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William 'Bill' King (September 15, 1930 - December 3, 2020) was a former British Columbia politician from Revelstoke. King was a member of Dave Barrett's 1972 BC NDP provincial government, serving in the post of Minister of Labour. [1] [2] King was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan to Irish immigrants Patrick and Minnie King. He married Audrey ...
Isabel Patricia Coursier was born on March 21, 1906 to Isabel Steed Coursier and Henry Noble Coursier in Revelstoke, British Columbia. [1] She went by the name Pat, derived from her middle name. [2] She had a sister and two brothers, one of whom died of drowning at the age of six. [3] [4]
Craig Kelly (April 1, 1966 – January 20, 2003) was an American professional snowboarder.Kelly is known as the 'Godfather of Freeriding'; Terje Håkonsen called Kelly the best snowboarder of all time.
This is a list of skiing deaths of notable people, in chronological order, and includes skiers and snowboarders both professional and recreational whose deaths are due to accidents or avalanches.
Arvid Waldemar Lundell (September 6, 1899 – May 6, 1984) was a newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia.He represented Revelstoke in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1949 to 1952 as a Conservative member of the Coalition Government, and from 1956 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1966 as a Social Credit member.
Revelstoke Ski Club was founded in 1914 and, by the following year, had reached 102 members. The pinnacle of the club was the annual Winter Carnival Tournament. The first tournament was held in 1915 and had, in addition to cross-country skiing competitions, ski jumping competitions for boys under 16 and the title of Champion of British Columbia.
Greene was born on May 11, 1943, in Ottawa, Ontario.She moved with her family to Rossland, British Columbia, [4] before she was three years of age. Rossland is a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in 1897.
James Roland "Jim" Chabot (May 8, 1927 – October 9, 1989) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada for the riding of Columbia and its successor Columbia River from 1963 to 1986. [1] [2] [3] He was born in Farnham, Quebec, and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s.