the qmjhl was created in 1969 from two different junior leagues in quebec, the quebec junior hockey league and the metropolitan montreal junior hockey league. these two teams wanted to make a better junior league for the province, so combined teams from their leagues. eight teams were from the qjhl and two from the mmjhl and another team came from a town in ontario on the ontario-quebec border. nearly every team was within a close distance of montreal, the largest city in quebec, though no team played in montreal.