Roger Trottier was born in 1917 in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts in the Laurentians. He was a member of the Saint-Sauveur Sports Club, class A and a champion of all combined Quebec-Kandahar at Mont-Tremblant in 1930. He was an instructor and a director of ski schools from 1930 to 1954, both in the Laurentians and abroad. He was also an honory member of the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance (CSIA). He was inducted into the Hall of Fame from the Laurentian Ski Museum as a builder in 1983 in Saint-Sauveur.