of the CAHA. Nova Scotian lawyer Hanson Dowell served four years as president of the MAHA from 1936 to 1940, and became the first person from Atlantic Canada to be elected president of the CAHA in 1945. The MAHA, the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association, and the Ottawa and District Amateur Hockey Association, worked together on a proposal in 1941 to establish an Eastern Canada Hockey Association; where they would oversee the Eastern Canada playoffs to determine one team to play against the Ontario champion, and alleviate their financial struggles by sharing the profits from the gate receipts among themselves before the CAHA took its portion. At the CAHA general meeting in 1942, travel expenses were increased to teams during the playoffs, instead of forming the proposed Eastern Canada Hockey Association. The CAHA proposed for the Newfoundland Amateur Hockey Association to join the MAHA in 1951, but Newfoundland declined and later became its own branch of the CAHA. New Brunswick first attempted to become a separate branch of the CAHA in 1953. A second attempt was made in 1967, and after a trial run of one year as its own association, the New Brunswick Amateur Hockey Association separated from the MAHA and became its own branch of the CAHA in 1968. The Maritime Junior A Hockey League was founded in 1968, to bring the highest level of Canadian junior hockey to the Maritimes. It operated until 1971 when junior hockey was reorganized in Canada, and the league was downgraded to Junior B status. The MAHA ceased to exist when the Nova Scotia Hockey Association was granted branch status in the CAHA in 1974, and then the Prince Edward Island Hockey Association was formed and also granted branch status in the CAHA. Notes Sources References Canadian Amateur Hockey Association branches Ice hockey governing bodies in Canada Ice hockey in New Brunswick Ice hockey in Nova Scotia Ice hockey in Prince Edward Island Sports governing bodies in New Brunswick Sports governing bodies in Nova Scotia Sports organizations established in 1928 Sports organizations disestablished in 1974