1.
Ice hockey
–
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. In North America, the National Hockey League is the highest level for mens hockey, the Kontinental Hockey League is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation is the governing body for international ice hockey. The IIHF manages international tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking, worldwide, there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries. Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and these games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed, such as shinny and ice polo. The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Amateur ice hockey began in the 1880s, and professional ice hockey originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy, was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion, in international competitions, the national teams of six countries predominate, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in mens competition at the Olympics, in the annual Ice Hockey World Championships,177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations. In Russia and the Ukraine, where hockey can also refer to bandy, the name hockey has no clear origin. The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word hockey when he translated the proclamation in 1720, the 1573 Statute of Galway banned a sport called hokie—the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves. A form of this word was thus being used in the 16th century, though much removed from its current usage. According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc. The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck. Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times, in Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey. IJscolf, a game resembling colf on a surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a curved bat, a wooden or leather ball
2.
Ontario
–
Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
3.
Northern Ontario Hockey Association
–
The Northern Ontario Hockey Association is minor and junior level ice hockey governing body. The NOHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada, the major league run by the NOHA is the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League of the Canadian Junior A Hockey League. There used to be a Junior B league called the North of Superior Junior B Hockey League, there was also a NOHA Jr. B League, but it became the NOJHL in 1978, the International Junior B Hockey League existed for many years as well. The NOHA was founded in 1919 and that year became affiliated with the Ontario Hockey Association. Decades later, that affiliation was broken but both now operate under the Ontario Hockey Federation and this does not include the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League, which is privately run outside of Hockey Canada and are not affiliated. The Ottawa District governs the part of Ontario East of and including Lanark County, Renfrew County, and Leeds County, Hockey Northwestern Ontario has control of the section of Northwestern Ontario west of the 85th meridian
4.
Hockey Eastern Ontario
–
The ODHA is one of thirteen regional branches of Hockey Canada. The ODHA became HEO in the Summer of 2013, the roots of Hockey Eastern Ontario date back to the 1890s. In 1890, the Ontario Hockey Association was organized and a league was formed. At the same time, the Ottawa City Hockey League was organized, in 1894, the Ottawa Hockey Association, owners of the senior Ottawa Hockey Club and organizer of the OCHL resigned from the OHA over a dispute over the Cosby Cup. Several organizations came and went over the twenty years, such as the Eastern Ontario Hockey Association. Teams also played in leagues with Quebec teams, in 1920, the Ottawa and Valley branch of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada was formed. It eventually became the Ottawa District Hockey Association
5.
Hockey Northwestern Ontario
–
Hockey Northwestern Ontario is the governing body of all ice hockey in Northern Ontario, Canada. Hockey Northwestern Ontario is a branch of Hockey Canada, empowered by Hockey Canada, Hockey Northwestern Ontario has control of all senior, junior and minor hockey in the section of Northwestern Ontario west of the 85th meridian. The association is responsible for controlling all hockey not controlled by the OHF or the HEO in Ontario, the senior league disbanded over the period of 2011–2016. The Kenora Thistles suspended operations in January 2016, the senior league champion played the southern Ontario Allan Cup Hockey league for the Renwick Cup. List of ice hockey teams in Ontario Thunder Bay Flyers Thunder Bay Bombers HNO Website
6.
Allan Cup Hockey
–
Allan Cup Hockey is the top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in the province of Ontario. As a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, the league came to its latest incarnation when it lost several teams leaving it with two and as a result it merged with the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League in 2008. In 2011, the changed its name from Major League Hockey to Allan Cup Hockey. Major League Hockey gained its name in 2003, since 1990, Major League Hockey was known as the Southwestern Senior A Hockey League. This league was created through a merger between the Central Senior B Hockey League, the Seaway-Cyclone Senior B Hockey League, and the Southern Ontario Senior A Hockey League. The formation of the Major League Hockey marked the first time since 1987, in 2005, the OHA also granted the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League the same status. Major League Hockey, despite its fruitation in 1990, has its roots scattered across a variety of dating back as far as 1959. The first season of Ontario Hockey Association senior hockey was the 1890-91 season, ottawa Hockey Club won the first ever Senior title defeating Toronto St. Georges 5–0. The first Major league came in 1929, known as the OHA Senior A Hockey League, the league lasted for fifty season, its teams winning 16 Allan Cups. The league was replaced by the Continental Senior A Hockey League in 1979, the Continental league was renamed the OHA Senior A Hockey League in 1980 and lasted until 1987. Teams of the Continental league won 4 Allan Cups, in 2008, the Brantford Blast became the first OHA team since the Brantford Motts Clamatos in 1987 to win the Allan Cup. As hosts of the 2008 Allan Cup, the Blast failed to win their league and were allowed to bypass the OHA Final against the Whitby Dunlops, after almost a months rest, the Blast competed at home for the Allan Cup and won the entire thing. After suffering their only loss of the tournament to the Shawinigan Xtreme in the first game and they defeated the Robertson Cup and EOSHL champion Whitby Dunlops in the quarter-final. They then knocked off the Major League Hockey and Renwick Cup champion Dundas Real McCoys in the semi-final and they met Bentley again in the final, and defeated them 3-1 to win the Canadian National Senior AAA crown. In the 2008 off-season, Major League Hockey ran into some issues, the Windsor St. Clair Saints, the leagues only college team, walked away from the league. The Tillsonburg Vipers have officially left the league, as they have applied for expansion into the independent Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League, the Petrolia Squires are stranded far away from Brantford and Dundas and have also been accepted into the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League. In the EOSHL, the Frankford Huskies and Marmora Lakers have walked away as well, in May 2008, it was announced that Major League Hockey was going to merge with the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League. Major Hockey League was down to two teams and the Eastern League down to three at the time, but this brings the MLH up to five again
7.
Ontario Hockey League
–
The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 16–21, the league was formed in 1933 with the partition of Junior A and B. In 1970, the OHA Junior A League was one of five Junior A leagues operating in Ontario, the OHA was promoted to Tier I Junior A for the 1970-71 season and took up the name Ontario Major Junior Hockey League. In 1980, the league walked away from Ontario Hockey Association governance with the creation of the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, from 1974 until 1978, Clarence Tubby Schmalz was the leagues commissioner. Then, for one season, former IHL commissioner Bill Beagan served as commissioner of the OMJHL, beginning with the 1979-80 season, David Branch has been the Commissioner of the OHL. Branch was appointed on August 11,1979, and assumed the role on September 17,1979. Since 1980 the league has grown rapidly into a marketable product, with many games broadcast on television. There are currently 20 teams in the OHL,17 are based in the Canadian province of Ontario, leagues for ice hockey in Ontario were first organized in 1890 by the newly created Ontario Hockey Association. In 1892 the OHA recognized junior hockey - referring to skill rather than age, in 1896 the OHA moved to the modern age-limited junior hockey concept, distinct from senior and intermediate divisions. Since then the evolution to the Ontario Hockey League has developed four distinct eras of junior-aged non-professional hockey in Ontario. In 1933, the division was divided into two levels, Junior A and Junior B. In 1970 the Junior A level was divided into two levels, Tier I and Tier II, in 1974 the Tier I/Major Junior A group separated from the OHA and became the independent Ontario Major Junior Hockey League. In 1980, the OMJHL became the Ontario Hockey League, the 20 OHL clubs play a 68-game unbalanced schedule, which starts in the third full week of September, running until the third week of March. Ninety percent of OHL games are scheduled between Thursday and Sunday to minimize the number of school days missed for its players. Approximately 20% of players on active rosters in the National Hockey League have come from the OHL, the J. Ross Robertson Cup is awarded annually to the winner of the Championship Series. The Cup is named for John Ross Robertson, who was president of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1901 to 1905, the OHL playoffs consist of the top 16 teams in the league,8 from each conference. The teams play a game series, and the winner of each series advances to the next round. The final two teams compete for the J. Ross Robertson Cup
8.
