Following a youth dominated by skiing and competition where he made it to the National Team, Louis spent a few years outside of skiing, in “regular industry”. In 1971, he was offered an opportunity to come back to his first love by joining the Mont-Saint-Sauveur marketing team. Mont-Saint-Sauveur was, at that time, a small, simple […]
The Laurentian Ski Zone has a colourful and rich history which can be traced back to the formation of the Montreal Ski Club. The club, the first ski club in North America, gave birth to the Laurentian Ski Zone in September 1904. When it was inducted, this organization was regrouping more than 1,000 competitors in […]
Elton Irwin was an assistant director of the Snow Eagle Ski School under Réal Charette at Gray Rocks. He was the director of the ski school at Jasper, at Chantecler and at Chalet Cochand. He supervised skiing and sports for Far Hills Inn, Château Lac Beauport and Pleasant View Inn. He was a member of […]
Jean-Paul “Eddy” Fortier loved snowmobile and crosscountry: the impossible combo. In 1970, he made his choice: it was the cross-country skiing. He converted his family to crosscountry by selling his “ski-doos”. Actively involved in clearing and opening crosscountry trails, his first trail that ran from Mont-Rolland to Piedmont was built between 1972 and 1979. He […]
Monique Langlais was the winner of the combined for the Kate Smith Trophy at Lake Placid International in 1953. She was first in the combined at the Eastern Canada Championships in 1954 and she was also the winner of the Provincial Downhill Championships in Val-David on the “Shaky Leg” trail at Mont-Plante in 1955. The […]
Lucien Lachapelle was a journalist and ski historian he worked for The Canadian Press for 47 years, from 1930 to 1977. In January 1946, he covered his first ski race for The Canadian Press, the Red Birds’ downhill at Saint-Sauveur. In 1949, he was a driving force behind the creation and formation of ski clubs […]
Alice Johannsen is well-known in the ski community as the daughter of Jackrabbit Johannsen. Born in 1911 in Cuba, Alice Johannsen grew up first in Norway, then in the United States, before settling in Canada with her family toward the end of her teenage years. After high school, she went on to McGill University. In […]
Son of Canadian Olympic skier Rhoda Wurtele, John Eaves was born in Montreal in 1953. He started skiing at age 2 and raced in the Laurentian Zone until age 13. He competed professionally in freestyleskiing from 1973 to 1982 and won 42 World Cup events. He won three World Aerial Skiing titles and three World Combined […]
The Red Bird Ski Club (RBSC) was founded in 1928 by McGill graduates W. Bill Thompson, Colonel Wilfrid Bovey, A. Harry Pangman and H. Sterling Maxwell. They organized and ran the first Quebec-Kandahar in 1932 upon request of the Kandahar Ski Club of Switzerland. In 1934, they dedicated a ski slope in Saint-Sauveur to Sir […]
Born in Trois-Rivières in 1930, Jacques Charland was a remarkable ski-jumping skier. He was the Canada junior champion in 1947. He also was the Senior champion of Eastern Canada in 1951. He was the record holder for the longest jump for a North American jumper in 1958. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic […]
