Bombardier was founded by Joseph,known as the Father of Snowmobiling, who put runners on an old car engine to make the first prototype snowmobile.
It was primitive and hideous.
Joseph designed and built treaded snow vehicles that were used as logging machines, transports for mining prospectors, military ambulances for winter battlefields and conveyances for rural doctors, during the next 20 years.
These machines were too cumbersome and expensive for the average buyer.
So in 1959, Bombardier’s small factory garage in Valcourt began to turn out a new, lightweight, highly maneuverable and inexpensive vehicle.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, a farm boy was born at Valcourt, east of Montréal near Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, on April 16, 1907 and died at Sherbrooke, Quebec, on Feb. 18, 1964.