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
–
An avid sportsman, he built Stanley House Stables in England, and is famous in North America for presenting Canada with the Stanley Cup. Stanley was also one of the inductees of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Derby was the son of Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. He was born in London and was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and he received a commission in the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of Captain. Derby left the army for politics, serving as a Conservative Member of Parliament, in government, he served as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Financial Secretary to the War Office, Secretary to the Treasury, War Secretary and Colonial Secretary. In 1886 he was created Baron Stanley of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster and he served as President of the Board of Trade, remaining in that office until he was appointed Governor General of Canada. Stanley was appointed the Governor General of Canada and Commander in Chief of Prince Edward Island on 1 May 1888, during his term as Governor General, he travelled often and widely throughout the country. During his visit he dedicated Stanley Park, which is named after him and he also experienced the joys of fishing and avidly pursued the sport whenever his busy schedule allowed. When Sir John A. Macdonald died in office of heart failure on 6 June 1891 and he asked Sir John Abbott to take over as prime minister. Once the government was in place, Abbott resigned for health reasons, Derby helped cement the non-political role of the governor general when, in 1891, he refused to agree to a controversial motion in the House of Commons. The opposition to the bill was introduced by the provinces who were motivated by mistrust of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec. Derby declined to interfere, citing the proposed disallowal as unconstitutional, in holding to this decision, he gained popularity by refusing to compromise the viceregal position of political neutrality. Derbys wife, whom Sir Wilfrid Laurier described as an able and witty woman, in 1891, she founded the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses on Rideau Street, the first nursing school in Ottawa. She was also a fan of hockey games at the Rideau Rink. Derbys sons became avid ice hockey players in Canada, playing in amateur leagues in Ottawa, in 1892, Derby gave Canada a treasured national icon, the Stanley Cup. He originally donated the trophy as a cup for Canadas best amateur hockey club. Since 1926, only teams of the National Hockey League have competed for the trophy and this now famous cup bears Derbys name as tribute to his encouragement and love of outdoor life and sport in Canada. In recognition of this, Derby was inducted into the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 in the Honoured Builders category, the original size of the Stanley Cup was 7 inches and is now around 36 inches and 35 pounds
9.
Governor General of Canada
–
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. The commission is for a period of time—known as serving at Her Majestys pleasure—though five years is the normal convention. Beginning in 1959, it has also been traditional to rotate between anglophone and francophone incumbents, once in office, the governor general maintains direct contact with the Queen, wherever she may be at the time. The office began in the 16th and 17th centuries with the Crown-appointed governors of the French colony of Canada followed by the British governors of Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries, subsequently, the office is, along with the Crown, the oldest continuous institution in Canada. Throughout this process of gradually increasing Canadian independence, the role of governor general took on additional responsibilities, finally, in 1947, King George VI issued letters patent allowing the viceroy to carry out almost all of the monarchs powers on his or her behalf. The current governor general is David Johnston, who has served since 1 October 2010, johnstons wife—who is thus the viceregal consort—is Sharon Johnston. The Government of Canada spells the title governor general without a hyphen, the Canadian media still often use the governor-general spelling. As governor is the noun in the title, it is pluralized, thus, governors general, moreover, both terms are capitalized when used in the formal title preceding an incumbents name. The position of general is mandated by both the Constitution Act,1867, and the letters patent issued in 1947 by King George VI. As such, on the recommendation of his or her Canadian prime minister and that individual is, from then until being sworn-in, referred to as the governor general-designate. Besides the administration of the oaths of office, there is no set formula for the swearing-in of a governor general-designate, the governor general will then give a speech, outlining whichever cause or causes he or she will champion during his or her time as viceroy. The incumbent will generally serve for at least five years, though this is only a convention. The prime minister may recommend to the Queen that the viceroy remain in her service for a longer period of time. A governor general may also resign, and two have died in office, the sovereign has unrestricted freedom of choice. We leave that to Her Majesty in all confidence, however, between 1867 and 1931, governors general were appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British Cabinet. Thereafter, in accordance with the Statute of Westminster 1931, the appointment was made by the sovereign with the direction of his or her Canadian ministers only. Until 1952, all governors general were also members of the Peerage or sons of peers. These viceroys spent a limited time in Canada, but their travel schedules were so extensive that they could learn more about Canada in five years than many Canadians in a lifetime
10.
Ottawa Senators (original)
–
The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team
11.
Cosby Cup
–
The Cosby Cup was the trophy given to the champions of the Ontario Hockey Association from its founding in 1890 until its replacement in 1899 by the John Ross Robertson Cup. The Cosby Cup was donated by businessman A. Morgan Cosby, the OHA playoffs at the time consisted of play-downs from a limited number of teams. At the start, there was Lindsay, Ottawa, Kingston Queens University, Toronto Osgoode Hall, Toronto St. Georges and these were the only teams of the OHA upon its founding, but the league started adding divisions in 1896, splitting into junior, intermediate and senior. The Cosby Cup was awarded to the champions until the John Ross Robertson trophies were donated in 1899. The Cosby Cup was given permanently to Queens University, podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame
12.
Stanley Cup
–
The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and folds, it was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926. There are actually three Stanley Cups, the bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the authenticated Presentation Cup. The NHL has maintained control over both the trophy itself and its associated trademarks. Nevertheless, the NHL does not actually own the trophy, the original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimetres in height and 29 centimetres in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the bowl, is made of a silver and nickel alloy, it has a height of 89.54 centimetres. Unlike the trophies awarded by the major professional sports leagues of North America. Originally, the winners kept it until a new champion was crowned, currently, winning teams get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. It is unusual among trophies to include winning members names, every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, initially a new band added each year, though this caused the trophy to grow in size, earning the nickname Stovepipe Cup. In 1958 the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. To prevent the Stanley Cup from growing, when the band is full, the oldest band is removed and preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanleys Cup, The Holy Grail, the Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 100 times by 18 active NHL teams, prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine different teams. The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win the cup, the Stanley Cup was not awarded in 1919 because of a Spanish flu epidemic, and in 2005, as a consequence of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11,1888, he, Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreals 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club. The Montreal Gazette reported that he expressed his delight with the game of hockey
13.
Queen's Golden Gaels
–
The Queens Gaels are the athletic teams that represent Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Team colours are blue, red, and gold and its main home is Richardson Memorial Stadium on West Campus. Their rallying cry is the Oil Thigh, a song sung in Gaelic by spectators when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown. The song has the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Queens teams have had a variety of successes on the national and international stages over the universitys history. Mens and Womens Volleyball won OUA Championships in 2012, the name caught on and became the familiar term for Queens teams by the 1950s. Gaels is a reference to Queens Scottish heritage, before 1947, Queens teams were commonly known as The Tricolour. In September 2008, Queens Athletics & Recreation Department began referring to the teams as Queens Gaels. Along with this change, the website was changed from goldengaels. com to gogaelsgo. com, the change was reportedly made to highlight the universitys name in promoting the team, however some have criticised the move as change for the sake of change. Queens University Varsity Baseball Team started competing in the Ontario University Athletics circuit as of 2010, painted on the walls of the Varsity locker room is the word Success followed by the phrase the harder you work, the luckier you get. Queens hosted McGill University at the Kingston YMCA on February 6,1904, McGill won 9-7, after a ten-minute overtime period to break a 7-7 tie. The mens curling team, in 2010, earned the medal at the CIS national championship in Edmonton. The team led by First Team All-Canadian Jonathan Beuk went 5-1 in Round Robin play before beating the Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final, the Gaels qualified for the 2011 World University Games in Erzurum, Turkey where they represented Canada. The team finished fifth after losing a match to the Czech Republic. The Queens Gaels football program is one of the longest-lived and storied in U Sports, the team began organized play in 1883 when the Ontario Rugby Football Union was first founded and won ORFU champions in 1893 and 1894. Queens has competed continuously since 1882, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2007, the football squad showed continued success, winning three straight Grey Cups in 1922,1923 and 1924. Queens hockey is one of the oldest hockey clubs in the world, only McGill Universitys team, Queens played its first season in 1883-84, with the first game for which records exist played against a team from Petawawa. In the 1890s, Queens played in the Ontario Hockey Association, as Ontario champion, the Queens hockey team was a regular in Stanley Cup Challenge Games by challenging in 1895,1899 and 1906. Queens donated the Queens Cup for annual Ontario University Athletics competition in 1898, in 1902, the Intercollegiate Hockey Union was formed and the Gaels won the title in 1904 and 1906
14.
