Flags appeared in shop windows before anyone could agree on who to cheer for. Restaurants stretched their hours. And across the Lower Mainland, the same question echoed from porch to patio: did you see the match?
What began as a sporting event became something closer to a civic ritual — a rare moment when streets that usually keep to themselves spilled out onto the sidewalk together.
For one summer, the whole city was on the same side.
That is the BC this magazine was built to cover: not one community at a time, but all of them. (Sample story — replace with your own.)