Le Petit Train du Nord (Montreal Gazette)
From The Montreal Gazette:
By David Johnston
The Gazette
January 14, 2010
It was in the late 1930s that skiing in the Laurentians, alpine as well as cross-country, went mainstream. Even though most people didn’t own a car at the time, the famous Le Petit Train du Nord brought 111,000 tourists up to the Laurentians from Montreal in the winter of 1937-38, 10 times the 11,000 the train carried in the winter of 1927-28.
It's story is told at the Laurentian Ski Museum in St. Sauveur, Quebec.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Powered+small+train/2415778/story.html
By David Johnston
The Gazette
January 14, 2010
It was in the late 1930s that skiing in the Laurentians, alpine as well as cross-country, went mainstream. Even though most people didn’t own a car at the time, the famous Le Petit Train du Nord brought 111,000 tourists up to the Laurentians from Montreal in the winter of 1937-38, 10 times the 11,000 the train carried in the winter of 1927-28.
It's story is told at the Laurentian Ski Museum in St. Sauveur, Quebec.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Powered+small+train/2415778/story.html
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