The Nelson Cubs were a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 Senior

Senior ice hockey

Senior hockey refers to amateur or semi-professional ice hockey competition for players too old to play junior ice hockey. The top senior amateur teams in Canadian leagues compete annually for the Allan Cup....

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team from Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. In 1923, they became the Nelson Kokanees. The Cubs were one-time British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

 Coy Cup

Coy Cup

-History:The trophy was donated to the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association by Colonel Coy of the 50th Gordon Highlanders of Victoria, British Columbia.The Coy Cup was first awarded to the Enderby Hockey Club in the 1922-23 season....

 Senior Champions.

History

In 1921-22 the Nelson Cubs won the Coy Cup

Coy Cup

-History:The trophy was donated to the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association by Colonel Coy of the 50th Gordon Highlanders of Victoria, British Columbia.The Coy Cup was first awarded to the Enderby Hockey Club in the 1922-23 season....

 as the Senior B Amateur Hockey Champions of British Columbia.

In the following year (1922–23), this senior men’s team won the inaugural league championship of the West Kootenay League

West Kootenay League

The West Kootenay League, also referred to as the West Kootenay Hockey League , is a defunct senior men's ice hockey league that operated in eastern British Columbia from 1922–1941, and also during the 1945-46 season...

, which at that time was the top tier senior ice hockey league operating in eastern British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. Its teams played hockey at the highest level of competition of its day.

That season the Cubs advanced to the British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

 senior hockey playoffs. They won the first three rounds of the playoffs but lost the finals series (a two-game total-goals affair) 14 goals to 4 to the Vancouver Young Liberals team.

The next season the Cubs changed their name to the Nelson Kokanees.