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Stanley Cup Finals - (1) Vancouver Canucks vs (3) Boston Bruins

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holy ouch.
low blow.
 

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It looks like Boston Pizza isn’t the only one to undergo a quick renaming in a show of support for the Vancouver Canucks.

Boston Bar, a town of about 800 in the Fraser Canyon between Yale and Lytton, will become Vancouver Bar for the duration of the Stanley Cup finals.

Lloyd Forman, director of the regional district in Boston Bar, has ordered eight-foot signs that say, “For the month of June, 2011, this town is Vancouver Bar.” The sign will be placed over a similarly sized one at the entrance to the town which currently says, “Welcome to Boston Bar.”

“And of course I’m hoping that after this we can take it down, and next year we can put them up again, but we can put a black line through 2011 and put 2012 instead,” Mr. Forman said.

According to Joan Blakeborough, who archives artifacts and books in a local history museum, the town was named after Boston men who came to pan gold in one of the sandbars in the Fraser River during the 1850s.

Mr. Forman said he believes the name change is a “good Canadian thing to do.” Many of the residents are loyal Canucks fans who sport team flags on their cars. On game nights, they throw on their jerseys and crowd into the town’s bowling centre and the two or three pubs to catch the game on a big screen.

“I think it’s a pretty cool idea, why not?” said Tim Hortons employee Karrie Wilkins, about the town’s name change. “It’s our hockey team, so whether you’re a fan or not, it’s just a way to show your support.”
 

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Boston Bar, a town of about 800 in the Fraser Canyon between Yale and Lytton, will become Vancouver Bar for the duration of the Stanley Cup finals.
The whole town is a bar? Fuck, I'm moving there!
 

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Oh Bolland. Your such a sissy
 

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The whole town is a bar? Fuck, I'm moving there!

That does sound enticing... But for the next couple weeks, FUCK VANCOUVER. :D, you know I love you guys, but this is war.
 

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The whole town is a bar? Fuck, I'm moving there!

bad news for ya ... its built up on a sand bar ... hence the name

worse news (maybe?): the towns inebriant of choice isnt alcohol ... it's cans of lysol
 

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Ah, I see. Vancouver does look pretty... I definitely wanna make it out there eventually.

let me know if you do we can hook up with puck et al and have some beers.
 

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Definitely... May even be next season. Im up in the air...

Montreal to Toronto to Buffalo trip. Or a Vancouver and Cali trip. All gonna depend on the 2011-2012 schedule.
 
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