Founded in 1947 by Lucien Foisy, a passionate skier well-known in his area, the Club de ski Épervier had as a mission to bring skiing to everybody and to increase its practice among francophones of the Saint-Jérôme area in the Laurentians. Club de ski Épervier
Bob Gilmour was one of the Laurentians and Canada’s best alpine racers in the 50s and early 60s. Among his many achievements and victories, he was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team from 1959 to 1962, member of the 1960 Canadian Olympic Team, won the Taschereau downhill race in 1953 as well as […]
Jean-Luc Brassard started skiing at 7 years old. He participated in his first full-scale competition at the age of 13. He was the gold medal winner in ski moguls at the 1994 Olympics (Lillehammer, Norway). He was the World champion in mogul skiing between 1993 and 1997. He dominated the World Cup circuit for 10 […]
Member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team from 1985 to 1992, Alain Villiard became one of the finest slalom skiers to come out of the Laurentians. He was Canadian slalom champion four times; North American champion; 14th at the Olympics in Calgary, in 1988. His best placing on the World Cup was 8th in Slovenia; […]
Annie started skiing at 2 years old at Vallée Bleue. She started competing at 9 as a member of the Laurentian Zone Team where she stayed until she turned 15. At 16, she joined the Quebec team. At 17, she climbed most of the podiums of the provincial circuit and made a name for herself […]
Myriam Bedard is the first Canadian to have medaled in the Olympics in the sport of biathlon. She won a bronze medal in Albertville in 1992. Then in 1994, two gold medals, one in the 7.5 km, the other in the 15 km biathlon events, an extraordinary feat achieved in Lillehammer, Norway, a country where […]
Per Hall arrived in Canada in 1940. Interested in skiing Per and his wife began skiing in the Laurentians where they saw the resort potential of skiing and began looking for an appropriate site. He found the Up-Hill Ltd. Their search brought them to Hills 70 and 71 in Saint-Sauveur where some primitive installations were […]
Inducted posthumously, Chip Drury was an athlete, a trainer and a man of exceptional qualities. He rapidly made a name for himself at the Lower Canada College where he dominated all three disciplines in ski, downhill, slalom and cross-country. From 1965 to 1970, he was a member of the National Ski Team . In 1970, […]
Born in Switzerland, Josianne Legault immigrated to Canada in 1968. Having been a member of the Swiss National Alpine Ski Team, she began a skiing career in Canada. Legault, a Level 4 Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance instructor and Level 3 coach from Canadian Ski Coaches Federation, became, in 1972, a ski school director at Hills […]
Diane was a member of Canada’s National Ski Team from 1969 to 1973. She retired from competition in 1973 to take on new challenges in skiing. Those included teaching and coaching. She coached, among others Felix Belczyk and Deedee Haight at that time in Nancy Greene League at Rossland and eventually as National Team members. […]
