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The Wanderers were involved in the formation of the NHA.

After the 1908 season, the Wanderers had been sold to P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink who now made plans to move the club from the Montreal Arena to the smaller Jubilee for the 1910 season.

This upset the other members of the ECHA, who would receive a smaller share of the proceeds from games played in the Wanderers rink.

The other ECHA members suspended the ECHA and set up the Canadian Hockey Association league and rejected the application of the Wanderers to join.

The Wanderers ' representative at the meeting, Jimmy Gardner met Ambrose O ' Brien in the ground floor of the hotel where the league was meeting.

Gardner suggested to O ' Brien, who had been rejected in his application for the Renfrew Creamery Kings to join the ECHA, that they form a new league, including the Wanderers, Renfrew and the Cobalt and Haileybury teams that O ' Brien owned.

O ' Brien agreed and on December 4, 1909 the NHA was founded.

Later in January 1910, the CHA folded and Ottawa and Montreal Shamrocks joined the NHA.