The Nickel Belt League was an amateur ice hockey league in and around Sudbury, Ontario. It was comprised, at various times, of senior, intermediate, Junior "A", and Junior "B" teams - and sometimes of more than one level in the same season. Sudbury was formed in th 1880's around the richest nickel deposits in the world. Yet its position in Northern Ontario was very isolated from the population centers in te rest of Ontario. Travel was very long and expensive to other towns.