The Big Six Hockey League, is a senior men's hockey league founded in December of 1959. The is based out of the southeastern portion of Saskatchewan A previous league with the same name played from 1944 to 1955 in the Battleford-North Battleford area, Saskatchewan. The years that i have found are 1944, 1945, and 1954. The teams that played are Battleford 1944-1945, Legion (1945), Marymount, (1945) North Battleford- Beaver Kinsmen (1944-1945), North Battleforde-Collegaite Institute (1944), North Battleford-SFTS (1944-1945), North Battleford-St Thomas More (1944-1945) and North Battleford-Services (1944). Theses teams played in 1955 and they are Battleford, Gaslyn, Lashburn, Maidestone, Meadow Lake, Neilburg, North Battleford-St Thomas More, Turtleford and Vawn-Edam.