Instructor and builder, alpine skiing. Eddy, a level 4 of the Canadian Ski Instructor’s Alliance (CSIA) spent the major part of his 23 years teaching at Gray Rocks where he became the Snow Eagle Ski School director for 7 years, from 1981 to 1988. In those days, the ski school played an important part in […]
Gerard and his father Max were the builders and operators of one of the Laurentians most popular alpine resorts in the 1960s and 70s, Sun Valley in Sainte-Adele. Over the years the resort became well known for its gastronomy as well as for the vivacity of its bar during after-ski hours. It was simply “the […]
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 […]
Ex Mont Tremblant GM and Intrawest regional VP, he was the man chosen by Intrawest to rebuild the Laurentians’ most important resort. The result was such that Mont-Tremblant was named “best ski resort in the East for over 10 consecutive years”. Roger McCarthy*
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 […]
Born in Val-Morin and now residing in the Mont-Tremblant region Anderson is Canada’s most decorated snowboarder having achieved a World Championship gold medal in all 3 slalom events over his career, and an Olympic gold medal in parallel GS at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. Anderson is also a five-time Olympic athlete, having represented Canada in the 1998 […]
IInstructor, builder, fond of alpine and cross-country skiing, Paul Lalonde (1917-1984) had a mission, to revive cross-country trails too often invaded by Nature and, where necesary, to develop new ones. Lalonde’s skiing career is associated for the greater part to the slopes of La Marquise in Saint-Sauveur, to ski teaching as well as the preservation […]
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 […]
Athlete, instructor and builder in alpine skiing, Jean Carpentier (1940-) began skiing in early in the 50’. In 1958-59, he began working as ski patroller at Mont Tremblant. He was also a very competitive skier in the Laurentian Zone, as well in the other parts of Quebec where he regularly figured well skiing with the […]
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 […]
