Southern Section (MAHA)

The Southern Section was a subdivision of the Maritimes Amateur Hockey Association. It was made up usually  by most of Nova Scotia (mainland and Cape Breton Island). In many years the area between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait (Cumberland County) would often participate in the Central Section for regular season and nation tournament qualifying, usually Amherst and Oxford. This would often prevent Nova Scotia having a true provincial champion at many levels of play. This was due to the fact that New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island were members of the MAHA without their own provincial governing body. This would start to change in the late 1960's when New Brunswick withdrew from the MAHA and formed the New Brunswick Amateur Hockey Association which quickly lead to the establishment of associations in the other two provinces (Hockey Nova Scotia & Hockey PEI). .