1944-1945 Year Book - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 35
there, so book your space early.
At Val Morin there are many
places to stay, also at Val David
and Mont Roll'and, all on the
C.P.R.
A few miles south over plainly
marked well-conditioned trails
is Ste. Marguerite, 900 feet
elevation, a busy centre in all
seasons, many private ski cabins,
and one of our best inns,
The Alpine, rebuilt, and crowded
to the doors. A standard
jumping hill is just down the
river and Hill 60 with its overworked
ski tows. Three miles
east. is Chalet Cochand, presided
over by Emile and his busy
wife, they started the Chalet in
1914, and have built up a remarkable
all-year clientele that
comes back to them season after
season. Emile, an old friend of
mine, is one of the finest allround
ski men I have ever met,
and his sons headed by the famous
Louis now in the R.C.A.F.
are 'chips off the the block.' The
skiing is interesting, trail mostly
with some open country,
slalom and downhill with ski
lifts, a good standard jumping
hill. We are all proud ,)f the
Cochands and what they mean
to our skiing. Tom Potter a
former Montreal broker, · has
spent a fortune in his Ste .. A dele
Lodge development; lovely hotel,
many cottages, the biggest dining
and drinking room in the
mountains; enormous crowds
flock there in the winter, and
summer as well. The Chantecler
is close by, surrounded by ski
tows, and all around, hills without
number, Mont Rolland is the
nearest station on the C.P.R.­
many places to stay, lunch and
drink in the vicinity, quite our
busiest centre.
On the Maple Leaf Trail
"Where do we go from here?"
Fred Dixon and John Clifford
A short run south and west,
cross country over open hills and
bush trails is the Ste. Sauveur
valley, 600 feet elevation, and
to me the most picturesque community
of all, though of late terribly
overcrowded. The little
village lies in a ·natural valley
with cleared hills on all sides
rising to 700 feet, the main
street bordered with one ski
cabin after the other, an old
gray stone church on the corner,
it might be a bit of Switzerland.
Many boarding houses and eating
places available, the Sunday
morning crowds arriving on ~he
C.N.R. enormous, every hill and
tow jammed, it is difficult to get
anything to eat or drink. Just
outside the village is the Penguin
clubhouse where forty
smart and pretty girls live in
every comfort. This is our only
all women's ski club, and it is
doing a grand job in advancing
modern ski technique among the