Take a Brisk Dip at the Annual Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver
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Country: Canada 
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- Polar Bear Swim Vancouver - Panorama
- Polar Bear Swim 2008 (88th Annual) -Vancouver Park Board
- The Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Club is one of the largest and oldest Polar Bear Clubs in the world. Its initial swim was in 1920 when a small number of hardy swimmers took the plunge into English Bay on New Year's Day.
Media References
- Polar Bear Club Swims: New Year Parties (Don't Hold the Ice) - NY Times.com (newspaper)
- ON New Year's Day, as the world slowly sloughs off hangovers and cleans up confetti, crowds gather to watch people throw themselves into frigid bodies of water.
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