John Fripp fut le gagnant de la classe ouverte de la Québec-Kandahar du Mont Tremblant en 1939-40 et en 1946-47. Il remporta le Championnat canadien et le Championnat de l’est du Canada en 1939. Il remporta également la Coupe Alta au Utah et la Coupe Ryan au Mont Tremblant en 1946. Il gagna le combiné […]
Myrtle Cook fut l’une des pionnières journaliste de ski ayant couvert le ski sous toutes ses formes durant plus de 39 ans, soit de 1929 à 1967. Elle-même vedette d’athlétisme, elle remporta, au cours de sa carrière, plus de 90 médailles incluant une médaille d’or au 400 mètres relais des Jeux olympiques d’Amsterdam en 1928. […]
Bien connu dans le milieu du ski, Bernard Trottier fut un moniteur, un directeur, mais surtout un homme d’affaires du ski. Commerçant talentueux, il pu grâce à ses succès devenir l’un des philanthropes importants du ski, toutes disciplines confondues : ski alpin, ski de fond, ski acrobatique et ski pour handicapés. Président-fondateur du « Club Mille-Aide […]
One of 10 children, Rémi Cloutier is the son of a pioneer ski manufacturer and a fifth generation resident of the Laurentians. In 1948, he won the Canadian Junior Downhill Championships in Banff. That year he was named alternate to Canada’s Olympic Alpine Team. It is however his involvement as builder that has drawn the […]
The Viking Ski Club becomed one of the first in Canada to import and sell cross-country ski equipment in 1958. The club’s members actively participated in Canadian Ski Marathon in 1967. The Club hosted the Canadian Championships in 1968. In 1977, he hosted the North American Senior Championships. In 1980, he host the first ever World […]
Following a youth dominated by skiing and competition where he made it to the National Team, Louis spent a few years outside of skiing, in « regular industry ». In 1971, he was offered an opportunity to come back to his first love by joining the Mont-Saint-Sauveur marketing team. Mont-Saint-Sauveur was, at that time, a small, simple […]
Elton Irwin was an assistant director of the Snow Eagle Ski School under Réal Charette at Gray Rocks. He was the director of the ski school at Jasper, at Chantecler and at Chalet Cochand. He supervised skiing and sports for Far Hills Inn, Château Lac Beauport and Pleasant View Inn. He was a member of […]
Monique Langlais was the winner of the combined for the Kate Smith Trophy at Lake Placid International in 1953. She was first in the combined at the Eastern Canada Championships in 1954 and she was also the winner of the Provincial Downhill Championships in Val-David on the « Shaky Leg » trail at Mont-Plante in 1955. The […]
Alice Johannsen is well-known in the ski community as the daughter of Jackrabbit Johannsen. Born in 1911 in Cuba, Alice Johannsen grew up first in Norway, then in the United States, before settling in Canada with her family toward the end of her teenage years. After high school, she went on to McGill University. In […]
The Red Bird Ski Club (RBSC) was founded in 1928 by McGill graduates W. Bill Thompson, Colonel Wilfrid Bovey, A. Harry Pangman and H. Sterling Maxwell. They organized and ran the first Quebec-Kandahar in 1932 upon request of the Kandahar Ski Club of Switzerland. In 1934, they dedicated a ski slope in Saint-Sauveur to Sir […]
