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From 1914 to 1947 the Mainland Cup was the pinnacle of B.C. soccer.

“There wasn’t a formal provincial championship, so if you won the Mainland Cup, you were essentially the top team in B.C.,” explains Jason Beck of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

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“For a 40 year period, it was the most significant soccer trophy in B.C.”

But it disappeared in the late 1940s, and nobody had a clue what happened to it.

“People have asked me about this trophy, and I thought it was lost,” said Beck.

Then Beck got a phone call from Dick Fryatt, the son of the late B.C. soccer legend Dave Fryatt.

“Dave passed away a couple of years ago, unfortunately, and Dick was doing a cleanup of his father’s house,” said Beck.

“He said I’ve got this large trophy, it has these two big arms, it’s really elaborate.’ I hadn’t seen a photo of it, but on a whim I said ‘Does it say Mainland on it?’

“He said ‘That’s it! How did you know that?’ I said ‘Because everyone’s been looking for this trophy for 30 or 40 years.’”