Back in 2012, CBC Radio One's Vancouver drive-home show, On the Coast, recruited Dan Mangan to sing a song created in collaboration with CBC Music producer Jon Siddall. The song was to be an ode to Christmas, Vancouver-style, with lyric ideas crowd-sourced from radio listeners.

The result? "A Very Vancouver Christmas". Which, while it's not the only seasonal song with local references in the lyrics, is arguably the only good one. Your mileage may vary, of course. 

In case you want to sing along:

It’s Christmas in Vancouver, no snowflakes falling down
Won’t all the cars be happy, the bike lanes go year round
It’s Christmas in Vancouver, no need for tire chains
The heat from our hot yoga is fuelling climate change

It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas

The mountains and the beaches, how they make children sing
And all they want this Christmas is affordable housing
The parents working overtime for presents round the tree
Something loud with parts that bang; ain’t nothing come for free

Usually there’s hockey to keep our spirits keen
Where are you Trevor Linden, where are the twins Sedin?

It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas

So Christmas in Vancouver is admittedly West Coast
But wait for February when you call your Aunt Lois
Maybe she lives in Calgary, the Peg or Montreal
She’ll talk of shovelled driveways, you’ll be cycling the seawall

It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas
It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas, it’s a very very Vancouver Christmas...