The Senior Intercollegiate League was set up quickly in December, 1945, in Ontario and Quebec. It included four universities that were outside the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union - Loyola College and Sir George Williams University in Montreal, St Patrick's College in Ottawa and Laval University in Quebec City. The league was rather hurriedly set up in December, 1945. The schools had not played inter-university hockey for the last six years because of World War II.