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Japanese Tea Garden, Victoria, 1907

The Japanese Tea Garden operated in Gorge Park, Victoria, B.C. from 1907 to 1942. Source.

Champs-de-Mars, 1939

Once a parade ground, now a park, in 1939 the Champs-de-Mars in front of Montreal City Hall was working as a parking lot. Source.

Olga Alexandrovna's House

From 1952 to 1960 this bungalow at 2130 Camilla Road, Cooksville, Mississauga was home to Olga Alexandrovna, the younger sister of Tsar Nicholas II.

Pharoah's Daughter, 1950

Pharoah's Daughter (1950) by Bertram Brooker. Brooker was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters and also the winner of the first Governor General's Award for Fiction. Source.

Sigrun Lindal, Fjallkona, 1924

It's the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba in Gimli this weekend. In addition to Vikings roaming the streets the fjallkona or Lady of the Mountain can be seen. Sigrun Lindal played the fjallkona in 1924. Source.

Dunstan Massey

Saints Anselm and Dunstan, by Dunstan Massey, in Westminster Abbey, Mission BC. Source. Everything about Westminster Abbey seems to have sprung out of a Robertson Davies novel. It's a mid-20th-Century modernist Canadian institution with an utterly European cultural project that has enabled a talented, obscure individual to create a huge body of really fantastic religious art. There's a book about it by Daphne Sleigh.

Dominion

A Dominion store, 1284 Queen Street East, Toronto, September, 1929. Source.

About Edmonton FC

The Eddies were members of the NASL from 2011 to 2017. They play at Clarke Stadium, but use Commonwealth Stadium for their big games. They wear blue. Forward Tomi Ameobi, defender Alan Zebie and midfielder Edem Mortotsi are all veterans of the NASL squad.

Canadian Premier League:

Edmonton [2 - 0] HFX Wanderers

This is the first proper game between these two teams. They did kick the ball around during training camp, but only for sixty minutes.

HFX can finish the apertura with an equal number of wins and losses and a 0 goal difference if they win 0 - 1. Same for Edmonton if they win 3 - 0.

Wanderers are currently pulling in more fans than Dundee United. (See below.)

Pacific [3 - 1] Cavalry [Upset!]

Valour [1 - 3] York9

York9's Luca Gasparotto and Valour's Calum Ferguson both played in the Scottish leagues, but have not faced each other before today's match.

This ends the Spring Season.

Who owns the team?

Cavalry FC -- Spruce Meadows Sports and Entertainment

Edmonton FC -- the Fath brothers

Forge FC -- Bob Young

HFX Wanderers -- Sports and Entertainment Atlantic

Pacific FC -- SixFive Sports and Entertainment

Valour FC -- Winnipeg Blue Bombers

York9 FC -- York Sports and Entertainment

CPL pitches -- grass or plastic?

Cavalry -- grass

Edmonton -- plastic

Forge -- plastic

Wanderers -- grass

Pacific -- plastic

Valour -- plastic

York9 -- grass

Canadian Premier League and Scottish Championship attendances compared:

8511        Forge

6578        Valour

5963        HFX Wanderers

5078        Dundee United

5008        Dunfermline

4742        Falkirk

3894        Ross County

3752        Edmonton

3547        Pacific

3480        Cavalry

3042        Partick Thistle

2942        York9

2548        Inverness CT

2168        Ayr United

1948        Morton

1656        Queen of the South

1179        Alloa

(2019 CPL, retrieved June 27: Source. 2018-19 Scottish Championship: Source.)

What about those other teams?

26628    Toronto FC

22042    Vancouver Whitecaps

18569    Montreal Impact

  4752    Ottawa Fury

2018 MLS: Source. 2018 USLC: Source.

Tohoku Soccer League: Iwaki FC 5 - 0 Nippon Steel Kamaishi (yesterday)

Manageria: St Mirren are talking to have signed Alloa manager Jim Goodwin. Dundee have hired Gordon Strachan to run their academy.

Mortonalia: John Sutton, head of Morton's development squad, has signed a player contract. He's 35 and has previously appeared for a dozen clubs in England, Scotland and Australia.

Friendlies: That St Mirren/Coleraine match was cancelled. See all the pre-season friendlies at Scottish Football Fixtures.

The Scottish Challenge Cup, for the past three years called the Irn-Bru Cup for sponsorship reasons, will now be styled the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Cup.

All-Island League. There's a plan making the rounds to amalgamate the League of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Premier League. Source.

L. L. Fitzgerald Jigsaw Puzzle

L.L.Fitzgerald "The Tour of Inspection" as a jigsaw puzzle. Source.

Granville Street Banzai

Vancouver laid on a ceremonial arch for Prince Fushimi Sadanaru in June, 1907 as he crossed the continent on a diplomatic mission to England. Source.

Winnipeg General Strike

The Winnipeg General Strike began on this day in 1919. As in Barcelona, the first target was the tram cars. Source.