The Boston Bruins face off against the Vancouver Canucks tonight in Canada for the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals. The sports section of The Province — one of two of British Columbia’s major daily papers — today released a list of “Totally True Facts About the City of Boston.” With the exception of the last statement, we have to give it to the Canucks for being pretty spot on in their jesting characterization of our city:

-On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the very first phone call in history from his Boston machine shop. The call was to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, who thought the whole thing was wicked awesome.

-The average price for a bowl of New England clam chowder in Boston restaurants is $4.40. Unless you’re from New York, in which case the price is go **** yourself.

-Boston is home to both America’s first public park (The Boston Common, 1634) and first subway (Tremont Street, 1901). And on March 23, 1902, Bostonian Pat “Patches” O’Flannery became the first person to drunkenly urinate in each of them on the same day.

-The city was once called “Boston: The Athens of America.” However, in an effort to boost tourism, it’s now known as “Boston: Come see Mark Wahlberg with his shirt off.”

-Harvard University (5.5 km northwest of downtown Boston) has been the setting for a number of noteworthy films. There was The Social Network, the story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbeg. There was Good Will Hunting, the story of a young mathematics genius. And there was The Harvard Man, the story of a man who went to Harvard.

-Boston is the capital of Massachusetts, which goes by the state motto, “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.” This replaced the original motto, “Peace or we start throwing tea in the harbour again.”

-The city’s crime rate has fallen dramatically in the past decade, so much so that the phenomenon has been deemed the “Boston Miracle.” Another Boston miracle was when the Bruins scored on the power play.