Glace Bay Jr . Miners The Glace Bay Jr . Miners are a Canadian Junior ice hockey club from Glace Bay , 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 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 . Don Johnson Memorial Cup . Eastern Canada Jr B Championships