The Victoria Blue Ribbons became the Dominoes in 1936 and the two teams were synonymous with basketball in Canada throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The nationally acclaimed Blue Ribbons won the Canadian title in 1933 & 1935. As the Dominoes, they reclaimed three more Canadian senior men's basketball championships in 1939, 1942 & 1946. Three of the Dominoes were named to Canada's silver medal winning team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Norm Baker, as a sixteen year old, led the Victoria Dominoes basketball team to a victory over the Harlem Globetrotters. Their originator, the legendary Abe Saperstein, called Norm "one of the greatest natural players I have ever seen." In 1950 he was named Canada's basketball player of the half-century and later that year he was the only non-US player selected to the Stars of the World team (the best pros and college players of the day) that toured Europe. Norm played four years as a pro in the old American Basketball Association including a contract with the Boston Whirly Birds, the forerunners of the Boston Celtics. His career included playing for the New Westminster 1947 Mann Cup national lacrosse team, four-time Canadian national champion Victoria Dominoes basketball team, and the national Air Force champion Pat Bay Gremlins. He is a member of the Canadian and BC Sports Halls of Fame.