Myrtle Cook was a pioneer ski journalist and covered skiing competitions and the ski scene generally for more than 39 years, from 1929 to 1967. A former track and field star she won over 90 Championship medals including an Olympic Gold medal in the women’s 400 metre relay at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Myrtle […]

John Fripp was a winner of the Open Class of the Quebec-Kandahar at Mont-Tremblant in the season 1939-40 and in 1946-47. He won the Canadian and the Eastern Canadian Championships in 1939. He won the Alta Cup in Utah and the Ryan Cup at Mont-Tremblant in 1946. He won the open class downhill and combined […]

Joanne Hewson-Rees Began skiing at 3 on Mount-Royal. From 1948-51, she skied on the McGill University ski team. In 1952, she was part of the first complete women’s ski team ever sent to the Olympics by Canada. She became one of two first females “certified” ski instructors by the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance at Tremblant […]