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Founded in the 1990s, the Bears were a member of the old New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League. In 2003, the league folded and Richibucto was forced to play down in the New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League until the team folded in 2008. However, the Richibucto Bears is the name many teams from Richibucto were known as from the early 1970s. They had Jr. B Teams playing prior to the "1990s" as stated in the opening sentence. In fact the Juvenile team in 1979 won the New Brunswick Provincial title and went on to represent the province in the Atlantic Championship held in Mt Pearl NFLD. The team ended up losing in the finals to St John's, a team they had beaten earlier in the tournament.
Junior B hockey in New Brunswick collapsed in 2003. The Bears survived as members of the New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League for five seasons before folding in 2008.
In the summer of 2011, junior hockey in New Brunswick all but collapsed and the Bears again were a victim of it.
Richibucto resurrected their junior hockey presence with the Richibucto Rangers joining the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League at the Junior "B" level for the 2022-23 season. The following season the team moved to the Junior "C" level and re-branded themselves as the Elsipogtop Hawks a proud First Nations neighbor community.
