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.
In January 2026, Membertou Jr. Miners lost an 5-4 overtime game against the Pictou County Scotians in Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League action on Saturday in Coxheath.
Season-by-season record For seasons 1950 to 2015Season GP W L T OTL GF GA P Results Playoffs1950-51 19 15 4 0 - 133 75 30 1st CBJHL Won League, lost Provincial1951-52 24 14 9 1 - 112 84 29 2nd CBJHL Lost final1952-53 24 11 12 1 - 104 115 23 2nd CBJHL Lost final1953-55 Statistics Not Available1955-56 20 14 5 1 - 131 92 29 1st CBJHL Lost final1956-75 Statistics Not Available1975-76 34 22 12 0 - 249 187 44 1st EJAHL Won League1976-77 36 26 7 3 - -- -- 55 1st EJAHL Won League1977-78 30 14 15 1 - -- -- 29 3rd EJAHL Lost semi-final1978-79 30 14 16 0 - -- -- 28 3rd EJAHL Lost semi-final1979-80 32 16 13 3 - -- -- 35 2nd EJAHL Lost semi-final1980-85 Statistics Not Available1985-86 30 3 26 1 - 123 241 7 4th NJBHL 1986-92 Statistics Not Available1992-93 25 11 12 0 2 136 126 24 3rd NSJBHL 1993-94 27 12 14 - 1 149 140 25 4th NSJBHL 1994-95 32 14 14 - 4 156 177 32 3rd NSJBHL 1995-96 34 19 12 1 2 178 140 40 4th NSJBHL 1996-97 31 21 7 - 3 202 117 45 3rd NSJBHL Won League, won DJC1997-98 32 16 14 1 1 152 126 34 4th NSJBHL 1998-99 31 21 9 0 1 174 113 43 2nd NSJBHL 1999-00 32 23 9 0 0 208 113 46 2nd NSJBHL Won League2000-01 34 23 9 2 0 212 107 48 4th NSJBHL 2001-02 34 22 8 2 2 172 125 48 4th NSJBHL 2002-03 32 28 2 1 1 176 87 58 1st NSJBHL 2003-04 32 21 8 2 1 143 97 45 3rd NSJBHL 2004-05 32 11 17 1 3 120 157 26 7th NSJBHL 2005-06 34 6 24 1 3 134 236 16 9th NSJBHL 2006-07 Did Not Participate2007-08 33 4 29 0 0 123 248 8 10th NSJHL did not qualify2008-09 34 16 18 0 0 117 158 32 8th NSJHL Lost quarter-finals, 0-4 (Blues)2009-10 34 5 29 0 0 103 216 10 10th NSJHL did not qualify2010-11 34 10 20 - 4 108 191 24 4th / 5 Sid Rowe Div9th / 11 NSJHL Lost div semi-final, 2-4 (Pirates)2011-12 33 16 15 - 2 140 132 34 3rd / 5 Sid Rowe Div7th / 11 NSJHL Lost div semi-final, 0-4 (Bulldogs)2012-13 34 25 5 - 4 165 95 54 1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div1st / 11 NSJHL Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)Lost Div Final, 1-4 (Pirates)2013-14 34 27 4 - 3 175 92 57 1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div1st / 11 NSJHL Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)Won Div Final, 4-0 (Pirates)Lost LEAGUE Finals, 3-4 (Blazers)2014-15 34 27 47 - - 191 8 3 54 1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div1st / 11 NSJHL Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs)Won Div. Finals 4-1, (Scotians)Won League Finals, 4-0 (Maple Leafs)NSJHL League Champions Season GP W OTW/SOW T/OTL L GF GA P Results Playoffs2015-16 34 22 2 3 6 - - 73 1st of 5 Sid Rowe1st 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. Miners2016-17 34 21 1 5 7 149 94 70 1st of 5 Sid Rowe1st of 11 NSJH Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates)Lost Div. Finals, 3-4 (Scotians)2017-18 34 26 - 2 6 157 93 54 1st of 5 Sid Rowe2nd of 11 NSJH Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates)Won Div. Finals, 4-1 (Bulldogs)Won League Finals 4-0 (Penguins)NSJHL League Champions2018-19 32 20 - 5 7 170 108 45 2nd of 6 Sid Rowe4th of 12 NSJH Won Div Semifinal, 4-1 (Scotians)Lost Div. Finals, 0-4 (Pirates)2019-20 32 24 - 2 5 184 197 51 1st of 12 NSJH Won Div Semifinal, 4-2 (Maple Leafs)remaining playoffs cancelled - covid2020-21 5 3 - 2 0 26 11 51 8 Season lost due to COVID-19 pandemicMembertou Jr. Miners2021-22 19 11 - 3 5 81 58 25 3rd of 6 Sid Rowe4th of 12 NSJH Won Div Quarterfinal, 3-0 (Blues)Won Div. Semifinals, 4-2 (Pirates)Lost Div. Finals, 2-4 (Bulldogs)2022-23 30 12 14 3 1 135 114 28 5th of 6 Sid Rowe10th of 12 NSJH did not qualify for post season play2023-24 32 21 10 1 0 112 101 43 2nd of 6 Sid Rowe5th of 12 NSJH Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates)Lost Div Finals, 1-4 (Bulldogs)2024-25 30 12 16 2 0 96 146 26 3rd of 5 Sid Rowe7th of 11 NSJH Lost Div Semifinal, 1-4 (Scotians)
Don Johnson Memorial Cup Eastern Canada Jr B Championships
Year Round Robin Record Standing Semifinal Br. Med. Game Gold Medal Game 2015 W, St. John's -Nfld 5-1L, Moncton - NB 1-4OTW, Tyne Valley - PEI 5-4W, Kensington - PEI 2-0 3-1-0 2nd of 5 W, Kensington - PEI-1-0n/aL, Moncton - NB 1-4 2018HOST OTW, East Hants Penguins 5-4W, Moncton Vito's 4-3W, Western Red Wings 3-0W, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 6-1 4-0-0 1ST of 5 W, East Hants Penguins 5-2n/aWon, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 4-1Don Johnson Memorial Cup Champions
References
External links Jr. Miners Website