History and Canadian Results
2018 Winter Olympic Games, Pyeong Chang, Korea
PyeongChang 2018 Canadian Olympic cross-country skiing team named
CANMORE (January 29, 2018) — Canada will field a cross-country skiing team mixed with loads of international experience along with youthful energy and drive for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. […]
Best Ever Canadian Olympic Results
Best Ever Canadian Olympic Placings Up to 2006 Distance Athlete Best Ever Placing Year 18/15 km (in 1992 changed to Day 2 of the Pursuit, with no best ever determination) […]
British Columbia’s Olympians
Tormod Mobraaten, third from the left, with Canadian Olympic Ski Team prior to sailing for Germany to attend the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen The first Olympic Winter Games were held […]
1928 Olympic Winter Games St. Moritz, Switzerland
Men Merritt Putnam William Thompson With three athletes and two support personnel selected two months prior to competition, Canada entered the Olympic cross country fray in 1928. After missing a […]
1932 Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid, USA
Men John Currie John Taylor Bud Clark Harry Pangman Walter Ryan Hubert Douglas Kaare Engstad Two months prior to the 3rd Winter Olympics Sigurd Lockeberg and Herman Smith-Johannsen, among others, […]
1936 Olympic Winter Games, Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany
Men Bud Clarke Willam Ball Tom Mobraten Karl Baadsvik Almost ten months prior to the IVth Winter Games, the Canadian Olympic Ski Committee selected eight men, most of whom would […]
1948 Winter Olympic Games, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Men Bill Irvin Tom Dennie After an absence of 12 years the international sporting movement got back on track in neutral Switzerland as familiar St. Moritz hosted a worldwide revived […]
1952 Olympic Winter Games, Oslo, Norway
Men Claude Richer Jacques Carbonneau The Winter Games finally headed to Norway, considered the traditional home of skiing, as capital city Oslo and its environs hosted the VIth Olympics. With […]
1956 Olympic Winter Games, Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy
Men Clarence Servold Irvin Servold Jacques Charland Three men carried Canada’s nordic hopes to the VIIth Olympic Winter Games and one came away with a cross country standard that remains […]
1988 Calgary Olympics: Canmore
Calgary Olympics: Canmore Venue History
History of the Canmore Nordic Centre Venue The 1988 Olympic Winter Games were awarded to Calgary on September 30th, 1981. Bragg Creek was the original venue for Nordic sports (cross […]
Calgary Olympics: Canmore Display
Below are some of the Olympic materials concerning the Nordic Venue at Canmore, Alberta
Canada’s Team: 1988
1988 Olympics, Calgary, Canada Canada was once again represented by a full team in 1988, with the races being held a 1 hour drive west of Calgary in the picturesque […]
2010 Vancouver Olympics: Callaghan Valley
2010 Torch Parade
The Torch on Skis The only segment where the Torch was carried on skis occurred on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at the Canmore Nordic Centre around 4:30 pm. A total […]