The Brandon Wheat Kings are a Canadian Major Junior hockey team from Brandon, Manitoba. They are members of the Western Hockey League (WHL), and a part of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) and Hockey Canada. The Wheat Kings joined the Western Canada Junior Hockey League, front runner of the Western Hockey League, for the 1967-68 season. Prior to that they played in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, except for two seasons in the mid-1960s when they played in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. The team was known as the Brandon Elks for a short time in the late 1930s and again in the late 1940’s.. They won 8 Turnbull Cup Championships as Manitoba Junior Champions, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1960, 1962, 1963, & 1964 and appeared in the Memorial Cup five times: in 1949 (as an MJHL team), 1979