VGHQ was born as a satellite of canuckshq.com version 10 back in November of 2004 under the name giantshq (GHQ). It was created as a way to provide hq's users with some hockey news during the NHL lockout days. The Giants forum was actually a subforum within hq's main message board .
But being big WHL fans, and now that the NHL was back in action, Don and Henry decided it was time for the GHQ go one step further. So projects started to develop an exclusive Giants site that was completely independent of its Canucks component, in other words, a site exclusively designed for WHL and Giants fans.
Originally this Giants site was going to be developed as a sister site of canuckshq, however in summer 2006 the hq franchise took a dramatic turn, getting a new owner, a new look, and a new name: canucksaccess.com. It was finally time for the GHQ component to go solo and get its own voice. On October 2006 GHQ name was changed to Vancouver Giants Headquarters (VGHQ) and a domain name was bought, for the first time in the site's history it had its own domain and absolute independence. And so the building phase started, aming for a release date in late December or early 2007. |