Long rumored but now official http://charlestonbattery.com/news/battery-and-vancouver-whitecaps-fc-enter-affiliate-partnership/
from the local paper http://m.postandcourier.com/article/20140123/PC20/140129720&template=mobile_story and Dan the Man talks with Andrew Bell about the affiliation http://www.chssoccer.net/battery-whitecaps-make-it-official/