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Epilogue

THE FUTURE

When snow is no longer an obstacle, it becomes a pleasure.
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This image takes us back into the initial car where the young woman and her grandfather are seated.

Snowmobiles were quite an invention!

A yellow snowplow pulls up to the car driven by the woman, with the intent to pass it on the left to clear the road.

Look Grandpa... it’s starting to clear up!

The snowplow passes the vehicle on the left and pushes the snow to the side of the road.

Starting in 1949, the Quebec government decreed mandatory snow clearing for roads throughout the province. People no longer needed snowmobiles to get around in winter.

The young woman asks her grandfather about the Bombardier snowmobile, wondering how it turned out.

So that was the end of Bombardier’s snowmobile?

It was the beginning of smaller recreational snowmobiles, my dear.

The car resumes its journey on a clear horizon… and a path cleared of snow!

But that’s another story.

The End

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IllustrationSIMON LECLERC
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Black and white portrait of Joseph-Armand Bombardier. He is wearing a jacket, white shirt and striped tie, as well as a handkerchief. Mr. Bombardier is wearing glasses and has a moustache.Colour portrait of Yvonne Labrecque Bombardier. Mrs. Labrecque has shoulder-length curly hair, is wearing glasses and a green V-shaped dress with a white flower in the centre.Black and white photograph of a reconstruction of the 1931 tracked vehicle developed by Joseph-Armand Bombardier. The vehicle in question was manufactured by Alphonse-Raymond, Gérard, and Léopold Bombardier, Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s brothers, around 1968 as part of the project to create the Musée J. Armand Bombardier. On the picture the vehicle seems to have two colours: black for the body and red for the wooden cab that was added. Behind the vehicle, the Bombardier Garage can be seen in white. The photo was taken in Valcourt on the site of today’s Musée de l’ingéniosité J. Armand Bombardier. The garage, which was originally on Saint-Joseph Street, was moved there in 1968 for the creation of the Museum.