Ski instructor, builder, alpine skiing. A career policeman, Gilles’ heart was really on skiing and ski teaching which he was exposed to in his teens at Sun Valley ski area North of Sainte-Adele in 1962. All in all, he will have taught skiing for more than 55 years, 40 of which at Mont Saint-Sauveur now Sommet Saint-Sauveur. His passion for skiing brought him to volunteer on the board of the Laurentian Ski Museum where he was president for four years.