The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was a major amateur senior

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league in

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that existed from 1923.

History

The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League was founded in 1923 from teams in Ontario and Quebec. It was an attempt to set up a major league in eastern Canada, which had several city amateur leagues, but no single amateur league of the top teams. The founding teams were the

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, Ottawa St. Patrick's, Ottawa Munitions,

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and Trois Rivieres. In 1924–25 teams from the

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merged into the league."Amateur hockey dates rearranged"
''The Gazette'' (Montreal). Nov. 22, 1924 (pg. 18). Retrieved 2020-11-01.

Seasons

References

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