The Membertou Junior Miners are a Canadian Junior

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club from

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. They are members of the

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and are 1989 and 1997

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Maritime Junior B champions and 1976 and 1977 Eastern League Junior A Champions. The team was located in

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up until 2005.

History

First observed in the 1932-33 Cape Breton Junior Hockey League, the Sydney Millionaires (named after an earlier

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) would win their league title in 1933, 1951, 1964, and 1965. In the 1950s they dabbled with other names like the "Steel Kings" and the "Bombers" as their sponsors changed, but they always came back to the Millionaires. In the 1970s, the Millionaires joined the Eastern Junior B Hockey League. In 1975, the league became the

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. The Millionaires won the league in 1976 by defeating the Glace Bay Miners 4-games-to-1 and the New Waterford Jets 4-games-to-none in the final. They moved on to the Eastern Canada

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semi-final where they lost 4-games-to-1 to the

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. The Millionaires repeated as champions in 1977 defeating the New Waterford Jets 4-games-to-none and then the Glace Bay Miners 4-games-to-2 in the final. In the Eastern Canada Junior A quarter-final, the Millionaires defeated the Newfoundland Champion

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4-games-to-none. In the semi-final, the Mills ran into PEI's

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and were themselves swept 4-games-to-none from the playoffs. In the 1980s, the Millionaires dropped down to Junior B in the Northumberland Junior B Hockey League. They were league and Provincial Junior B Champions in 1988, 1989, and 1990. In the 1989, at the Maritime Junior B

, the Millionaires would win their first Maritime Junior B Championship. In 1992, their league merged with the Mainland Junior B Hockey League and Mills became the Cape Breton Jr. Mills. In 1996, the Mills became the Cape Breton Alpines. They would win the 1997 league title and move on to the Maritime Junior B Championship, the

, where they went undefeated, beating the

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7-5, the

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5-4 in double overtime, and the

's Sherwood-Parkdale Kings 8-4. In the final, the Alpines faced Windsor again, clinching their second Maritime Jr. B Championship with a 5-2 win at their home rink. They would win another league title in 2000, but lost the

final to

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4-1. In 2005, with a sponsorship from

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, the team moved to

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and became the Whitney Pier Canadians. In 2007, they moved to

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and became the Cape Breton Canadians. In the summer of 2010, the Canadians were moved to

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, Sydney's territorial rival, and renamed after their old nemesis the Glace Bay Jr. Miners. In 2016 they renamed themselves as the Kameron Jr. Moners and rebranded again in 2021 as Membertou Jr. Miners.

Season-by-season record

Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Eastern Canada Jr B Championships

External links

Jr. Miners Website
{{Nova Scotia Sports Ice hockey teams in Nova Scotia Sport in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality