The New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League was a Junior ice hockey

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 league in New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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, Canada

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, sanctioned by Hockey Canada

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. The winner of the playoffs competed in the Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships

Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships

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.

History

Dating back to at least the early 1950s, the NBJHL was an elite Maritime

Maritimes

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 league. In 1983, the league was in competition with two local American Hockey League

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 teams and folded.

The NBJBHL was forged from the synergy of five regional New Brunswick Jr. B leagues after the demise of the NBJHL, but it folded in 2003.

In 2003, the league NBJHL was the primary Jr. league in New Brunswick, a Jr. C league. Starting in 2007, the League was allowed to send its top team to the Don Johnson Cup

Don Johnson Cup

The Don Johnson Cup is the Junior "B" ice hockey championship for the Atlantic Provinces of Canada -- Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island....

 as a Jr. B representative. In 2009, the league failed to send their champion.

In 2009, a group of teams fled the NBJHL to form their own Jr. B league, the New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League

New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League

The New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League is a Canadian Junior ice hockey league in the Province of New Brunswick. The NBJBHL is a member of Hockey New Brunswick and competes for the Don Johnson Cup at the interprovincial level. The league was founded in 2009.-History:In 2003, the original New...

, leaving the NBJHL with 6 teams and as a Jr. C League.

In the Summer of 2011, all but Hampton folded. The league ceased operations and the Hurricanes moved up to Junior B.

The teams

Team	Centre
Dieppe/Memramcook Voyageurs	Dieppe Dieppe, New Brunswick Dieppe is a Canadian city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.-Geography:Dieppe is located on the Petitcodiac River east of the adjacent city of Moncton...
Hampton Hurricanes	Hampton Hampton, New Brunswick Hampton is a Canadian town in Kings County, New Brunswick.Located on the Kennebecasis River 30 kilometres northeast of Saint John, Hampton is the shire town of Kings County...
Richibucto Bears Richibucto Bears Richibucto Bears were a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Richibucto, New Brunswick. The Bears played in the New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League and New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League and were the 1999 Don Johnson Cup Maritime Junior B Champions....	Richibucto Richibucto, New Brunswick Richibucto is a Canadian town in Kent County, New Brunswick.The town is situated on the Richibucto River where it discharges into the Northumberland Strait. The town takes its name from a Mi'kmaq term meaning "river of fire"....
Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators	Shediac Shediac, New Brunswick Shediac is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Situated on Shediac Bay, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait, the town calls itself the "Lobster Capital of the World" and hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing; the largest lobster...

Champions

2011 Kent Centre Jr. Bears

2010 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators

2009 Hampton Hurricanes

2008 Jr. B Dieppe-Memramcook Voyageurs - Jr. C Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators

2007 Dieppe-Memramcook Voyageurs

2006 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators

2005 Kent-Sud Flames

2004 Dieppe-Memramcook Avalanche