Toronto Marlboros
–
The Toronto Marlborough Athletic Club, commonly known as the Toronto Marlboros, was founded in 1903. It operated an ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association. The Marlboros were a team to the Toronto Maple Leafs and one of the dominant junior teams in history. Their heritage has been resumed under the present-day Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, the Toronto Marlborough Athletic Club was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1903 by a group of Toronto sportsmen. It was named after the Duke of Marlborough, a hockey program was started in 1904. The team was known as the Marlboros or Marlies and was also nicknamed the Dukes. In the early years, the Marlboros were just one of many clubs and junior hockey teams in. The senior ice hockey team competed for, but lost, the Stanley Cup in 1904 against the Ottawa Silver Seven, from 1927 to 1989 the Marlboros and Maple Leafs shared common ownership, first under the Smythe family and later under Harold Ballard. Upon the death of Conn Smythe, his son Stafford Smythe inherited the teams, Ballard became sole owner of both teams upon the passing of Stafford Smythe. During this time the Marlboros sent over 180 players to the NHL, the two teams often played double headers on Saturdays, with the junior games in the afternoon and the NHL games in the evening. The original Hot Stove Club was formed at Maple Leaf Gardens on May 28,1937, the Hot Stove Club was given a permanent bar & lounge at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1963. From 1929 to 1975 the Marlboros won the junior championship seven times. Marlboro players from the Memorial Cups in the 1950s and 1960s jumped directly to the Maple Leafs, former NHL stars stayed in the organization to help coach in the junior ranks. Turk Broda and George Armstrong both coached the Marlboros to Memorial Cup victories, Stafford Smythe organized the Metro Junior A League in 1961 as a rival league to the OHA, with the Marlboros as its charter member. The 1964 Marlboros were one of the strongest teams in Canadian junior history, the Marlboros returned to prominence again in 1973, coached by former Toronto Maple Leafs captain George Armstrong. Armstrongs team in 1973 lost only seven games all season, the team began to decline in the standings in the late 1970s which continued through the 1980s. Many people felt that Harold Ballards penny-pinching ways helped contribute to the demise of Canadas most successful junior team, the Leafs retained the rights to the Marlies name. The OHL team moved to Hamilton for the 1989-90 season, becoming the Dukes of Hamilton and they were not financially successful in Hamilton, though, and after only two seasons the Dukes became the Guelph Storm
15.
Allan Cup
–
The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montague Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, the current champions are the Bentley Generals of Alberta, who captured the 2016 Allan Cup in Steinbach, Manitoba. In 1908, a split occurred in the competition of ice hockey in Canada, the top amateur teams left the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, which allowed professionals, to form the new Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union, a purely amateur league. The trustees of the Stanley Cup decided that the Cup would be awarded to the professional ice champion, the Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to the amateur champions of Canada. It was to be ruled like the Stanley Cup had, passed by champion to champion by league championship or challenge. Three trustees were named to administer the trophy, Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Bank of Montreal, Dr. H. B. Yates of McGill University, and Graham Drinkwater, four-time Stanley Cup champion. The trophy was presented to the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, members of the IPAHU. The first IPAHU champion, and by extension, first winner of the Cup was the Ottawa Cliffsides hockey club, after the season, the Cliffsides were defeated in the first-ever challenge by the Queen’s University hockey club of Kingston, Ontario. In the early years, trustees of the Cup quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of organizing a competition in so large a country. In 1914, at the suggestion of one of the trustees, Claude Robinson, one of the CAHAs first decisions, in 1915, was to replace the challenge system with a series of national playoffs. Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and this was discontinued in the 1960s with the introduction of the Canadian national team. In 1928 the trustees turned over responsibility for the Cup to the CAHA, by 1951, many senior teams had become semi-professional or professional. In 1951, the CAHA set up a league of competition from the semi-pro. The leagues would no longer compete for the Allan Cup, the Allan Cup would be competed for on a more purely amateur basis from teams in smaller centres of Canada. The major league concept broke up by 1953, and the Alexander Cup competition was retired after 1954, since 1984 the Allan Cup has been competed for by teams in the Senior AAA category. Although interest in ice hockey has diminished over its history. The Cup championship is determined in a tournament held in the city or town of a host team. The Cup has been won by teams from every province and from the Yukon, the city with the most Allan Cup championships is Thunder Bay with 10, including four won as Port Arthur before the citys amalgamation
16.
Ontario Professional Hockey League
–
The Ontario Professional Hockey League, sometimes referred to as the Trolley League, and also known as the Canadian Hockey League in its time, was a professional ice hockey league in Canada. It was a professional league and consisted of teams from Toronto. The leagues annual champion would challenge for the Stanley Cup, the Ontario Professional Hockey League was organized in November 1907. The Toronto Professionals had been playing games against teams of the International Professional Hockey League. In early November 1907, the International League had folded, reducing the number of opponents for Toronto, at the annual meeting of the Toronto team on November 7, the first discussions of a possible league were held. A founding meeting was held in Berlin, Ontario on November 12 where a league was formed with Berlin, Brantford, Guelph, the leagues initial name was the Canadian Hockey League and the officers were, J. P. Downey, M. P. P. Guelph, Hon. President, Alex Mine, Toronto, President A. B, burnley, Brantford, Vice-President N. E. Irving, Guelph, Secretary Otto Vogelsang, Berlin, Treasurer J. C. Palmer, Toronto, George Roehmer, Berlin, J. A. Fitzgerald, Guelph and Roy Brown, the rules would be based on the Ontario Hockey Association and the International League. Representatives of Galt had shown interest in being a part of the league, in the 1908 off-season, Brantford left the league and was replaced by Galt and St. Catharines. Galt would win the OPHL championship and Galt challenged for the Stanley Cup in January 1909, after the 1909 season, Guelph, St. Catharines and Toronto left the league. In 1910 the OPHL added the Waterloo Colts to become a four-team league, Berlin got off to such a strong start in the season, that the league decided to start a new season in later January. In March 1910, Berlin challenged the Wanderers for the Cup and were defeated, the leagues final attempt to win the Cup came a year later in March 1911, with Galt again losing to Ottawa, which now played in the National Hockey Association. The league disbanded after the 1911 season, the OPHL teams were raided for players by the NHA after the NHA was itself raided for players by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Players who left included Eddie Oatman, Jack McDonald and Goldie Prodgers, the Moncton Victorias of the Maritime Professional Hockey League signed nearly all of the champion Galt teams players. The Victorias would win the MPHL championship and challenge NHA champion Quebec, a namesake league would play for one season in 1930–31 with teams in Galt, Guelph, Kitchener, Niagara Falls, Oshawa and Stratford. † Guelph and St. Catharines withdrew after six games of the schedule, List of pre-NHL seasons List of ice hockey leagues Coleman, Charles L. The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol.1, 1893–1926 inc
17.
Memorial Cup
–
The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League champion. Sixty teams are eligible to compete for the Memorial Cup, representing nine provinces, the London Knights are the current champions, defeating the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 3-2 in overtime. The Memorial Cup is often regarded as one of the toughest trophies to win, due to 60 teams participating, the trophy was originally known as the OHA Memorial Cup and was donated by the Ontario Hockey Association in 1919 to be awarded to the junior champion of Canada. When the trophy was created, it was dedicated in honour of the soldiers who died fighting for Canada in the war and it was rededicated during the 2010 tournament to honour all soldiers who died fighting for Canada in any conflict. Often referred to as the ‘Father of Hockey’, Captain Liam G. Carr is the man responsible for the Memorial Cup, the well-traveled Kingston shoe salesman was a great hockey booster and administrator, championing his hometown of Kingston as the birthplace of hockey. George T. Richardson, was killed in action in 1916, the idea for the Memorial Cup was born. The Ontario Hockey Association’s annual meeting was unanimous that a memorial be established to members of the OHA who had fallen on the field of war. The cup, coveted prize of Canadian junior hockey, was the brainchild of Capt, jim when he was overseas in the Great War and at the time, President of the Ontario Hockey Association. George T. Richardson*, who died in France, Feb.9,1916, --William J. Walshe, Comments on Sport, The Kingston Whig-Standard, Jan. It started as an East-versus-West format, where the George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions from the East would play the Abbott Cup champions from the West, in 1929, the Memorial Cup Final became a best-of-three series. From 1937 the Memorial Cup was a series, and in 1943 reverted to a best-of-seven series. From 1972 to 1973 these three played a single round-robin, with the top two teams advancing to a single-game final. A semi-final game was added in 1974, in 1977 the tournament was expanded to a double round-robin, with no semi-final. The tournament was held at a site which was rotated among the three leagues. The 1983 Memorial Cup tournament saw the inclusion of a team, the team hosting the event. The first tournament under this format was held in Portland, Oregon, the host Winter Hawks also won the Cup that year, becoming the first American team to win the Memorial Cup. The four teams played a single round-robin, the site of the tournament continued to be rotated between the three leagues. This is the format that continues to be used today, if the host team also wins its respective league championship, the Memorial Cup berth reserved for the league champion is instead awarded to that leagues runner-up
18.
