Kingston Frontenacs (EPHL)
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- For the current OHL Kingston Frontenacs team, see Kingston Frontenacs.
The Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL) were a minor professional team affiliated with the NHL's Boston Bruins. The team played from 1959 until 1963, winning the EPHL regular season championship in 1962-63. When the EPHL folded in 1963, the franchise was transferred to the new Central Hockey League as the Minneapolis Bruins.
The "Frontenacs" name has a long history in Kingston, and is in refrerence to Louis de Buade de Frontenac, governor of New France who established Fort Frontenac on the site of present-day Kingston. Kingston is also the seat of Frontenac County.
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