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The Fernie Swastikas were a women’s hockey team that was formed in 1922 in Fernie British Columbia. Their uniform used as a symbol the swastika which before World War II was a common religious symbol and especially a sun sign. In 1923 the Swastikas won the Alpine Cup at the Banff Winter Carnival women’s ice hockey championship. There were two other teams called the Swastikas one in Edmonton Alberta and another the Windsor Swastikas Windsor Nova Scotia.
