Membertou Jr. Miners
CityMembertou, Nova Scotia, Canada
LeagueNova Scotia Junior Hockey League
DivisionSid Rowe
Foundedc. 1932
Home arenaMembertou Sport and Wellness Center
ColoursBlack, Red and White
     
Owner(s)Kameron Coal
General managerRyan Boutillier
Head coachRyan Boutillier
Franchise history
c. 1932-1992Sydney Millionaires
1992-1996Cape Breton Jr. Mills
1996-2005Cape Breton Alpines
2005-2007Whitney Pier Canadians
2007-2010Cape Breton Canadians
2010-2016Glace Bay Jr. Miners
2016-2021Kameron Jr. Miners
2021-presentMembertou Jr. Miners

The Membertou 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.

History

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.

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 Don Johnson Cup, where they went undefeated, beating the New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League's Richibucto Bears 7-5, the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League's Windsor Royals 5-4 in double overtime, and the Island Junior Hockey League'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 Don Johnson Cup final to New Brunswick's Woodstock Slammers 4-1.

In 2005, with a sponsorship from Molson Breweries, the team moved to Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia and became the Whitney Pier Canadians. In 2007, they moved to Dominion, Nova Scotia and became the Cape Breton Canadians.

In the summer of 2010, the Canadians were moved to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 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

SeasonGPWLTOTLGFGAPResultsPlayoffs
1950-51191540-13375301st CBJHLWon League, lost Provincial
1951-52241491-11284292nd CBJHLLost final
1952-532411121-104115232nd CBJHLLost final
1953-55Statistics Not Available
1955-56201451-13192291st CBJHLLost final
1956-75Statistics Not Available
1975-763422120-249187441st EJAHLWon League
1976-77362673-----551st EJAHLWon League
1977-783014151-----293rd EJAHLLost semi-final
1978-793014160-----283rd EJAHLLost semi-final
1979-803216133-----352nd EJAHLLost semi-final
1980-85Statistics Not Available
1985-86303261-12324174th NJBHL
1986-92Statistics Not Available
1992-9325111202136126243rd NSJBHL
1993-94271214-1149140254th NSJBHL
1994-95321414-4156177323rd NSJBHL
1995-9634191212178140404th NSJBHL
1996-9731217-3202117453rd NSJBHLWon League, won DJC
1997-9832161411152126344th NSJBHL
1998-993121901174113432nd NSJBHL
1999-003223900208113462nd NSJBHLWon League
2000-013423920212107484th NSJBHL
2001-023422822172125484th NSJBHL
2002-03322821117687581st NSJBHL
2003-04322182114397453rd NSJBHL
2004-0532111713120157267th NSJBHL
2005-063462413134236169th NSJBHL
2006-07Did Not Participate
2007-083342900123248810th NSJHLdid not qualify
2008-0934161800117158328th NSJHLLost quarter-finals, 0-4 (Blues)
2009-1034529001032161010th NSJHLdid not qualify
2010-11341020-4108191244th / 5 Sid Rowe Div
9th / 11 NSJHL
Lost div semi-final, 2-4 (Pirates)
2011-12331615-2140132343rd / 5 Sid Rowe Div
7th / 11 NSJHL
Lost div semi-final, 0-4 (Bulldogs)
2012-1334255-416595541st / 5 Sid Rowe Div
1st / 11 NSJHL
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)
Lost Div Final, 1-4 (Pirates)
2013-1434274-317592571st / 5 Sid Rowe Div
1st / 11 NSJHL
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)
Won Div Final, 4-0 (Pirates)
Lost LEAGUE Finals, 3-4 (Blazers)
2014-15342747--1918 3541st / 5 Sid Rowe Div
1st / 11 NSJHL
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)
Won Div. Finals 4-1, (Scotians)
Won League Finals, 4-0 (Maple Leafs)
NSJHL League Champions
SeasonGPWOTW/SOWT/OTLLGFGAPResultsPlayoffs
2015-163422236--731st of 5 Sid Rowe
1st of 11 NSJH'L
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Blues)
Won Div Final, 4-2 (Scotians)
Lost League Finals, 0-4 (Maple Leafs)
Kameron Jr. Miners
2016-17342115714994701st of 5 Sid Rowe
1st of 11 NSJH
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates)
Lost Div. Finals, 3-4 (Scotians)
2017-183426-2615793541st of 5 Sid Rowe
2nd of 11 NSJH
Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates)
Won Div. Finals, 4-1 (Bulldogs)
Won League Finals 4-0 (Penguins)

NSJHL League Champions
2018-193220-57170108452nd of 6 Sid Rowe
4th of 12 NSJH
Won Div Semifinal, 4-1 (Scotians)
Lost Div. Finals, 0-4 (Pirates)
2019-203224-25184197511st of 12 NSJHWon Div Semifinal, 4-2 (Maple Leafs)
remaining playoffs cancelled - covid
2020-2153-20261151 8Season lost due to COVID-19 pandemic
Membertou Jr. Miners
2021-221911-358158253rd of 6 Sid Rowe
4th of 12 NSJH
Won Div Quarterfinal, 3-0 (Blues)
Won Div. Semiinals, 4-2 (Pirates)
Lost Div. Finals, 2-4 (Bulldogs)
2022-2330123114135114285th of 6 Sid Rowe
10th of 12 NSJH
did not qualify for post season play

Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Eastern Canada Jr B Championships

YearRound RobinRecordStandingSemifinalBr. Med. GameGold Medal Game
2015W, St. John's -Nfld 5-1
L, Moncton - NB 1-4
OTW, Tyne Valley - PEI 5-4
W, Kensington - PEI 2-0
3-1-02nd of 5W, Kensington - PEI-1-0n/aL, Moncton - NB 1-4
2018
HOST
OTW, East Hants Penguins 5-4
W, Moncton Vito's 4-3
W, Western Red Wings 3-0
W, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 6-1
4-0-01ST of 5W, East Hants Penguins 5-2n/aWon, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 4-1
Don Johnson Memorial
Cup Champions
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