Hockey Canada
–
Hockey Canada controls a majority of ice hockey in Canada. There are some exceptions, such as the Canadian Hockey League and U Sports who partner with Hockey Canada. Hockey Canada is based in Calgary, Alberta with an office in Ottawa, Ontario and regional centres in Toronto, Ontario and Montreal. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association was founded on December 4,1914, the organization was made to oversee the amateur level of the sport at the national level. The Allan Cup, originally donated in 1908 by Sir H. Montague Allan, was selected as the championship of amateur hockey in Canada. William Northey, the trustee of the Allan Cup, was named the first ever chairman, the Memorial Cup was the junior amateur championship of Canada. In 1920, after the Winnipeg Falcons won the Allan Cup over the University of Toronto, Canada would go 3-0-0 to win the sports first ever Olympic gold medal. The Ottawa and District Amateur Hockey Association joined in 1920, followed by the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association in 1928 and that same year, the International Ice Hockey Federation changes the rules on amateur status. The rule change means the 1948 Allan Cup champion Royal Montreal Hockey Club were not eligible for the 1948 Winter Olympics, at the 1952 Winter Olympics, the Edmonton Mercuries won their nations last Olympic gold until 2002. In 1961, the Trail Smoke Eaters won Canadas 19th and last world championship for 33 years at the 1961 World Ice Hockey Championships. In 1964, Father David Bauer formed the Canadas national team in response to the success of the set up by the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia. Three years later, the CAHA opened its first ever national office, the Newfoundland Amateur Hockey Association, led by association president Don Johnson, entered the CAHA in 1966. Johnson would become CAHA president in 1975, the New Brunswick Amateur Hockey Association left the Maritime AHA brand in 1968 and entered the CAHA as a member. In 1968, the Hockey Canada organization was founded to oversee Canadas national teams, in 1970, the CAHAs 13 Junior A league were divided into two tiers. Tier I, the Western Canada Junior Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey Association, the ten leagues of Tier II, would compete for the Manitoba Centennial Cup, donated by the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association. In 1972, Canada and the Soviet Union competed in the 1972 Summit Series, Canadas team was composed of NHL stars, while the Soviet players were from the Red Army. The NHLers won the series 4-3-1, two years later, the World Hockey Association represented Canada and lost the series 4-1-3. In 1976, the Canada Cup was formed as a best-on-best championship, in 1974, the Nova Scotia Amateur Hockey Association and Prince Edward Island Amateur Hockey Association are formed out of the dissolution of the Maritime AHA
19.
Canadian Hockey League
–
The Canadian Hockey League is an umbrella organization that represents the three Canadian-based major junior ice hockey leagues for players 16 to 20 years of age. For the 2016-17 season, its three leagues and 60 teams represent nine Canadian provinces as well as four American states. The CHL schedule culminates in the Memorial Cup tournament, which each of the three league champions, as well as a host team, play a round-robin tournament to determine a national champion. The Canadian Hockey League is the body for Major Junior hockey. The CHL currently oversees the Western Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League, each league plays individual regular season schedules, and playoffs. The annual CHL championship is determined by the Memorial Cup tournament held in May, if a CHL player does not sign a professional contract, many also opt to play for Canadian Interuniversity Sport and go to school due to CHL sponsored scholarship programs. The CHL also seeks to raise the profile of the game by hosting annual events such as the Memorial Cup, the CHL Top Prospects Game. The organization also provides scholarships and bursaries for its players who exemplify extraordinary efforts. These programs are supported by the corporate sponsors. The Memorial Cup Tournament is the championship of Junior Canadian hockey, each year it features the champions from the and the host CHL team. The host team changes from year to year, and is selected by a bidding process prior to the start of each season. The annual event is one of the biggest sporting events in North America, attracting thousands of spectators, masterCard is the official sponsor of the championship. Each draft prospect hopes to boost their draft ranking with the NHL scouts, the players are typically coached by a pair of hockey celebrities, usually Don Cherry and Bobby Orr. The event has been held annually since 1992, from 1992 to 1995 the event was known as the CHL All-Star Challenge and usually pitted one of the CHLs leagues against the other two. The CHL hosts annually, the Subway Super Series, sponsored by Subway to showcase Canadian junior talent versus Russian junior talent, picks are chosen in reverse order of the teams standings in the CHL. The import draft is seen as a way to raise the level of competition in the CHL, for the 2016–17 season the league comprises 60 teams located in nine Canadian provinces and four American states. Currently, nine of the ten Canadian provinces have a member team, newfoundland and Labrador is the only province without a team. The Western Hockey League, with 22 teams in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Washington, the Ontario Hockey League, with 20 teams in Ontario, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
20.
OHA Senior A Hockey League
–
The OHA Senior A Hockey League was a top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in Ontario from 1975 until 1987. The league was sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, in 1972, the Western Ontario Senior B Hockey League was formed. Members of this included the Bothwell Barons, Durham Huskies, Lucan-Ilderton Jets, London Kings, Preston Jesters. In 1973, the changed its name to the Continental Senior B Hockey League. In 1975, two later the league became the Continental Senior A Hockey League, making the league eligible for the Allan Cup. The Chatham Maroons, New Hamburg Screaming Eagles, Petrolia Squires, after the 1978-79 season, the original OHA Senior A Hockey League folded and its top team, the Cambridge Hornets, salvaged itself by joining the Continental Senior league. The Continental league stood alone as the top league in Ontario, a season later, the league was rebranded the OHA Senior A Hockey League. In 1983, the OHA Senior A Hockey League absorbed the Major Intermediate A Hockey League, in 1986, the league shrunk down to three teams, added Hockey Northwestern Ontarios Thunder Bay Twins as a fourth team, and then folded after the season. The OHA Senior A league spawned four Allan Cup champions from 1979 until 1987, the final season was finished off in style, as the league champion Brantford Motts Clamatos went on to win the Allan Cup as National Senior A Champions. The league was replaced in 1990 by the Southwestern Senior A Hockey League which is now known as Major League Hockey, Champions 1979, Petrolia Squires defeated Steinbach Huskies 4-games-to-11981, Petrolia Squires defeated St. Boniface Mohawks 5-1 score 1983, Cambridge Hornets defeated St. In 1971-72, the Jets pulled out of the Southern Counties Intermediate B league in favour of running an independent schedule, Durham had won the Provincial Intermediate B championship in 1968 and 1969, as well as a local title in 1971. The Jets won the Provincial title in 1970 and the playoff title in 1972. The Jets had made wind about challenging for the Allan Cup in 1972, the Western Senior B league was virtually built around the Huskies and Jets and the two teams dominated the first four years of its existence. The one common denominator between the two teams was their need to squash the Stratford Perths in the final each year. In 1973, the Jets won the first ever title by defeating Stratford 4-games-to-none. A year later, the became the Centinental Senior B league. In 1975, the Lucan-Ilderton Jets won again by defeating Stratford 4-games-to-1, after this, the OHA allowed the Jets to challenge for an Allan Cup spot, but they were squashed by the Barrie Flyers 4-games-to-none. The Huskies got the last laugh in the battle, in 1975, the league was promoted to Senior A and the Huskies won the leagues first ever championship at that level
21.
Georgetown Raiders Sr. A
–
The Georgetown Raiders were an ice hockey team from Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. They competed in the OHA Senior A and Intermediate A ranks in the 1970s and 1980s, the Raiders won the W. G. Hardy Trophy, also known as the Hardy Cup, as the Canadian Intermediate A champions in 1982. They are not known to be connected to another Georgetown Raiders team which is currently a member of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League, Georgetown was an entry in the Niagara District Intermediate A Hockey League, which folded in 1979. Georgetown was one of two teams from that loop to be accepted into the Georgian Bay Intermediate A league, with which the Niagara league had played an interlocking schedule, the league changed its name to the Major Intermediate A Hockey League in 1980. The Raiders played four years in the Georgian Bay/Major league and finished in first place three times, in 1982, the Raiders became the first OHA team to ever win the Hardy Cup. Only two Ontario teams ever one it, the other being the Dundas Real McCoys in 1986, the Hardy Cup was the Senior AA/Intermediate A National Championship. The Major Intermediate A league folded in 1983, Georgetown was one of three teams accepted into the OHA Senior A league. Its fate after this point is not known
22.
