Fondée à Toronto, c’est grâce à la contribution et au leadership des membres des Laurentides que l’Organisation a pu grandir ailleurs au Canada. En effet, la Zone laurentienne de la patrouille est, dès le départ, la plus dynamique des zones. Ses membres rédigent le premier manuel de soins destinés aux skieurs, ils créent le premier […]
Dès son arrivés au Canada en 1940, Per Hall skie dans les Laurentides. Par amour du sport, il fonde, avec d’autres, la Up-Hill Ltd. Il acquière alors les côtes 70 et 71 à Saint-Sauveur où l’on retrouvait déjà des installations. Il s’agissait d’un endroit favorable par sa proximité au village et par son accès facile […]
Capitaine de l’Équipe du Québec, Luc Dubois se blesse et il est contraint d’abandonner la compétition nationale et internationale en 1964. Par la suite, il devient membre du circuit universitaire en saut, ski de fond et ski alpin entre 1968 et 1970 et directeur des programmes de l’Équipe canadienne de ski alpin entre 1973 et […]
While working in Whistler, British Colombia, Michel Daigle registered himself, for fun, to a ski jump competition (distance) to which were registered some of the best jumpers at the time. To his amazement, he won the event! From 1973 to 1975, he won numerous competitions including three Canadian championships, three Provincial championships and a USA […]
The Canadian Ski Marathon was created in 1967 by National Country Ski Team member Don Macleod, and a dozen other determined skiers as a Centennial celebration and as a way to expand interest in cross-country skiing. In 1968. the Marathon turned into a 100-mile, two day wilderness event which has remained the format to this […]
Pierre Harvey was a member of Canada’s National Ski Team from 1981 to 1988 and has been Canada’s greatest cross-country skier competing internationally. He participated in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games in Sarajevo and Calgary and won three World Cup events, the only Canadian cross-country ski racer to do so. Then in 1988, in […]
Marie-Andrée was one of Canada’s top cross country ski racers from 1980 to 1992 when she was a member of the Canadian national team. She began her racing career in 1977 when she joined « Les Fondeurs of Saint-Jérome. At 14 years of age she entered her first competitions. Two years later she won the cross […]
Convinced of the great benefits cross-country skiing had on the physical and mental health, Bill Deskin devoted a big part of his professional life teaching the basics and secrets of his sport. Cross-country Director at Ski Chantecler from 1970, he became Director of the Domaine l’Estérel in 1976 and was still there in 1997, the […]
In 1938, Heinz Von Allman, ski instructor in Sainte- Marguerite, decided to gather all the Laurentian ski instructors together in order to standardize the teaching methods. Louis Cochand, also instructor in Sainte- Marguerite became, in 1939, head instructor for the Canadian Ski School. In 1949, the now called Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance became a Canada […]
Owner and operator with his wife Louise of the Far Hills Inn in Val-Morin since 1971, David Pemberton-Smith was a visionary who introduced to the Laurentians a model for an integrated and complete cross-country resort. He was first in the region to mechanically groom and track-set trails as he added to the historical Maple Leaf, […]
