1939-40 Maxville Millionaires Hockey Club

The Maxville Millionaires, coached by Osie Villeneuve and Clark Hoople, were assembled in 1931-32 and played their first few games in the new Jubilee Arena. With tattered sweaters and sparse equipment, the Millionaires gradually earned the famed nickname “from rags to riches”. They won the Citizen Shield, emblematic of Ottawa District Intermediate Hockey supremacy in 1936, 1938,1939, and 1940. In April 1940, the Millionaires defeated the Maritime winners who had already eliminated Quebec, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. They were then crowned Intermediate Hockey Champions of Eastern Canada.