Dundas Real McCoys
–
The Dundas Real McCoys are a Senior AAA ice hockey team based out of Dundas, Ontario. They play in the Ontario Hockey Associations Major League Hockey, the Real McCoys have won two National Championships, winning the 1986 Hardy Cup as Canadian Senior AA Champions and hosting and winning the 2014 Allan Cup as Canadian Senior AAA Champions. The Real McCoys were once members of the Major Intermediate A Hockey League as the Dundas Merchants, in 1986, the Real McCoys were the last Ontario Hockey Association team to win the Hardy Cup as National Senior AA/Intermediate A Champions. Only two OHA teams ever won this award, the other was the Georgetown Raiders, the Real McCoys played one year independent after the OHA Sr. League folded in 1987. After faltering in the first round of the playoffs in 1988. In 2000, the Real McCoys were resurrected in Major League Hockey and have played ever since
23.
Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League
–
The Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League is a Canadian developmental Junior ice hockey league. The GMHL is not affiliated with the Canadian Junior Hockey League or a member by Hockey Canada, the league has teams in the Greater Toronto Area, Central Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, and Quebec. As of September 2006, it clear that the league would operate its first season with seven teams. The original seven were the Bradford Rattlers, Deseronto Thunder, King Wild, Nipissing Alouettes, Richmond Hill Rams, South Muskoka Shield, the leagues first ever game took place on September 8,2006 between the King Wild and the Richmond Hill Rams. The final result was a 6-0 victory for the Rams, despite being badly outshot by the Wild, the first goal in the leagues history was scored by the Rams Darren Archibald on the power play during the first period. Rams goaltender Daniel Jones picked up the historical first victory, as well as the leagues first shutout in history, on November 15,2006, the GMJHL announced its affiliation with the World Hockey Association and creation of the National Junior Hockey Alliance. The affiliation resulted in a championship between the GMJHL playoff champion and the winner of the WHA Junior West Hockey League after the 2006–07 season. In the playoffs, the Rattlers beat the Deseronto Thunder in six games, in September 2007, the GMJHL started its second season with six new teams, the Douro Dukes, Elliot Lake Bobcats, Espanola Kings, Innisfil Lakers, Tamworth Cyclones, and Temiscaming Royals. The Deseronto Thunder ran into trouble after their first season. The team is now known as the Deseronto Storm, on December 11,2007, the GMJHL announced a seven-game challenge series versus a Russian team known as the Moscow Selects. In late December and early January, the top seven teams of the GMJHL will compete against the Moscow Selects—a mixture of top Top Junior talent from the City of Moscow. The Selects played seven games, against Bradford, Innisfil, Temiscaming, Elliot Lake, Richmond Hill, Deseronto, in March 2008, the King Wild and Richmond Hill Rams played two games each against the Mexico national ice hockey team. The Wild won both their games, while the Rams lost both of theirs, for the 2008–09 season, the GMJHL adopted much of the National Collegiate Athletic Associations ice hockey rulebook. The GMJHL added the Minden Riverkings and the Oro-Medonte 77s to the mix, at the same time, the Quebec-based Temiscaming Royals walked away from the league to join the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, but were replaced within weeks by the Ville-Marie Dragons. In December 2008 and January 2009, eight teams of the GMHL hosted Kazakhstans Under-18 Torpedo UST-Kamenogorsk squad, victorious were the Elliot Lake Bobcats, South Muskoka Shield, King Wild, Bradford Rattlers, Innisfil Lakers, and a Nipissing/Ville-Marie combined squad. The only loss for a GMHL team happened to the Toronto Canada Moose, in the summer of 2010, the GMHL expanded in two fashions internationally. First, Canadas only All-Russian team in the Shelburne Red Wings, in December 2010, the GMHL named Bob Bernstein commissioner. After serving as commissioner for seven days, Bernstein was relieved of his duties and this is the first known regulation outdoor game in Ontario in the modern era
24.
Western Ontario Athletic Association
–
The WOAA Senior Hockey League has been around since 1948. The WOAA controls these sports, Senior Hockey, Womens Hockey, Minor Hockey, the WOAA also actively trains officials for these sports. The WOAAs jurisdiction over local Senior Hockey has lasted since the 1948-1949 season but the association was established in 1942 by W. T. Cruickshank of Wingham. The WOAA became a body on July 24,1986 under the Ontario Corporations Act. These are the member towns as agreed to by the Ontario Minor Hockey Association. These centres are governed by the WOAA, but the WOAA works under the OMHA, the WOAA is responsible for its own tournaments, disciplinary system, and playoffs, but must provide the accounts of these actions to the OMHA. WOAA Senior Hockey League Western Ontario Athletic Association Website WOAA Senior Hockey Website
25.
WOAA Senior AA Hockey League
–
The WOAA Senior AA Hockey League is a Canadian senior ice hockey league governed by the Western Ontario Athletic Association. The league operates in Southwestern Ontario, the league uses Hockey Canada playing rules but is not operated under the jurisdictions of the Ontario Hockey Association or Hockey Canada. The league is based in the Georgian Triangle and Southwestern Ontario, the league is rather large and features teams of both Senior AA and Senior A calibre. It is generally accepted that none of these teams could compete with the Senior AAA teams that compete for the Allan Cup. The league is divided into two division that do not interlock until the playoffs, the WOAA consists of 17 teams, compared to the next biggest Ontario league, Major League Hockey, which has 5. From 1969 until 1977, the WOAAs premier division was an Intermediate B hockey league, the league was divided into as many as five divisions, Int. C, and Major and Minor Int, the teams from the Major Int. C loop dominated the WOAA in terms of Grand Championships, winning 5 of 8, the most dominant teams were Mount Forest and Milverton. From 1977 until 1991, the WOAA promoted itself to the Intermediate A level, clements Saints, Teeswater Falcons, Lucknow Lancers, Kincardine Kings, Dundalk Flyers, Monkton Wildcats, Mitchell Red Devils, and Tara Cyclones. In 1991, they came to grip with the times and dropped the Intermediate moniker, in the 1980s, many teams jumped between the WOAA and the Ontario Hockey Association Senior leagues that attempted to operate in the area. This era ended in 1994 with the death of the WOAA Grand Championship, the final champions were the Durham Thundercats, who took it for the third straight year in 1994. From 1977 until 1994, the WOAA was dominated early on by Lions Head and Woodford and later on by Brussels and Durham. With the collapse of Ontario Hockey Association Senior hockey, the WOAA made the move to declare itself one level below Allan Cup competition with the Senior AA moniker in 1994. The league consolidated itself into one league with different tiers of playoff championships, AA, A. The Durham Thundercats proved to be the team to beat early on, going back to the 1991–92 season, the Thundercats won 9 league championships in 15 years, including 6 out of 7 from the 1991–92 season until 1998. In 1995, the Tavistock Royals won the first ever WOAA Senior AA championship by taking the Durham Thundercats to seven games, the Thundercats avenged the loss by winning the next three Senior AA crowns. As time went on, the Milverton Four Wheel Drives reemerged as a powerhouse in the WOAA, dominating the league in 1999,2000, and 2002. The Palmerston 81s and Elora Rocks also emerged as dominant forces later in the decade along with Tavistock as the Thundercats stranglehold on the league has loosened
26.
Lanark County
–
Lanark County is a county located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its county seat is Perth, which was first settled in 1816, most European settlements of the county began in 1816, when Drummond, Beckwith and Bathurst townships were named and initially surveyed. The first farm north of the Rideau was cleared and settled somewhat earlier, the county took its name from the town of Lanark in Scotland. Nearly all the townships were named after British public and military figures from the era of early settlement, the county is located in the sub-region of Southern Ontario named Eastern Ontario. Geologically, the part of the county is in the Canadian Shield. The county has two rivers, the Mississippi and Rideau, each of which empty into the Ottawa River. The landscape is varied including Canadian Shield as well as plains, with a variety of tills, sands. At the time of settlement, most of the county was covered in deciduous forest. Some of the ridges in the west of the county were likely once natural fire barrens, with a distinctive fauna. The clearance of forests began with settlement, at which time one of the important exports from the area was potash. The natural diversity of the landscape supports over 1200 species of plants in the county flora, the county also has 47 provincially significant wetlands. Some of the largest are Blueberry Marsh, the Innisville Wetlands, in addition to David Whites list of 17 areas of plant diversity, Paul Keddy lists 17 special places in the county. Both lists have the Burnt Lands Alvar, the Christie Lake Barrens, keddys list adds areas such as Playfairville Rapids, Lavant/Darling Spillway and the Carleton Place Hackberry stand. Also of interest is an old shoreline which crosses the county diagonally, approximately from Almonte in the northeast to Perth in the southwest. This shoreline was formed about 12,000 years ago near the end of the last ice age when much of the Ottawa Valley was inundated by the Champlain Sea, many areas below this old shoreline are flat clay plains, with occasional outcrops of gneiss or limestone ridges. Some of the distinctive southern animals in the county include five-lined skinks, black rat snakes, unusual southern plants include the Arrow arum, a nationally rare wetland plant found near Mississippi Lake. Cliff Bennett provides a list of 26 routes for canoe and kayak exploration of the county. Historic populations, Population in 2001,62,495 Population in 1996,59,845 As of the census of 2001, there were 62,495 people,23,905 households, the population density was 21 per square kilometre
27.
