Their inaugural season, 1920–21, had the Durham Hockey Club competing against Markdale, Owen Sound, and Wiarton in OHA Group 14 of the Intermediate division.

The season would end with the Club earning their historic first victory but still finishing last tied with Owen Sound.

The club was dominant, but a reporter from the town's local paper, The Chronicle, felt the team was missing a name.

Possibly by mistake, near the end of the 1952 playoff run, The Chronicle ran an article calling the club the "Huskies".

[citation needed] The Huskies won the 1974 title by defeating the Stratford Perths 4-games-to-2 in the league and provincial final.

Two years later, the Huskies advanced past their league championship to compete in the Allan Cup playdowns for the first time in their history.

[citation needed] The Huskies were defeated by the Barrie Flyers 4-games-to-none in the J. Ross Robertson Cup series for the Ontario Hockey Association title.

President of the Huskies, Steve Morris, claimed that the paying of players under the table was the biggest problem and why they had to get out.

For the first time, the Huskies would compete for the Hardy Cup and the league was fairly local with some teams as close as the Owen Sound Greys and Collingwood Shipbuilders.

In 1983, the Huskies jumped down to the even more local Northern Intermediate B Hockey League with neighbouring franchises like the Shelburne Muskies, Tavistock Royals, Kincardine Kings, and Port Elgin Suns.

The Huskies would find their niche, winning three straight league titles and the 1985 Paxton Cup as OHA Champions.

That final season, most of the rival teams had fled to the WOAA Senior Hockey League for more local governance and better regulated refereeing, leaving only Durham and Shelburne to duke it out.

They also defeated the Almonte Centennials of the Ottawa District Hockey Association to win the Ontario/Quebec championship 3-games-to-1 in Durham.

Their trail would end in the Eastern Canada final, in contention for the Col. J. Bourque Trophy against the Port-aux-Basques Mariners of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Huskies put together consistently good teams, but kept failing to win their league championship in the face of the Creemore Chiefs and Elora Rocks.