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 […]
Harry Pangman was the co-founder and the first president of the Red Birds Ski Club between 1928 and 1936. He was the winner of the Quebec-Kandahar downhill, Mont-Tremblant and the 2nd on the combined in 1932. He was finish second in the Laurentian Zone, 50 kilometers ski race in 1935. In 1938-39, he was the […]
Nancy Holland was a member of the Canada’s National Team in 1959 and in 1964. She participated at the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. She also participated in 1962 at the World Ski Championships in Chamonix, France. She was a member of the Olympic Team in Innsbruck, Austria in 1964. In 1970, she became […]
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 […]
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 […]
Born in Saint-Jovite on august 31st, 1918, Charles Duncan won his 1st championship at the age of 15. Belongs to the first team of instructors of the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance (CSIA) has he was instructor and then director of the ski school at Mont-Tremblant in the north of Laurentians. After his return from the […]
Patricia Paré, named “Pat Paré” was born in Montréal, Québec in 1918. She was a member of the first women ski club in Canada : the Penguin Ski Club. She won the downhill at the Dominion Ladies’ Championship in 1937. She was the first woman to win the downhill at the Quebec-Kandahar race in 1940. In […]
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 […]
Born on January 30rd, 1914, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec, Rolland Belhumeur founded a ski school for the 10 to 16 years of age in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec in 1940. He was a senior ski instructor (grade IV) of the Canadian Ski Instructors’s Alliance (CSIA) and a director of ski schools between 1930 and 1962. He was involved […]
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 […]