Renfrew County
–
Renfrew is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. There are 17 municipalities in the county, the seat of county government is in Pembroke, a city that is politically independent of the county. In 2006, the county – along with Pembroke – was represented at the Canadian House of Commons as part of the riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, Renfrew County is known for its lakeside cottages and white-water rafting along the Ottawa River, and has more than 900 lakes. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named Eastern Ontario, Renfrew County is also the largest county in terms of area in Ontario, ahead of Hastings County. At Wilno, Ontario Canadas Kashubian community celebrates their heritage, the county is home to CFB Petawawa and gives its name to The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment
28.
United Counties of Leeds and Grenville
–
The United Counties were formed by the administrative union of the historical counties of Leeds and Grenville in 1850. The figures below are for the Leeds and Grenville census division, which combines the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville with Brockville, Gananoque and Prescott. Historic populations, Population in 2001,96,606 Population in 1996,96,284 Ethnic make-up,97. 3% White 1. 2% Aboriginal 1. 5% other William Buell granted the land for construction of the Courthouse. It is set atop a hill rising from the Saint Lawrence River, a broad boulevard extends to the main street. The Brockville Courthouse, one of the oldest in Ontario, was erected in 1842, the original plan had been to build a courthouse in the township of Johnstown but the land there was too swampy for construction. Instead, the Courthouse was built in the township of Elizabethtown, the figure of Justice, a blind-folded woman holding the scales of justice, was carved by master carpenter William Holmes in 1844. This statue was named Sally Grant by Paul Glasford, the chair of the building committee, however, the statue was damaged by Hurricane Hazel and by 1956, the statue was rotting. The original statue is on display at the Westport museum, a replica carved by Robert Kerr of Smiths Falls was placed atop the Courthouse in 1982. List of municipalities in Ontario List of townships in Ontario Media related to Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario at Wikimedia Commons The Recorder & Times - official website BrockNews. ca
29.
Gananoque
–
Gananoque is a town in the Leeds and Grenville area of Ontario, Canada. The Gananoque River flows through the town and the St. Lawrence River serves as the boundary of the town. The towns name is a name which means town on two rivers. The towns name rhymes with the place name Cataraqui, which appears in the Cataraqui River, the Little Cataraqui Creek, one way to remember its pronunciation is The right way, the wrong way, and the Gananoque. In eastern Ontario speech, the name is often abbreviated to Gan. Colonel Joel Stone, who served with Loyalist militia during the American Revolutionary War, land was granted to Col. Stone for use as a mill site. During the War of 1812, American forces raided the government depot in the town to disrupt the flow of British supplies between Kingston and Montreal, the stores seized consisted of half an ox, a few straw ticks, and a few blankets. The raiders seized the supplies they found and burned the depot, mrs. Stone reportedly protected her jewels from the invaders by hiding them in the flour at the mill. Within a month of the construction of the Gananoque Blockhouse was started. It had an octagonal log parapet containing five guns, the blockhouse was abandoned after the War of 1812 and given to a private landowner. Gananoque lies directly on three of Canadas busiest transportation routes, the four-lane Highway 401, the double-track Canadian National Railway main line, and it is also home to a rich provincial highway heritage, being home to the remaining stretch of Highway 2. It is the terminus of the Thousand Islands Parkway, and a short drive from the Thousand Islands Bridge. Gananoque is served by the Gananoque Airport for general aviation, in 1830, water was diverted near Newboro to the Cataraqui River as part of the Rideau Canal, sending this traffic instead to Kingston. A four-mile short line railroad once linked the main CN Rail tracks to the heart of the village, the Thousand Islands Railway terminated near the town hall. The current Chief of Police is Garry E. Harry W. Gananoque is referred to as the Gateway to the Thousand Islands, which lie next to it in the St. Lawrence River. The theatre company in Gananoque is The Thousand Islands Playhouse which operates two theatre spaces, The Springer Theatre, and the Firehall Theatre, attracting international attention since 1982. Town of Gananoque Town of Gananoque community web portal Ontarios Official Ultimate Fishing Town 1000 Islands Heritage Museum InGananoque OurGananoque, Mobile Friendly Business Directory
30.
Northwestern Ontario
–
Northwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario and its western boundary is the Canadian province of Manitoba, which disputed Ontarios claim to the western part of the region. Ontarios right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884, for some purposes, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario are treated as separate regions, while for other purposes they are grouped together as Northern Ontario. Northwestern Ontario consists of the districts of Kenora, Rainy River and Thunder Bay, major communities in the region include Thunder Bay, Kenora, Dryden, Fort Frances, Sioux Lookout, Greenstone, Red Lake, Marathon, and Atikokan. There are also several dozen First Nations in Northwestern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario is divided between the Eastern Time Zone and the Central Time Zone. Northwestern Ontario is the provinces most sparsely populated region —54 per cent of the entire population lives in the Thunder Bay census metropolitan area alone. Aside from the city of Thunder Bay, Kenora is the other municipality in the entire region with a population of greater than 10,000 people. Northwestern Ontarians tend to lean left politically, mainly due to the history and influence of unions, a growing environmental ethic. At the federal level, Northwestern Ontario is represented by Liberal MPs Bob Nault in the Kenora District, Don Rusnak in Thunder Bay—Rainy River, provincially, NDP Sarah Campbell represents Kenora—Rainy River while Liberals Bill Mauro and Michael Gravelle represent Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Superior North respectively. In 2005, some residents of the region expressed dissatisfaction at the level of attention paid to the region by the provincial government, Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History
31.
Sutherland Cup
–
The Sutherland Cup is the ice hockey Ontario Junior B Provincial Championship trophy. The Sutherland Cup is now the championship trophy of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, until 2007, the Cup served as an interleague provincial championship. From 1976 until 1978, as many as eight leagues competed for the Sutherland Cup in a massive structure that took months to complete. k. a. Southwestern Junior B Hockey League 1973–1974 a. k. a, lost in conference final, but advanced based on superior record over the other two conference finalists
32.
Bramalea Blues
–
The Bramalea Blues were a Junior A ice hockey team from Bramalea, Ontario, Canada. Their final two seasons were played in Brampton, Ontario at the Powerade Centre and they were a part of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League but also used to be a part of the Metro Junior A Hockey League. They joined the OPJHL in 1995, in 2010 the Blues took a buyout offer from their league to cease operations. Formed in 1972, the Blues joined the Metro Junior B league, the Metro had just been curtailed by the Ontario Hockey Association as the many of their top teams were moved to the newly created OHA Junior A league. The Blues won the Sutherland Cup in 1975 as OHA Junior B Champions and was one of the top Junior B teams in Ontario for almost two decades winning league titles in 1974,1975,1985, and 1988, in 1991, the Metro league went Junior A. The team stayed with the Metro until 1995 when an exodus of teams made the jump to the OPJHL. In 1999, the Blues won the Buckland Cup as league champions and they fell short at the Royal Bank Cup. In the 1990s, the Blues had an agreement of affiliation with the South-Central Triple A Hockey Leagues local Chinguacousy Blues minor hockey club. The Blues opened up the Royal Bank Cup 1999 with a 4-2 victory over the British Columbia Hockey Leagues Vernon Vipers—the Doyle Cup Champions, the Blues then took out the Anavet Cup Champions, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Leagues Estevan Bruins 4-3. The Blues then beat the host Yorkton Terriers by a score of 5-1, the Blues had already clinched first place in the round robin and floated through a 5-1 loss to the Fred Page Cup Champion Charlottetown Abbies of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. The slack effort did not pay off, the Blues entered the Semi-final as the favourite to win the Royal Bank Cup, but were upset by the Vernon Vipers by a score of 3-2. The Vipers went on to win the Cup, and the favourite Blues were left with a long and unhappy ride home from Yorkton, in 1978 the Bramalea Blues won the 1978 Ontario Winter Games hockey competition in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The final game was played against the Streetsville Derbys and the score was 3-2. This Ontario Winter Games gold medal win qualified the Bramalea Blues to represent Ontario for the 1979 Canada Winter Games in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. At the 1979 Canada Winter Games the Bramalea Blues, representing Team Ontario, won the bronze medal, after the Royal Bank Cup upset loss to the Vernon Vipers, the Blues played like a team jinxed. With only one winning season in the last seven, the Blues were never the same, despite initial optimism, at the halfway point of the 2006-07 season the Blues are sitting at a dismal 1 win,23 losses, and an overtime loss. As of November 18, the Blues are in the basement of the OPJHL and are in danger of missing the playoffs again, on January 18,2007, the Blues, with a 1-38-1-2 record, were officially eliminated from any chance of making the playoffs. The final blow came with the Orangeville Crushers defeating the surging Newmarket Hurricanes which pushed the Crushers out of reach in the wildcard race, the Blues finished the season in last place and with one of the worst records in Tier II Junior A history
33.
