The Thornhill Thunderbirds 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...

 Junior "B" 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 Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

. They played in the Central Junior B Hockey League.

History

The Thornhill Thunderbirds were a junior hockey team in Ontario. The team existed in two phases. The first was a Junior B team that started in the Mid-Ontario Junior B league

Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League

The Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League was a Junior "B" ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario. They were sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and competed for the All-Ontario Junior "B" title, the Sutherland Cup.-History:The league was formed...

. After the league folded in 1978, the team moved to the Central Junior B league, where it folded after the 1984 season.

A second Thornhill Thunderbirds team is now known as the Mississauga Chargers

Mississauga Chargers

The Mississauga Chargers are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League. They are the product of a 1990 merger of two former Metro Junior B franchises, the Thornhill Thunderbirds and the Markham Connection...

. Hockey returned to Thornill in 1988, when the Metro Junior B Richmond Hill Dukes moved to Thornhill again assuming the Thunderbirds nickname. In 1990 that team merged with the Markham Connection (which had been known as the Markham Travelways from 1983 until 1989), and for one year were named the Markham Thunderbirds. In 1991 they returned to their Thornhill Thunderbirds name for one season. In 1992, they moved to Mississauga.

Thornhill Thunderbirds Junior "B"

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1975-76	36	7	23	6
131	218	20	7th MOJBHL
1976-77	40	20	17	3
207	198	43	2nd MOJBHL	Lost Final
1977-78	32	14	15	3
171	196	31	3rd MOJBHL
1978-79	44	14	22	8
36	8th CJBHL
1979-80	44	14	28	2
196	263	30	10th CJBHL
1980-81	44	18	24	2
242	272	38	8th CJBHL
1981-82	40	20	16	4
226	185	44	5th CJBHL
1982-83	42	14	23	5
189	211	33	6th CJBHL
1983-84	40	9	27	4
151	244	22	9th CJBHL