The Baltimore Clippers are 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 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 based in Baltimore

Baltimore, Ontario

Baltimore is a hamlet located in the southeast portion of Hamilton Township in Northumberland County in central Ontario, just north of the town of Cobourg...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, 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...

. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

's Major League Hockey

Major League Hockey

Allan Cup Hockey is the top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in the province of Ontario. As a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, the league contends for the famed Allan Cup. The league came to its latest incarnation when it lost several teams leaving it with two...

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The Frankford Huskies joined the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League

Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League

The Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League, or EOSHL, was a top Senior ice hockey league in Eastern Ontario. The league was governed by the Ontario Hockey Association, but was merged into the Major Hockey League in 2008.-History:...

 in 2004. They were named after their old junior hockey club that played in the Quinte-St. Lawrence Junior C Hockey League for many years. The relocated Baltimore Clippers were named after the long time American Hockey League team previously located in Baltimore, Maryland.

After four years in the EOSHL, the remaining four EOSHL teams merged with the two remaining Westerm senior teams to form the new Ontario Major Hockey "AAA" League to be known as Major League Hockey.