Memorable Moments

Excellence on the Escarpment

Canadian marketers call it the Blue Mountains but locals know it as the escarpment—a rim overlooking Georgian Bay, a geological landmark of Southern Ontario with a vertical drop of 750 feet and a 2.

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The McGill Red Birds Ski Club

The history of Canadian skiing is full of pioneers and visionaries, movers and shakers, heroes and stars.

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The Quebec Kandahar Cup

The Québec Kandahar Cup has been Canada’s premier alpine ski racing event ever since the world-renowned Kandahar Club in Mürren, Switzerland gifted the silver trophy to the Canadian Amateur Ski Association in 1931.

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The Untold (and Told) Crazy Canucks Stories

Call it ironic or call it quintessentially Canadian.

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Made in Canada

The evolution of skiing is a long and complex web of stories, research and artifacts spanning roughly 10,000 years, depending on which ski historian you speak to.

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Memorable Canadian Moments at the Winter Olympics (Part 2)

The Winter Olympic Games movement picked up steam in the 1960s, with increased global interest and continued expansion and diversification of sports and related disciplines.

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Memorable Canadian Moments at the Winter Olympics (Part 1)

The first Winter Olympic Games were held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

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The Canadian Origins of Skiing and Snowboarding

As we time-travel back in our minds, we can put ourselves into the shoes of the first pioneers of skiing, a sport first founded 22,000 years ago.

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A Tour of Canadian Skiing Firsts

From glorious mountains to man-made ski hills and trails, Canada has embraced the customs and techniques of ski and snowboard culture from coast to coast.

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The Maple Leaf Trail

The Laurentian region of Quebec is known as the “cradle of skiing” in North America because of its rich history as one of the oldest ski regions in Canada.

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