The Victoria Travellers Football Club was a

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that played in the

British Columbia Rugby Football Union The British Columbia Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on September, 1, 1926. It lasted for 15 seasons, disbanding in 1941 as the Second World War brought most league football to a close. It was a member of the Western Can ...

and the

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Club. The team was sponsored by the Order of United Commercial Travelers, a service organization known for its good works, which had recently expanded into Canada. The sponsorship ended in

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but the club continued on under another name. The ''Victoria Travellers Football Club'' won the first ''BCRFU championship'', their only one in 8 seasons.

Victoria Capitals

The team was renamed ''Capitals'' in

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, and lasted to

. A popular sports club, it fielded several other sports teams.Labour had its own baseball team a century ago. It defied racism
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Victoria Revellers

The final BCRFU team in Victoria was the ''Revellers'', playing in

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and

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and winning the championship in the league's final season.

BCRFU season-by-season

Other Victoria, B.C. based team

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References

Defunct Canadian football teams