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...comely Manitoba-born French Canadian who had also tried her hand at schoolmarming and amateur acting, was well-pleased with her success-and her $3,000 in royalties. But she went right on working in her home at rustic little Rawdon (pop. 2,000) in Quebec's Laurentian mountains. Then a happy chance, of the kind she had written about, befell...
...level. Other thrill-seekers slide down the Douglas and Drummond glaciers. But most of the skiing is done where most of the $50 million invested in ski lodges, inns, ski tows and slopes in Canada has been spent. That is the 50-mile sweep of rolling, easily accessible Laurentian Mountains, 40 miles north of Montreal. This winter Laurentian resort operators hope to rake in over $30 million from 300,000 skiers (125,000 of them from...
Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...
...February 28, the Crimson will enter the Intercollegiate Ski Union Championships at Mont Tremblant in the Canadian Laurentians, Cabot revealed. The Laurentian competition is sponsored by McGill University, and is open to both Canadian and U. S. colleges...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...