The Big-4 League was a top-level senior ice hockey league that operated in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for two seasons between 1919 and 1921. Created with the intention of competing for the
Barney Stanley was one of the former PCHA stars lured to Alberta by the Big-4
Bill Tobin with the Edmonton Eskimos
Duke Keats with the Edmonton Eskimos
Wilf Talbot with the Edmonton Hustlers
The Western Canada Hockey League, founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada. It was renamed the Western Hockey League in 1925 and disbanded
League president E. L. "Ernie" Richardson.
Bill Cook with the Saskatoon Crescents