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Vernon Canadians


The Vernon Canadians are a defunct men's ice hockey team from Vernon, British Columbia that played in the Okanagan Mainline League and the Okanagan Senior League throughout their combined 12-year history.

The Vernon Canadians won the Allan Cup in 1956 and would have gone on to the 1957 World Ice Hockey Championships, but the tournaments was being held in Moscow, and western nations boycotted them in protest over the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary in 1956.

The played in, but lost the 1959 Allan Cup final to the Whitby Dunlops.

The Vernon Canadians, and all the other teams in the Okanagan Senior League, ceased operations in 1961.

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