Bev (1935-2025) 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 […]
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 […]
Ski instructor and coach, Robert «Bobby» Butler (1944-) spent his whole life on skis. His career, spanning from 1956 to 2014, was spent in 4 distinct chapters : Ski coach for the national level (1968 1971), competitor (1971-1974), business man and Ski instructor (1974-2014). Now, Butler is driven by the same passion for his […]
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 […]
Michel Marcoux was a coach, a builder and a manager of the alpine skiing. He worked at differents levels in many skiing’s organisation including the management of « Club de ski Mont-Tremblant. He was at the head of many internationals events. He was also the president of Ski Quebec. Michel Marcoux
Resident of Saint-Sauveur, Vincent Dorion was a competitor and a builder of freeskiing. He was one of the six world pioneers of freeskiing well-known by the Aspen’s X-Games. Vincent Dorion was known in the world like a living legend of the freeski world. Vincent Dorion
Native of Laurentians, Alexandre Bilodeau was a double gold medal of Olympics (Vancouver and Sochi) in acrobatic skiing-moguls. His gold medal was historic because it was the first gold medal won (in all sports) by the Canada at the Vancouver Games. By his victorys in World Cup, in Olympics Games and in World Championnships, Alexandre […]
