Bâtisseur ski alpin. Il s’est illustré dans le monde du ski en tant que pionnier dans la fabrication et dans la mise en place de remontées mécaniques de la fin des années 1930 jusqu’au début des années 1960. Il a aussi géré le Mont Gabriel et, développé et géré le Mont Olympia à Piedmont. Également, […]
Moniteur, bâtisseur, ski alpin. Ce policier de carrière a toujours eu le coeur au ski et à l’enseignement qu’il a découvert à l’adolescence en 1962 au centre Sun Valley au nord de ste-Adèle. En tout, il aura enseigné 55 ans dont plus de 40 au Mont Saint-Sauveur (Sommet Saint-Sauveur). Sa passion pour le ski l’amena […]
Moniteur de ski, bâtisseur, ski alpin. Grand passionné du ski, il a contribué à l’essor de son sport, entre autre, par la gestion de centres de ski (Carling Lake), par la gestion d’écoles de ski, par l’organisation de voyages de ski et par une longue carrière dans l’enseignement du ski à Morin-Heights. En 2016, il […]
Moniteur, bâtisseur, ski alpin. Eddy, certifié niveau 4 dans l’Alliance des moniteurs de ski du Canada (AMSC) a passé la majeure partie de sa carrière, soit 23 ans, à Gray Rocks. Il fut directeur de la fameuse école de ski Snow Eagle durant 7 ans, soit de 1981 à 1988. À cette époque, l’école de […]
This Canadian born ski journalist began his skiing career as ski instructor in the Laurentians, at the famous Snow Eagle Ski School at Gray Rocks. In the early 50s he immigrated to the US where he taught at Squaw Valley under Emile Allais. Doug has had several careers sequentially as well as concurrently. For over […]
This Canadian, born in Montreal in 1930, became one of the world’s eminent ski journalists. He was at one time or another editor of Ski and Skiing magazines as well as the trade publication Ski Business. He was hired to create a then new and innovative magazine, Snow Country. Since 1954 he has published more […]
Bev (1935-) and Biff Waldorf (1929-2011) are among those whose entire lives revolved around skiing. While neither has ever had an elite racing career or a paying job related to skiing, both spent countless hours skiing, training for skiing, racing true amateur style, raising a generation. The spent countless hours volunteering to help various ski […]
Jacques G. Hébert (1936-2006) dedicated his professional life to the leisure industry in Québec. Visionary and entrepreneur he, without a doubt, became one of the predominent figures and pioneer of the modern ski industry in Quebec. An avid sportsman and ski instructor during his studies, he become more interested in the ski industry in 1970 […]
Chris Blanchard, nordic skiing athlete (1971-)’s international career spanned a decade from 1988 when he was a forerunner at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary to 1998 when he competed for Canada at the Nagano Olympics in Japan. For 26 years Chris devoted a major part of his life to skiing and was a […]
Mimi Séguin was an elite skier who skied with the best skiers of her time, including Lucile Wheeler, Ann Heggtveit, Joanne Hewson and Gigi Seguin (her sister). After she was injured, she put her carreer on pause and continued to follow, on her own, her colleagues and friends to give them technical, psychological and logistical […]
