Vancouver's dynastic domination of Canadian senior women's basketball: 1942 to 1967.

oduction Zanadian women's basketball has seen two outstanding periods in :h single cities dominated the national senior championships. The first rese was the era of the renowned Edmonton Grads, a remarkable team won provincial, national, and international championships from 1923 to 0, and about which much has been written.' But the second period is familiar to students of Canadian sport history, and concerns the sequent domination of the national scene by teams from the city of couver. During the twenty-six years from 1942 to 1967, Vancouver ns won the Canadian senior women' s championship twenty-one times. 1 paper examines this domination and the conditions that produced it, particular attention give to two teams whose series of continuous xies warrant their designation as sports dynasties. he chart that follows lists the winning team for each year of the period zr study, as well as the team that was defeated in the Canadian final 2s or tournament. Thus, the reader is able to see quite readily, not only jominance of Vancouver-based teams, but also the regional location of losing team-a significant factor in the larger story of women's retball in Canada, and a factor that will be treated in some detail in this ?r. lata were collected from two sources: newspaper articles of the day, interviews with eleven former players.2 This report starts during World II, when the Hedlunds team dominated the Canadian scene; then, after ort transition period, the Eilers team began its national rule for most of 'Ifties. Finally, during the sixties, different Vancouver teams rose to the and other cities became more competitive.