History
In 1967, the most southern teams of the Shamrock Junior D Hockey League formed their own loop and named it the Bluewater Junior Hockey League. With an interlock setup with the teams of the Michigan Junior Hockey League, the league changed its name a season later to the Border Cities Junior Hockey League. In 1970, the interlock was dropped and the league became the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League, a mixture of local Junior B and C teams. In 1974, the league became exclusively a Junior C league and has been ever since.
Since the Junior C designation in 1974, the league has been thoroughly dominated by the Essex 73's with 16 championships and the Belle River Canadiens with 13. As a league, since 1967, the loop has won 14 Clarence Schmalz Cups as Provincial Junior C Champions.
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