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conference of

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. It has been awarded since 1903 to the champion between

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and

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universities. It is the second-oldest ice hockey trophy still being awarded, after the

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. The QUAA (now named the ) ceased to operate a university hockey league after the 1986–87 season. The conference's three remaining teams at that point (

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, and

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) joined, and remain, in the OUA conference. One of the conditions of the merger was the Queen's Cup, representing the OUA champion, must be challenged for at an OUA institution as such, when the OUA-East champion hosts such a game and that school is based in Quebec, the game is hosted by the OUA-West team, while the OUA-East team has 'home' standing (last change).

History

For the 1902–03 season,

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founded the Canadian Intercollegiate Hockey Union. The Queen's Cup, emblematic of the CIHU championship was donated by Queen's University of

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. The Queen's Cup was not presented during the war years of 1915–16, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, nor 1944–45. The first winner other than the founders was the

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in 1949. By the 1960s, other universities, including

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(Guelph), McMaster, Waterloo and Western were granted membership and became eligible to win the Cup. Other universities have since joined the CIHU, now known as the OUA conference. The original Cup was retired in 2000 to the

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. The 2021 championship was cancelled due to the

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Playoff era

Three Division format

Bolded are Queen's Cup champions, ''italicized'' are runner-up, score is championship game only.

East vs. West format

Bolded are Queen's Cup champions. Source: McGill University, OUA

Championships by team

The

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have won the most OUA championships with 41, including a record 11 consecutively between the 1914-15 to 1928-29 seasons.

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