Glace Bay Jr. Miners
| Kameron Jr. Miners | |
|---|---|
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| City | Membertou, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| League | Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League |
| Division | Sid Rowe |
| Founded | c. 1932 |
| Home arena | Membertou Sport and Wellness Center |
| Colours |
Black, Red and White |
| Owner(s) | Sonny MacDougall & Donna MacDougall |
| General manager | Sonny MacDougall |
| Head coach | Ryan MacDougall |
| Franchise history | |
| c. 1932-1992 | Sydney Millionaires |
| 1992-1996 | Cape Breton Jr. Mills |
| 1996-2005 | Cape Breton Alpines |
| 2005-2007 | Whitney Pier Canadians |
| 2007-2010 | Cape Breton Canadians |
| 2010-2016 | Glace Bay Jr. Miners |
| 2016-present | Kameron Jr. Miners |
The Kameron Junior Miners are a Canadian Junior ice hockey club from Membertou, Nova Scotia. They are members of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League and are 1989 and 1997 Don Johnson Cup Maritime Junior B champions and 1976 and 1977 Eastern League Junior A Champions. The team was located in Sydney, Nova Scotia up until 2005.
First observed in the 1932-33 Cape Breton Junior Hockey League, the Sydney Millionaires (named after an earlier professional team) 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 Eastern Junior A Hockey League. 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 Hewitt-Dudley Memorial Trophy semi-final where they lost 4-games-to-1 to the Island Junior Hockey League's Charlottetown Colonels.
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 Corner Brook Jr. Royals 4-games-to-none. In the semi-final, the Mills ran into PEI's Charlottetown Generals 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 Don Johnson Cup, 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.
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