With only a week left to go before toy manufacturing giant Hasbro finalizes its design for the Canadian version of the game Monopoly, folks from Cambridge are scrambling to have the city featured on the popular board game.

Cities from all across Canada are presently “duking it out” for spots on the new Canadian Monopoly board, which will feature Canadian cities and towns instead of the usual street names.

Toy manufacturer Hasbro recently released a list of prospective cities to be considered for the board, and then announced on their website that people can vote for their chosen city and town that’s not on the list.

As of today, the City of Cambridge is sitting at the number 20 spot on the Wild Card list, which is comprised of cities not on Hasbro’s announced tally. For the city to be one of those considered for the Monopoly board, it has to make it into the top 10 no later than February 8, 2010.

In other words, Cambridge will be out of the running if votes don’t pick up in less than a week.

If you want to know more about the contest and help our city out, you can logon to www.cambridge.ca or www.monopolyvote.ca.