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Word: laurentian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also, the Laurentian range extending from Tremblant three hours south to Montreal offers many closely connected resorts like Saint Marguerite, with a T-bar lift and the luxurious Chalet Cochaud, Saint Adole, and Saint Adole both with rope tows. None have the extensiveness of facilities or size of hills that many New England resorts possess, claim Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hills Are No Steeper and Snow No Whiter in Canada, Says Ski Club | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Happy Accident | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Winter Wonderland | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Winter Wonderland | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

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