predecessor of the current Western Lacrosse Association) represented the highest level of play in the province.
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1936
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North Shore Aboriginals lacrosse team
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Photograph
North Shore Aboriginals lacrosse team 1936, 20th century
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Pamphlet
Official Box-LaProgram - Inter City League Hastings Park Vancouver
20 July 1937, 20th century
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1937
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Vancouver Burrard Olympics (predecessor of the current Maple Ridge Burrards) are founded by by Les Dickinson, Bill Calder, and Ed Bayley of the Burrard Liberal Association
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Trail Senior Lacrosse Team are the West Kootenay Lacrosse Champions
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photo
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1938
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Vancouver drops the word "Olympics" and play as the Vancouver Burrards from 1938-1949
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1939
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The New Westminster Adanacs win the Mann Cup
In what has been called the "fieriest victory celebration in B.C. Sports History," they staged their Fiery Celebration on the main street in town; setting fire to four cords of wood (about 8 of today's full sized pickup trucks with wood tossed in till the pile is even to the top of the cab) that they had dumped into the middle of Columbia Street, they partied along with supporters until nothing but warm ashes remained.
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1941
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The Trail Golden Bears won the second game of the best of three series but still fell to the Richmond Farmers in competition for the Kilmarnock Cup
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1942
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1942 Mann Cup
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1944
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1944 Mann Cup Mixup
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1945
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The Vancouver Burrards win the Mann Cup
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1947
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The New Westminster Adanacs win the Mann Cup
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In competition for the Kilmarnock Cup the Rossland Redmen fell to the New Westminster Adanacs
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1948
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1948 Mann Cup
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1949
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The Vancouver Burrards win the Mann Cup
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1950
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Vancouver becomes the Vancouver Burrard Westerns
A Victoria Senior team joined the Inter-City Lacrosse League and played under the name Victoria Shamrocks (1950 - 1982)
The Richmond Farmers move to Kerrisdale and are dubbed the Richmond-Kerrisdale Arkays
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1951
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The merger of the New Westminster Senior Team results in the formation of the New Westminster Commandos
The merger of the two Vancouver Senior Team results in the formation of the Vancouver Combines
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Mann Cup Follies
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1952
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The New Westminster Commandos team is renamed and plays as the New Westminster Salmonacs for 1952-53
Vancouver Combines Team, to reflect their new sponsorship, play as the Vancouver Pilseners for 1952 - 1958 seasons
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1952 Minto Cup
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1954
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New Westminster Salmonacs are renamed and play as the New Westminster Royals
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1955
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New Westminster Royals team returns to the New Westminster Salmonbellies name
The PNE Indians were renamed the Mount Pleasant Indians
The Nanaimo Native Sons were renamed the Nanaimo Timbermen
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The Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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1956
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The Nanaimo Timbermen win the Mann Cup
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1956 Mann Cup
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1957
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The Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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1957 Mann Cup Fiasco
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1958
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The New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1959
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New Westminster Salmonbellies Team plays as the New Westminster O’Keefes for 1959 - 1966
Vancouver Pilsners Team plays as the Vancouver Carlings for 1959-1969
The Nanaimo Timberman play as the Nanaimo Labatts
The Inter-City Lacrosse League thus consisted of the following teams:
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The New Westminster O'Keefes win the Mann Cup
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1959 Mann Cup
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1961
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The Vancouver Burrards win the Mann Cup
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1961 Minto Cup
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1962
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The Burnaby Norburns moved up from junior level to the senior level and the Inter-City Lacrosse League played for one year with five teams.
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The New Westminster O'Keefes win the Mann Cup
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1963
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The Vancouver Carlings win the Mann Cup
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1964
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The Vancouver Carlings win the Mann Cup
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1965
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The Nanaimo Labatts take a leave of absence from the Inter-City Lacrosse League and later disband
A new club, the Coquitlam Adanacs, joins the senior lacrosse ranks, so the league now consists of four teams:
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The New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1967
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The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame was the brain child of Tom Gordon. He was ably supported by Jack Fulton, Harry McKnight, Art Daoust, and Bill Ellison.
It was first proposed in 1963 at a CLA Annual Meeting, and adopted at the next CLA AGM. It was registered with the BC Societies Act in 1965. At the CLA AGM in Montreal on January 19, 1966, forty-eight first members were inducted to the Hall.
As a result of continued effort by Jack Fulton, supported by Harry McKnight and Don Benson, the official opening of the Hall as part of New Westminster Parks Board, took place on May 17, 1967.
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Don Benson took the first Bantam touring team to Ontario and Quebec ending at Expo 67.
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New Westminster O'Keefes Senior Team, the returns to the New Westminster Salmonbellies name
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The Vancouver Carlings win the Mann Cup
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1968
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Formation of the National Lacrosse Association (Western Division) (professional predecessor to the Western Lacrosse Association)
Coquitlam Adanacs team moves to Oregon and becomes the Portland Adanacs
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Box Lacrosse First Pro Championship
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1969
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Formation of the present day Western Lacrosse Association (and return to amateur status after the brief foray into professional play for the senior teams)
Portland Adanacs team returns to BC and resumes play as the Coquitlam Adanacs
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1970
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Vancouver Carlings Senior Team returns to the Vancouver Burrards name for 1970-1993
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1972
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1974
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1975
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Vancouver Burrards win the Mann Cup
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1976
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1977
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Vancouver Burrards win the Mann Cup
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1978
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Canada, 1978 Champions
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1979
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Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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1980
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First World Box Lacrosse Championship - 'Nations in 80 held in Vancouver
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Nations in '80
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1981
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1983
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Victoria Senior Team plays under the name Victoria Payless (1983-1993) and wins the Mann Cup
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1986
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Richmond Outlaws join in Western Lacrosse Association play
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1989
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1990
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Richmond Outlaws move and become the Burnaby Lakers Senior A team
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1991
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New Westminster Salmonbellies win the Mann Cup
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1991 Mann Cup
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1993
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Burrards move and become the Surrey Burrards (1994-1995)
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1994
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Field Lacrosse was the demonstration sport at the Commonwealth Games (held in Victoria)
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1994
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Victoria Senior Team returns to the Victoria Shamrocks name
North Shore Indians join the Western Lacrosse Association
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1995
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Surrey Burrards move and become the Maple Ridge Burrards
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1997
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Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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1999
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Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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2000
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North Shore Indians move to Kelowna and become the Okanagan Thunder (2000 - 2001)
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2001
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Coquitlam Adanacs win the Mann Cup
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Draft, 2001
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2002
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Okanagan Thunder return to North Vancouver as the North Shore Thunder (2002 - 2003)
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Draft, 2002
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2003
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North Shore Thunder relocate and become the Langley Thunder
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Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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2005
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Nanaimo Timbermen join the Western Lacrosse Association
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Victoria Shamrocks win the Mann Cup
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