Rosemarie Schutz, Alpine ski racer and member of the 1952 Canadian Olympic Team in Olso. She was part of the first four women team sent by Canada to Olympic Games. Her teammates were Lucile Wheeler, Joanne Hewson and Rhoda Wurtele. In 1954, her last year of competition, Rosie won practically every race she entered in […]
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 […]
Tom “the Atom Bomb Barbeau was, in the early 50’s, a very active racer who climbed the podium several times at the Canadian Championships. Injuries kept him away from the Olympics. Jolly, loved by everyone, Barbeau believed that everybody should love skiing! It became his motto as a ski instructor for 25 years. Inventor of […]
Alex Kerr-Gillespie was born in Montréal in 1919 and moved after in the Laurentians with his family. Along with his brothers and sisters, he was going to school. That trail was later known as the “Gillespie Trail”. In 1936, he finished first in the Junior Tachereau at Mont-Tremblant. In 1940, he is the Provincial cross-country […]
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 […]
Pierre Cochand, son of the well known Émile Cochand, was born in 1924 at Sainte-Marguerite-Station. He awarded the Sainte-Agathe Ski Club Cup for the slalom competition in 1938. He was the winner of many championships of the Laurentian Zone and Inter School Championships between 1939 and 1945. He was the winner of the Taschereau Cup […]
Peter Kirby was a ski and a bobsleigh champion. He was the canadian junior alpine champion in 1951. He was a member of the Alternative Olympic Team in 1952. He won the Québec Division Downhill Championship in 1953. He was a member of the FIS Team in 1954. He was the captain of the Dartmouth […]
Fernand Lessard was born in 1924. He as the Junior Championship of the Université de Montréal in 1941. He won the Taschereau at Mont-Tremblant in 1942. He won the double slalom and the downhill at Saint-Sauveur in 1944. He was nicknamed the “Flying Frenchman” at the Giant Slalom of Mont-Gabriel. He won the Downhill Red Bird […]
Born in 1939 at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, in the Laurentians, Jean-Guy Brunet was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team between 1959 and 1964. He took part in the World Championships at Chamonix, France in 1962. He was the Canadian champion in downhill in 1962, in 1963 and in 1964. At last, he was a member […]
Born in Sherbrooke in 1944, Peter Duncan was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team in 1960. In 1963, he was the Canadian Alpine Ski Champion. Twice, in 1963 and in 1967, he finish first at the Quebec-Kandahar of Mont-Tremblant. In 1969, he received the John Semmelink Trophy. At last, he was the captain […]
