The Halifax Crescents were an early amateur and later, professional

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team operating in Halifax,

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, Canada. The team operated in several leagues, gone defunct and been resurrected. The original club challenged for the

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in 1900. The last Crescents team in senior hockey operated in 1947–48.

Chronology

The team played in the

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from 1899 until 1910. The club was one of founders of the Inter-provincial Professional League in 1910, which became the

Maritime Professional Hockey League Maritime may refer to: Geography * Maritime Alps, a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps * Maritime Region, a region in Togo * Maritime Southeast Asia * The Maritimes, the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Princ ...

from 1911 until 1914. After the MPHL shut down, the club fielded a team again in the Halifax City League until 1925. In 1940, the Crescents name was resurrected in the HCHL league until 1946. From 1945 until 1948, a Crescents team was fielded in the

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References

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