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 […]
Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1943, Nancy Greene was seven times Canadian Champion and three times U.S.A Champion. In 1967-68, she was an overall World Cup Champion. In 1968, at the Grenoble Olympics in France, she won two medals (gold and silver). In her carreer, she won 14 World Cup races. Nancy Greene-Raine
Born in 1939, Anne Heggveit was the youngest skier to win the Holmenkollen Giant Slalom at Oppdal, Norway, in 1954.The same year she won the double combined title in St-Moritz, Switzerland. In 1959 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she was the winner of the prestigious Arlberg-Kandahar Championship, the first non-European person to do so. Also, in 1960, she […]
Now in their nineties but still full of vitality, Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele can be counted among the most brilliant of Quebec athletes of all time. In their youth, they excelled in all sports but their dream was to master the 38 metre ski jump set up high on the Mount-Royal. At age 11 only, […]
Born in Morin-Heights in 1936, Corrine Whitehouse was a member of the Canadian team that raced at Lake Placid for the Kate Smith Trophy. Amongst other victories, she won the Taschereau downhill in 1953 at Mont-Tremblant. In 1958, she became the first woman to receive a senior rating (Level IV) with the Canadian Ski Instructors’ […]
Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1927, Marvin « Mickey » Stein was a remarkable skier. In his younger days, he participated actively with the Laurentian Ski Patrol. In 1959, he was the founder and the director of the Mont-Habitant (Saint-Sauveur, Quebec) ski resort. He is the one who introduced night skiing in the Laurentians, at Mont-Habitant. Also, […]
Gault Kerr-Gillespie was a brilliant and courageous cross-country skier, winner, in the 30s and 40s, of many championships of the Laurentian Ski Zone. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team in 1936 but did not participate in the German Olympic that were cancelled because of World War II. That same year, he won 5 […]
At 2 years old, Lucile Wheeler began skiing at Gray Rocks, close to Mont-Tremblant. At 12, she was the National Junior Champion, and by 14 she was on Canada’s National Ski Team. In 1956, Wheeler won Canada’s first ever Olympics medal in skiing, a bronze at the Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. In 1958, she […]
At a time when the practice of skiing was largely dominated by Anglophone, Arthur Gravel was able to stand out as both an athlete and an accomplished skier. Born in Québec City on July 4, 1904, he took part in ski competitions from 1920 to 1936. In 1922, he won the University Championship in nordic […]
Harry Wheeler was one of the first to climb Mont-Tremblant on skis on March 10th, 1916. He competed in the 1932 Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y. and finished with honor in the sled-dog racing event. Also, He was a successful winter and summer operator in the Laurentians, in The Gray Rocks Inn, in Saint-Jovite. Harry […]
