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Canadian Facts and Trivia - THE PEOPLE AND THE HISTORY
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but the icons of winter recreation, snowmobiles and ski-doos, were invented in Canada.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says Joseph-Armand Bombardier was just 15 when he built and tested a prototype snowmobile in 1922. He developed the first true snowmobile in 1935, transforming winter travel in Canada forever. A smaller, lightweight version, the ancestor of today’s ski-doos, was first delivered in 1959.