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The Vancouver Canucks
Founded in 1970,
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional National Hockey League ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their home arena is General Motors Place.
The Canucks have been a very successful organization with two appearances in the Stanley Cup finals. Many stars have emerged from this organization including Markus Naslund, Stan Smyl, and Trevor Linden. The legendary Mark Messier also spent two seasons with the team.
The Vancouver Giants
The
Vancouver Giants are the BC Division affiliate of the
Western Hockey League. The Giants play at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British
Columbia. The giants have had many good seasons including playoff drives.
The team includes several NHL hopefuls and many top prospects.
The Vancouver Whitecaps FC
With both a men's and women's team
The Vancouver Whitecaps (officially Whitecaps F.C.) are Canadian professional soccer teams, which currently play in the USL First Division of the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the largest system of national soccer leagues in North America. Both teams play at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, British Columbia. Recent accomplishments of the organization include the league championship twice in the last three years.
The Vancouver Canadians
The Vancouver Canadians are the Northwest League affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. They are a minor league baseball franchise (dating back to 1979). The Canadians have had players like Jose Canseco, Rod Beck, Rickey Henderson, Scott Brosius, Jason Giambi, Tim Hudson and Miguel Tejada.
They play home games at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.
The B.C. Lions
Founded in 1954 The British Columbia Lions are a Canadian Football League team
based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They play in the West Division. Their home
field is BC Place (located near GM place the home of the Canucks). Like many
other B.C. based organizations the Lions are known for their success. They
currently sit on top of league standings and are undefeated this season! The
Lions have many Grey Cups to their credit including the '64, '85, '94, '00,
and '06 seasons.
Kingsway Shito-Ryu Karate-Do
"Odokan"
Traditional Japanese Karate-Do
Kaz Hashimoto
and
Mark Stacey
have been the instructors of Kingsway Shito-ryu "Odokan" since it
was founded in 1987. Both
are experienced competitors and have represented Canada as National Team
competitors and coaches.
Kaz Hashimoto in
particular is recognized as one of the best karate athletes to ever represent
Canada, and continues to hold Canadian medal records for his national and
international competitive achievements.
604-430-4237
2501 Kingsway Vancouver B.C.
Canada V5R 5H1
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Contact Robert Maley at
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