Metro Junior A Hockey League
–
This article is about the league in operation from 1956-1998. For the Metro Junior Hockey League from 1961-1963 see, Metro Junior A League The Metro Junior A Hockey League was a junior ice hockey league based out of Southern Ontario. The league originated in 1956 as the Metro Junior B Hockey League, which lasted until 1991, a league from 1991 until 1998 when it was absorbed by the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. The teams that formed the Metropolitan league played in the Big Six Junior B league in 1950 until 1953, the league officially took on the Metropolitan Toronto junior hockey league name in 1956. For some time, was a part of the Ontario Hockey Association, as the name suggests, the league originally consisted of Junior B teams in the Toronto area. However, over time, with the defection of teams to the Junior A league, the league featured many future NHL stars, including Brad Park, Wayne Gretzky, Eric Lindros, Dale Hawerchuk, Ken Dryden, and Curtis Joseph. During the early years, the Junior B league was essentially the minor league feeder for the Junior A Ontario Hockey Association, almost all of the Metro players eventually moved on to play in the OHA. Following the NCAAs 1980 rule change that deemed any OHL players to be professionals, the Metro league became a key feeder to college hockey programs during the 1980s and 1990s, producing more than 200 future NCAA players. For the most part, the served as farm teams at the Junior B level for the Junior A OHA teams. The 1964-65 season starred a 17-year-old Ken Dryden in net for the Etobicoke Indians, with Dryden in net, the Indians won the Metro league title and made it all the way to the Sutherland Cup final where they lost 4-games-to-2 to the Kitchener Greenshirts. Ken Dryden moved on to one of the most famous NHL goaltenders of all-time. He played in the 1972 Summit Series, won the 1971 Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP a season before he was officially a rookie, he won six Stanley Cups, and is a Hockey Hall of Fameer. In 1972 the Metro B league was reshaped substantially when six members left to join the new Ontario Provincial Junior A league, Metro members Ajax Steelers, Aurora Tigers, Dixie Beehives, Downsview Bees, North York Rangers, and the Richmond Hill Rams left. A year later the Markham Waxers also left, the Etobicoke Selects, Toronto Red Wings, and Markham Royalls joined in 1973. The Kingston Voyageurs entered the league in 1974, in 1974, the Metro Champion Bramalea Blues defeated the Owen Sound Greys 4-games-to-3 to reach the Sutherland Cup All-Ontario Final. Due to the brawl, the Blues withdrew from the final, the 1975 season marked the first junior appearance by a 14-year-old underage Wayne Gretzky for the Toronto Nationals. In September, Walter Gretzky had Wayne moved to the City of Vaughan to play hockey for the Toronto Young Nats instead of playing in his hometown of Brantford. In October, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association declared Gretzky and 15-year-old Brian Rorabek ineligible because they had established residency too late, Gretzky sued in the Canadian Courts and lost
34.
Markham Royals
–
The Markham Royals are a Junior A ice hockey team from Markham, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League, from 1973 until 2015, the team operated in Hamilton, Ontario as the Kiltys and the Red Wings. The Red Wings were founded in 1973 as the second Hamilton-based team in the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League, after one season, the league divided into two leagues and the Red Wings went the way of the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League. In 1975-76, the other Hamilton team joined the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League, the draw of a local Junior A club weakened the team and they took a one year leave a season later. In 1977, under new ownership the team came back as the Kiltys, although a very competitive team, it took the Kiltys until 1992-93 to win a Golden Horseshoe championship. With that win, the Kiltys were promoted to the newly formed Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League with a variety of other Junior B squads, outside of some brief troubles in the late 1990s, the Hamilton franchise has been very successful in regular season play in the OJHL. The team was renamed the Hamilton Red Wings in 2002 and continues to field competitive teams season after season. The Red Wings moved to Markham, Ontario and became the Markham Royals, Markham has been without an OJHL franchise since 2012. The club also acquired the rights for Waxers Junior A, and has chosen to play as the Markham Royals. 1974, Hamilton Red Wings defeated Bramalea Blues by forfeit Marty McSorley Keith Primeau Pat Quinn Jeff Reese Zac Rinaldo Gary Roberts Steve Staios Zac Rinaldo Cam Talbot Zach Hyman Royals Webpage
35.
Niagara District Junior B Hockey League
–
The Niagara District Junior B Hockey League was a Canadian Junior ice hockey league in the Golden Horseshoe of Ontario from 1954 until 1979. The league was a part of the Ontario Hockey Association of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and was eligible for the Sutherland Cup, the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League was founded in 1957. In 1974, many teams in the area broke off and formed the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League, the Niagara District League survived until 1979, when it was divided between the Golden Horseshoe League and the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League
36.
Hamilton, Ontario
–
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Residents of the old city are known as Hamiltonians, since 1981, the metropolitan area has been listed as the ninth largest in Canada and the third largest in Ontario. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, McMaster University is ranked 4th in Canada and 94th in the world by Times Higher Education Rankings 2015-16 and has a well-known medical school. Possibly because of its environment, numerous TV and film productions have been filmed in Hamilton, regulated by the Hamilton Film. A growing arts and culture community garnered media attention in 2006 when the Globe and Mail published an article called Go West, the article highlighted local art galleries, recording studios and independent film production. In pre-colonial times, the Neutral Indians used much of the land but were driven out by the Five Nations who were allied with the British against the Huron. A member of the Iroquois Confederacy provided the route and name for Mohawk Road, which originally included King Street in the lower city. In 1784, about 10,000 United Empire Loyalists settled in Upper Canada, chiefly in Niagara, around the Bay of Quinte, and along the St. Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal. They were soon followed by many more Americans, some of not so much ardent loyalists but attracted nonetheless by the availability of inexpensive. At the same time, large numbers of Iroquois loyal to Britain arrived from the United States and were settled on reserves west of Lake Ontario. The town of Hamilton was conceived by George Hamilton, when he purchased farm holdings of James Durand, nathaniel Hughson, a property owner to the north, cooperated with George Hamilton to prepare a proposal for a courthouse and jail on Hamiltons property. Hamilton offered the land to the crown for the future site, Durand was empowered by Hughson and Hamilton to sell property holdings which later became the site of the town. As he had instructed, Durand circulated the offers at York during a session of the Legislative Assembly. Initially, this town was not the most important centre of the Gore District, a permanent jail was not constructed until 1832 when a cut-stone design was completed on one of the two squares created in 1816, Princes Square. Subsequently, the first police board and the limits were defined by statute on February 13,1833. Official City status was achieved on June 9,1846, by an act of Parliament,9 Victoria Chapter 73, the city had several interurban electric street railways and two inclines, all powered by the Cataract Power Co. Though suffering through the Hamilton Street Railway strike of 1906, with industrial businesses expanding, allan Skyway in 1958, and the first Tim Hortons store in 1964. Since then, many of the industries have moved or shut down operations and the economy has shifted more toward the service sector, such as transportation, education
37.
