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It was supposed to be the 'Ski-Dog' because it was designed to replace the dogsled, but a brochure typo resulted in the world-famous brand 'Ski-Doo'. This all started with mechanically-gifted Joseph-Armand Bombardier who was born in rural Valcourt, Quebec in 1907. By 15 he created his first prototype snow machine from an Model T Ford, the frame of a sleigh and a wooden airplane propeller. In 1934 he lost his two-year-old son to an appendicitis attack when he couldn't get him to a hospital during a snow storm. That tradegy added to his motivation, and the first snowmobiles came out of his auto repair shop by 1937. By 1959 the heavy, multi-passenger vehicles were replaced by his lighter two-man Ski-Doo, which launched a new 'sport'

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