Mont Avila

In 1957, the Wilfrid Forget family sold their land to Messrs. Schwartz and Duchesneck who went on to develop Mont Avila - both the ski area and the residential portion - including laying out the runs and building a chalet..

At the beginning of the 1960s they sold their properties, including the ski centre, to an Italian consortium led by luge champion Sergio Zardini. The consortium continued the ski centre development and put in a luge run. However after Zardini's accidental death in 1967 his successor, Mr. Castellani, did not maintain the luge track.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the chalet burned and was rebuilt in concrete. In the mid-1990s, the consortium sold the ski area to Mont Saint-Sauveur International Inc.