Owen Sound Greys
–
The Owen Sound Greys were a series of Canadian junior ice hockey teams based in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Mid-Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, the original Greys, in their early years, won the 1924 and 1927 Memorial Cups as Dominion Junior Hockey Champions. The Greys were controversially moved to Brampton, Ontario in the summer of 2012 after years of financial trouble, the Greys had survived in three different forms over the years. The Original Greys lasted from 1913 until 1977, winning two Memorial Cups and folding in the ashes of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. The Intermediate Greys lasted from 1978 until 1982 in an effort to obtain the Hardy Cup, the final team was the Modern Greys, who began in 1973 as a Junior D club and worked its way up to winning the Ontario Junior A Hockey League Championship in 1987. From 1987 until 2012 the Greys played in the Mid-Western League/Conference of OHA Junior B until being relocated to Brampton, the Salvagemen had been formed in 1973 as a Junior C team. Initially they were members of the Northern Junior D Hockey League but were separated from that group come playoff time, Owen Sound endured a five-week layoff between the end of the regular season and the start of what were called the Super C playoffs. The Super C Champion would be awarded the George S. Dudley Trophy, the Salvagemen finally met the Woodstock Navy-Vets but were swept 4-0. The next season saw the Salvagemen in a true Junior C group and they finished sixth and last in the regular season, then began the Super C playoffs, which appear to have been established for teams with larger population bases. Owen Sound was in an eight-game round-robin with London and the Brantford Gunners, the Salvagemen, Owen Sound met Woodstock in the final once again but fared no better, falling in four straight. When the Junior B Greys jumped to Junior A, the Salvagemen took their place in the Mid-Ontario Junior B league and they finished sixth in 1975-76 and were swept by Orillia in the first playoff round. They placed fifth and out of the playoffs the next year, a name change to the Kings didnt help, as they again wound up fifth and on the sidelines in 1977-78. The Mid-Ontario loop was wound down at this time and the Kings were placed in the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League, the other four teams went to the new Central league. The Owen Sound Kings changed names again in 1980, becoming the Owen Sound Rutherford Mercurys, the Mercurys organization merged with that of the Greys in 1983, leaving one top-level hockey team in Owen Sound for the first time in 15 years. The new entity retained the name Greys and played two seasons in the Midwestern league. The Greys made another out of Junior B, stepping up to the Ontario Junior Hockey League in 1985. They also won the Frank L, every year previously, the OHA champion had prevailed. But Nickel Centre ended the streak, upsetting the Greys 4-2 in a best-of-seven series, the OJHL folded after the season, for the second time in a decade, Owen Sound was left hanging by the collapse of its Tier II Junior A league
38.
Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League
–
The Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League was a Junior B ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario. They were sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and competed for the All-Ontario Junior B title, additional Junior C teams such as the Oakville Blades, Hespeller Shamrocks and Milton Flyers joined in 1970. Other members were the Barrie Colts and the Oak Ridges Dynes, the Owen Sound Greys made the jump to the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League in 1975 after 3 straight Mid-Ontario titles. In 1976, they were followed into the Southern Ontario A by the Collingwood Blues, in 1978, a weakened Mid-Ontario league folded and the Orillia Terriers, Thornhill Thunderbirds, the Barrie Colts, and Oak Ridges Dynes joined the Central League
39.
Streetsville Derbys
–
The Streetsville Derbys were a Canadian Junior A ice hockey team from Streetsville, Ontario, Canada. They were a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League in 2011 when they merged into the Cobourg Cougars, the Derbys began in 1967 as part of the Suburban Jr. In 1970, they joined the new Mid-Ontario Jr, B league, and the following season the team joined the Central Jr. The team was renamed the Mississauga Derbys for the 1992-93 season. Streetsville claimed the Central Junior B Championship in 1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1983,1984 and 1986, the Derbys were the hosts of the Royal Bank Cup 2006, the National Junior A Championship. At the end of the 2007 season, it was announced that the Derbys would be moving to a new location, Westwood Arena in Rexdale and it is unknown if there will be an applicable name change. In 1986, the Ontario Hockey Association, concerned with growing violence in hockey, suspended the Streetsville Derbys, the suspension of the Derbys had to do with a stick-swinging incident in the final game of the league quarter-final against the Nobleton Devils. A Nobleton player was struck in the back of the head with a two-hand slash, the Streetsville Derbys were chosen by the Canadian Junior A Hockey League to host the 2006 Royal Bank Cup. Instead of playing the games in an arena, the Derbys ownership elected to use the larger, neighbouring Powerade Centre in the rival town of Brampton. As they moved the event to the town of Brampton. Streetsville finished first in the round robin, only to bow out with a 2-1 loss to the Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in the semi-final, in March 2011, the Streetsville Derbys merged into the Cobourg Cougars and ceased to exist as members of the OJHL. 1977, Stratford Cullitons defeated Streetsville Derbys 4-games-to-21978, Stratford Cullitons defeated Streetsville Derbys 9-points-to-51979, Streetsville Derbys defeated St
40.
Brantford Eagles
–
The Brantford Eagles were a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. They played in the Mid-Western Conference of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, on May 23,2012, the Eagles were transplanted to Caledonia, Ontario, and renamed the Caledonia Corvairs, the name of the long-running Junior C team in the town. In 1967, the Brantford Majors were a member of the Niagara Junior B League, in 1968, a second Brantford team, by the name of the Foresters, joined the renegade Western Junior B League. The Foresters absorbed by the Majors in 1970 when the Majors joined the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League, in 1973, the Diamond Kings entered the Southwestern Junior B League. In 1974, a junior team was created in Brantford at the C level. When the Kings folded, the Penguins jumped up to Junior B to take their place, the Brantford Junior B franchise spent most of their early days in the Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League. The Penguins originated in the Central Junior C Hockey League before jumping to the Southwestern Ontario Junior B before taking their place, as well, in the GHJHL. In 1986, the Ontario Hockey Association, concerned with elevating violence in the game, banned the Brantford Classics, since 1987 the Brantford Eagles in one way or another have stayed the course with the Midwestern B. Despite various name changes and a couple minor moves, the Eagles have been a member of the league for almost 20 years. Rob Blake Chris Gratton Brent Gretzky Adam Mair Adam Munro Paul Szczechura Official website
41.
Brampton Capitals
–
The Brampton Capitals were a Junior A ice hockey team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. They were a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League, the team was decommissioned by the league, in March 2012. The team was formed as Nobleton Capitals in 1984 and later as the Etobicoke Capitals, since moving to Brampton in 1989, the Capitals have been one of the more dominant teams in the OPJHL. With three league titles, the Capitals have never moved on to the Dudley Hewitt Cup, in 2000, the Capitals won their second league title, 4-games-to-2 over the Lindsay Muskies. In 2002, Brampton won their third Buckland Trophy 4-games-to-2 against the Wellington Dukes
42.
Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League
–
The Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League was a Junior C ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The Champion of the Western will compete for the All-Ontario Championship, the WOJCHL merged into the Provincial Junior Hockey League in the Summer of 2016. In 1970, the Western league changed its name to the Central league, a couple years later, another league from the old Central league, the Intercounty Jr. C league merged with the new Central league, brought into the fold was the Caledonia Corvairs who won the league and the Clarence Schmalz Cup in 1973, then jumped to the Junior B level. In 1969, the Hanover Hurricanes made the jump from the Western Junior D Hockey League to the Central Junior C, early powerhouses in the league were the Listowel Cyclones, Kincardine Kinucks, and New Hamburg Hahns. The Hanover Barons are the remaining team that is still a member from the founding of the league in 1966. They won two Clarence Schmalz Cups while playing in the league and dominated in the 1960s and they were promoted to Junior B in 1977. The league became one of at least four different leagues in the OHA to be known as the Central Jr, the league may have changed it name in 1970 to the Grey-Bruce Junior C Hockey League. This lasted until 1988, as the league granted expansion to 2 teams that were not in Grey or Bruce County -- in 1987, the Mount Forest Patriots and in 1989, in 1988, the league donned its present name, the Western Junior C Hockey League. From 1972 until 1976, the Central league featured a variety of teams from the Niagara region of Ontario, in 1974, the majority of these teams broke away to form the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League. During the 2004-05 season, the WJCHL played a schedule with the Georgian Mid-Ontario Junior C Hockey League. The WJCHL lost the series with 44 losses,32 victories and this marks the second time the Hawks have been in the loop, the first being the mid-1960s. Also, they share the name as the Walkerton Hawks, although Walkertons name is from the raptor. In 2012, the OHA entered into talks with the Western League, if successful, the northern half of the SOJHL would become the Southern Division of the WOJCHL, while the original teams would form a Northern Division. In the Summer of 2013, the OHA opted to realign the SOJHL with the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League instead, the northern half of the SOJHL remained the SOJHL, while the southern half merged with the NDJCHL. Weeks later the OHA announced that the Eastern Division of the NDJCHL would remain as the Niagara League, while the West would break off, for the Ontario Hockey Association All-Ontario Jr. C Championship, please go to the Clarence Schmalz Cup, a Red Row indicates a team representing the league in the Super Jr. C Playdowns without being the league champion
