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Timberjack

  • CA-ON-TIM-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1950s-

Founded in Woodstock, Ontario in the 1950s by Wesley Maggil and Robert Simons, Timberjack is a manufacturer of forestry machinery for both cut-to-length and whole tree logging. Timberjack was a subsidiary of John Deere from 2000 to 2006. As of June, 2006, at the forestry fair "Florence Wood", the Timberjack product line was discontinued, and John Deere, its parent company, became the largest single brand of forestry equipment.

The Adventure Group

  • CA-BC-ADV-001
  • Corporate body
  • 2000s-

The Adventure Group is an excursion operator owned by Joey Houssian. The company operates on Cougar Mountain, offering outdoor activities including snowmobiling, RZR tours, snowshoeing, ziplining, and treetop adventures.

Tasman Helicopters

  • CA-BC-TAS-001
  • Corporate body
  • [fl. 1990s?-]

Tasman Helicopters is a helicopter chartering company based in Delta, BC. The company offers helicopter services to government and private industries, and it has held international contracts in Afghanistan, Angola, Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, and the United States.

SnowSports Industries America (SIA)

  • US-VA-SKI-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1954-

SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is a non-profit, North American, member-owned trade association representing suppliers of consumer snow sports with constituents in the retailer, rep and resort communities. SIA provides programs, services, and information that will assist members in improving their business operations. SIA was founded in McLean, VA in 1954 and is now based in Park City, UT. It once merged with the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), but this merger was dissolved in 1995. SIA delivers education, data/research, support, marketing products, government affairs representation, services, and programs. Through SIA membership, brands, destinations, retailers, service providers, and non-profits have resources to solve business problems, adapt to changing pressures, and grow. SIA and its members spot trends that matter, facilitate an industry-wide strategy, and innovate to ensure the winter outdoors thrives for future generations.

Skyways Services Ltd.

  • CA-MB-SKY-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1947-1968

Skyways Services Ltd. was a pioneering Canadian helicopter charter company based in Winnipeg, MB and headed by H. R. Drummond. Founded in 1947, Skyways purchased three Bell 47B-3 helicopters in a deal that included the teaching of two ex-RCAF pilots in a helicopter training school operated by Bell in the United States. Although those two pilots were
the first Canadians to be trained for crop dusting using helicopters, they did as much, or more, timber-cruising and power line surveying as they did crop dusting. Late in the 1940s, the Province of New Brunswick was experiencing a severe attack of the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) and was calling for help. Skyway sent a fleet of five Stearman helicopters to the Maritime provinces each spring for several years on a budworm contract. They usually returned to British Columbia before the end of June to be ready for the forest fire season. In 1948, Skyways Services Ltd., one of only three Canadian commercial helicopter operators at the time, shipped one of their helicopters to Vancouver to be leased by Aero Surveys Ltd., which logged the first recorded occurrence of a helicopter being used to airlift skiers into the mountains (Vancouver to Grouse Mountain). Although trials took place for this route, helicopters were never used on a commercially for heli-skiing at Grouse Mountain. At its peak, Skyways employed nearly 100 people for a fleet of 70 aircraft. The business was thriving, and they had a pilot training school and a charter service, plus an airplane overhaul and maintenance service. In 1968, Skyways went bankrupt and was sold to Okanagan Air Services, as it was plagued by accidents and a lack of contracts.

Skunk Cabbage Revue

  • CA-BC-SCR-001
  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1977-2017

Skunk Cabbage Revue was a band which played at the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp in 1977 and at the Whistler Answer's 40-year-anniversary party in 2017.

Ski-Doo

  • CA-QC-SKI-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1959-

Ski-Doo is a Canadian snowmobile brand manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products (originally Bombardier Inc. before the spin-off). Ski-Doo also has its own range of snowmobile suits. The first ever Ski-Doo was launched in 1959 as a new invention created by Joseph Armand Bombardier. The original name was Ski-Dog, but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure changed the name Ski-Dog to Ski-Doo. The first Ski-Doos found customers with missionaries, trappers, prospectors, land surveyors, and others who need to travel in snowy, remote areas. The largest success for the snowmobile came from sport enthusiasts, a market that opened the door to massive production of snowmobiles. This popularity led to skidoo (sometimes ski-doo), with the derived verb skidooing (or ski-dooing), becoming the traditional generic term for snowmobile in much of Canada. In early 2016, Ski-Doo announced that they were releasing an all-new line of engine/chassis fusion snowmobiles, most of which would be sporting two-stroke engines with 800cc motors that were specifically designed for the newer snowmobiles. The company then announced that their new line of model year 2017 snowmobiles would feature an 850cc motor known as the Rotax 850 E-Tec. The motor was redesigned with a new chassis, making the snowmobile both more agile and more responsive. Ski-Doo named this newer chassis/motor combination "Gen-4" and released it in several different models, such as the Summit, MXZ, and Renegade.

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