Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lamoureux, Vlad
Parallel form(s) of name
- Lamoureux, Timothy "Vlad"
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Description area
Dates of existence
fl. 1980s-
History
Timothy "Vlad" Lamoureux is a heli-ski guide and firefighter in the Sea to Sky corridor. Vlad grew up in Midland, ON, where he attended Midland Secondary School. He studied forestry at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, ON. Vlad moved to BC in the 1980s. He is the lead guide for Whistler Heli-Skiing and has worked there since 1996. Vlad lives in Pemberton and serves as a BC Wildfire Service a provincial air attack officer there. In 2017, he received a BC Wildfire Service long-term service award from the BC Lieutenant Governor for working as a firefighter with the service for 25 years. Vlad is a CSGA Course Conductor and has been a Whistler Search and Rescue member since 2000. In 2018, Vlad's friend and fellow Whistler Heli-Skiing guide Lisa Korthal died in an avalanche while guiding a trip in the Coast Mountains outside of Pemberton. In an effort to continue her legacy, Vlad and Lisa's husband, Johnny "Foon" Chilton, spearheaded the creation of a bursary named in Korthals' honour. The bursary, administered through the Canadian Ski Guide Association, is offered to women looking to further their ski guiding careers. Vlad enjoys skiing in his free time.
Places
Midland, ON
Thunder Bay, ON
Whistler
Pemberton
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Heli-ski guide
Firefighter
Search and Rescue
Skiing
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Catalogued March 2023.
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Sources
1) Archival material
2) https://www.pemberton.ca/public/download/documents/46271
3) https://www.avalancheassociation.ca/members/?id=26717585
4) https://www.facebook.com/vlad.lamoureux
5) https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-lamoureux-1631b53a/?originalSubdomain=ca
6) https://www.gofundme.com/f/me2hkn-lisa-korthals-memorial-bursary
7) https://crystallinebackcountry.com/
8) https://www.flickr.com/photos/whistlerheliskiing/5454898297/in/photostream/
9) https://whistlersar.com/members/
10) https://www.powder.com/stories/gofundme-in-honor-of-avalanche-victim-to-fund-womens-heli-ski-guiding
11) http://docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/Response_Package_MOE-2019-92863.pdf
12) https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/courier-archive/news/whistler-blackcomb-to-name-run-in-memory-of-trailblazing-heli-ski-guide-3072328