Premier club féminin au pays, le Penguin Ski Club vit le jour en 1932. Il regroupait alors un petit groupe sélect de jeunes femmes enthousiastes qui voulaient promouvoir la compétence et l’excellence du ski auprès des femmes. Établi à Saint-Sauveur, le Penguin Ski Club a fondé le Junior Development Program, puis l’école de de ski […]
Alex Kerr-Gillespie naît à Montréal en 1919, puis il déménage dans les Laurentides avec sa famille. Avec ses frères et surs, il se rend en ski à l’école. Leur trajet deviendra la « piste Gillespie ». En 1936, il remporta la Tachereau Junior au Mont Tremblant. En 1940, il est le champion provincial senior de ski de […]
John F. Clifford est né à Ottawa en 1923. Il est l’un des grands bâtisseurs du ski canadien. En 1948, il développe le versant nord du Mont-Tremblant et y installe le premier télésiège. L’année suivante, il est le meilleur Canadien aux Championnats canadiens du Mont-Tremblant. Au début des années 1960, il installe les premiers systèmes […]
Peter Kirby was a ski and a bobsleigh champion. He was the canadian junior alpine champion in 1951. He was a member of the Alternative Olympic Team in 1952. He won the Québec Division Downhill Championship in 1953. He was a member of the FIS Team in 1954. He was the captain of the Dartmouth […]
Sons of John Basler, a Swiss immigrant settled in Morin-Heights in 1919, Georges « Bunny » Basler and Albert Basler builted the first rope tow at Morin-Heights and the first hotel for skiers in the Laurentians. Bunny and Albert won several ski competitions in the Laurentians. After the Second World War, Albert manages the family motel business […]
Born in 1902 at Montréal, Allison Holland was an early skier on self made barrel staves, tied with rubber bands, on Mount Royal in 1912. He then became a downhill expert skier until the age of 85. In 1955, he opened a renowned accident clinic, near Hill 70 (Saint-Sauveur), treating upwards of 13,000 skiing injuries, […]
Born in Sherbrooke in 1944, Peter Duncan was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team in 1960. In 1963, he was the Canadian Alpine Ski Champion. Twice, in 1963 and in 1967, he finish first at the Quebec-Kandahar of Mont-Tremblant. In 1969, he received the John Semmelink Trophy. At last, he was the captain […]
Born in Loretteville, Québec in 1920, Gaby Pleau was a member of the Alpine National Ski team between 1942 and 1946. During her carreer, she won many Championships in Québec, in Canada and in the United-States. In 1947, she founded a ski club for girls and women « Club-École Saint-Castin du Lac Beauport ». With 163 members, […]
Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1943, Nancy Greene was seven times Canadian Champion and three times U.S.A Champion. In 1967-68, she was an overall World Cup Champion. In 1968, at the Grenoble Olympics in France, she won two medals (gold and silver). In her carreer, she won 14 World Cup races. Nancy Greene-Raine
Well known director of the best ski schools in the Laurentians, Guy Normandin was a Ski lieutenant-instructor with the Canadian and British armed Forces (Lord Lavat scouts commandos) survival course under arctic conditions. He was a Former director and qualified examiner fot the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance and he was also Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance […]
