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History of skiing in the Laurentians

 

 

Victor Nymark

An energetic and enterprising man, Victor Nymark is counted among the pioneers of the Mont Saint-Sauveur ski centre. In fact, it is thanks to him that this mountain was developed.

In 1930 he bought lots 251 and 252 where he built a house and farm buildings and grew vegetables to sell to visitors. With the aim of improving access to his farm, he extended rue Saint-Denis. And, so he could offer beds to skiers, he enlarged his house. In 1933, he teamed up with Adolphe Bélanger to create the Saint-Sauveur Sports Club (which became the Saint-Sauveur Ski Club) and erect a ski jump. Then in 1934 he opened the first ski shop in the area.

Starting in March 1935, the club organized a week of competitions and festivities, an annual event that helped make our region better known among Montrealers. if young people - and others - now enjoy a week off in early March, they might want to thank Victor Nymark, who helped start the tradition.

Victor Nymark was also a builder and constructed or helped construct many buildings in the Scandinavian log style, including Nymark Lodge (seen under construction in the 1939 photo of Saint-Sauveur) and the Chateau Montebello. In fact he left a heritage of nearly 50 typical log structures that mark the Laurentian landscape, among them St. Francis of the Birds, the Anglican church in Saint-Sauveur.

In 1960, Victor Nymark founded the nine-hole Saint-Sauveur Golf Club at the foot of Hill 70. He died in 1983 and is buried in the St. Francis of the Birds cemetery.

 

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