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What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« on: April 07, 2025, 08:35:22 pm »

What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker

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The Boston Bruins got their name in 1924 courtesy of general manager Art Ross, who was tasked by the team's owner to create an "untamed animal" nickname. For the NHL franchise. "Bruin" was an Old English word for a brown bear, which was adopted as the team's mascot.

On Wednesday night, the bears from Boston will roar into Vancouver for Game 1 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals against the Canucks, who will … well, we're not entirely sure what it is a "Canuck" does.

Or, for that matter, how the Western Conference champions ended up being called the "Vancouver Canucks" to begin with.

Turns out, it's a tale that spans from slang to literature to political cartoons to comic books to Moose Jaw to goalie Roberto Luongo's mask.

"Canuck" is defined as slang term meaning "a Canadian, especially a French Canadian."

Where did it originate? One theory from the Online Etymology Dictionary is that it dates back to 1835 and is a mash-up of "Canada" and "Chinook," the native tribe found in the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Another, from the Random House Dictionary, is that "Canuck" originated from "kanaka," the word used to describe a South Sea Islander, many of whom worked the fur trade on the Pacific Coast with French Canadians. "Kanaka" plus Canada eventually morphed into "Canak."

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https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/canuck-mystery-behind-vancouver-hockey-moniker-004628744.html
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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2025, 08:39:41 pm »
Coolest jersey ever.

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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2025, 09:02:34 pm »
Of interest @Canuck Conservative!
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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2025, 09:11:10 pm »
No, this is the coolest jersey ever!

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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2025, 09:17:33 pm »
Êtes-vous un amateur de hockey, @mystery-ak ?
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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2025, 09:21:02 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on April 07, 2025, 09:17:33 pm
Êtes-vous un amateur de hockey, @mystery-ak ?

No....Mikita was my son's favorite player...and Mikita was related to me...
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Re: What’s a Canuck? Mystery behind Vancouver’s hockey moniker
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2025, 09:21:06 pm »
I think the name ties in with French-Canadians somehow ...

"Chinook" was also the former pidgin trade language in the Northwest, a kind of "Esperanto" that both Natives and whites could understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon

**BTW, that Canucks jersey was a radical design (1982), the only one in pro sports that had black, quite controversial at the time (nobody wore black then!) Now it seems everybody's got the cool black jerseys ...
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