High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2004 IIHF World Women`s Championships were held March 30-April 6, 2004 in Halifax and Dartmouth, Canada. The Canadian national women`s hockey team won their eighth straight World Championships. The event had 9 teams, because the 2003 event was cancelled due to the SARS epidemic, therefore the winners of the 2002 and 2003 Division I tournaments qualified.