Maintenant nonagénaires mais encore resplendissantes de vitalité, Rhoda et Rhona Wurtele comptent parmi les plus brillantes athlètes qu’ait connues le Québec. Très jeunes, elles excellent dans tous les sports mais leur rêve est de planer à partir du tremplin de 38 mètres qui surplombe le Mont-Royal. À l’âge de 11 ans, c’est chose faite. Devenues […]
Harry Pangman fut le cofondateur et le premier président du club de ski Red Birds de 1928 à 1936. En 1932, il termina premier en descente à la Québec-Kandahar au Mont-Tremblant et deuxième au combiné. Puis, en 1935, il est deuxième à la course de 50 kilomètres de la zone Laurentienne. En 1938-39, il fut […]
Réal Charette fut l’un des pionners du ski dans les Laurentides, commençant à y skier dès 1930. Durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, il fut lieutenant et moniteur de ski pour les troupes canadiennes et écossaises. Il fut le premier moniteur de ski niveau IV accrédité par l’Alliance des moniteurs de ski du Canada (AMSC). Il […]
Born in Morin-Heights in 1936, Corrine Whitehouse was a member of the Canadian team that raced at Lake Placid for the Kate Smith Trophy. Amongst other victories, she won the Taschereau downhill in 1953 at Mont-Tremblant. In 1958, she became the first woman to receive a senior rating (Level IV) with the Canadian Ski Instructors’ […]
Raymond Lanctôt was known as an exceptional level IV ski instructor. He became a respected level IV examiner for the Canadian Ski Instructor’s Alliance. As a former director and president of the C.S.I.A., he was named a life member of this association. He was a ski instructor at Mont-Tremblant and Mont-Plante for several years. He […]
Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1927, Marvin « Mickey » Stein was a remarkable skier. In his younger days, he participated actively with the Laurentian Ski Patrol. In 1959, he was the founder and the director of the Mont-Habitant (Saint-Sauveur, Quebec) ski resort. He is the one who introduced night skiing in the Laurentians, at Mont-Habitant. Also, […]
Gault Kerr-Gillespie was a brilliant and courageous cross-country skier, winner, in the 30s and 40s, of many championships of the Laurentian Ski Zone. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team in 1936 but did not participate in the German Olympic that were cancelled because of World War II. That same year, he won 5 […]
A resident of Saint-Sauveur since 1964. Where she began her professional career, Linda Crutchfield has been inducted into 7 Halls of Fame in 3 sports: downhill skiing, water skiing and luge. Her athletic career spans 17 years and 3 national teams; downhill skiing (1959-1965), water skiing (1965-1975), and luge (1967-1969). She competed in 5 Olympic […]
Patricia Paré, named « Pat Paré » was born in Montréal, Québec in 1918. She was a member of the first women ski club in Canada : the Penguin Ski Club. She won the downhill at the Dominion Ladies’ Championship in 1937. She was the first woman to win the downhill at the Quebec-Kandahar race in 1940. In […]
Born in Saint-Jovite on august 31st, 1918, Charles Duncan won his 1st championship at the age of 15. Belongs to the first team of instructors of the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance (CSIA) has he was instructor and then director of the ski school at Mont-Tremblant in the north of Laurentians. After his return from the […]
