Vernon Canadians
# Vernon Canadians

The Vernon Canadians were a men's ice hockey team from Vernon, British Columbia that played in the Okanagan Mainline League or the Okanagan Senior League from 1949 to 1961. In 1962, after the Okanagan Senior League folded, the Canadians became a beer league team and then an “old timers” team that still plays today.

The Vernon Canadians won the 1956 Allan Cup, becoming the national senior ice hockey champions. This made them Canada's representative for 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.

They were the Western Canada senior champion one more time, losing in the 1959 Allan Cup national finals to the Whitby Dunlops.

## Notable alumni

* Dick Butler
* Marcel Dheere
* Dave Gatherum
* Johnny Harms
* Bing Juckes
* Frank King
* Odie Lowe
* Dave MacKay
* Connie Madigan
* Doug McKay
* Jim McLeod
* Jack Miller
* Alex Ritson
* George Agar
* Walt Trentini
* Tom Stecyk
* Hal Gordon
* Orv Lavell
* Willie Schmidt
* Merv Bidoski
* Art Hart
* Don McLeod
