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 The snowmobile was invented here in Quebec Canada by Joseph-Armand Bombardier. He was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could "float on snow." In 1937, he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec. Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions. In 1937, Bombardier sold 12 snowmobiles—named the B7 and, in 1942, created l'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.
 Since then this new vehicle never stopped gaining in popularity. Clubs were created gathering thousands of snowmobilers looking to enjoy an adventure on the snowy Canadian back country. Over the last decades the province of Quebec saw the construction of many thousands of kilometers of trails. We could estimate to 35 000 kilometers of official trails created, making the birthplace of the snowmobile the largest continuous network for snowmobile in the world.
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