Well known director of the best ski schools in the Laurentians, Guy Normandin was a Ski lieutenant-instructor with the Canadian and British armed Forces (Lord Lavat scouts commandos) survival course under arctic conditions. He was a Former director and qualified examiner fot the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance and he was also Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance […]
Born in Loretteville, Québec in 1920, Gaby Pleau was a member of the Alpine National Ski team between 1942 and 1946. During her carreer, she won many Championships in Québec, in Canada and in the United-States. In 1947, she founded a ski club for girls and women “Club-École Saint-Castin du Lac Beauport”. With 163 members, […]
Born in Switzerland in 1890, at age 19 he was already a ski champion and instructor in the Swiss army. Here in Canada, the Laurentide Inn in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts asked him to come and teach skiing. Accepting the invitation, he came to live in the area in 1911 at the age of 21, bringing with him […]
Louis Cochand, son of Émile Cochand Senior, took part in many ski races throughout Quebec between 1925 and 1935. He participated with success in 5 Quebec-Kandahar races between 1936 and 1941. In 1937, he won the Dominion Ski Championships in Banff. He raced in Switzerland, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria, winning many championships in 1938 […]
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 […]
Ernie McCulloch was considered the best skier of the second part of the century. He earned one distinction after another, being the only skier to make a « Grand Slam » of the four major competitions in North America. Was inducted into both the U.S. and the Canadian Ski Halls of Fame and also in the Hall […]
