Learn Parallel Skiing at the Frontenac

In 1939, Canadian Pacific issued a poster advertising skiing in Quebec featuring what appears to be a studio photo (there’s no trace of snow anywhere) of a woman with ski goggles and ski poles. Someone then overlaid a version of that photo that was so heavily touched up that it no longer looks like a photo on top of a photo of Chateau Frontenac for this menu. The menu is undated but is probably from 1939 or 1940.

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The back of the menu tells people they can “learn parallel skiing at Lac Beauport” while they “live at the Chateau Frontenac.” “The new parallel technique,” says the menu, was “perfected at the Chateau Frontenac Ski-Hawk School, headed by Swiss ski maestro Fritz Loosli.” According to Wikipedia, parallel skiing was invented in the 1930s by Austrian skier Anton Seelos, which enabled him to win the World Championship in slalom skiing in 1933.


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