Le Relais is a ski mountain just 15 minutes from downtown Quebec City , Canada . It is the smallest of the four ski stations located near Quebec City with Mont Sainte-Anne , Stoneham and Le Massif .
6-460: Located in Lac-Beauport , Le Relais is a family station of excellence known for the surface quality of its tracks. Although not a destination resort, Le Relais provides a very good ski experience thanks to the skiable field which can be entirely snow-covered artificially. Moreover, all of the tracks are well illuminated attracting a lot of people for night skiing. Le Relais is also the home of
12-485: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lac-Beauport, Quebec Lac-Beauport is a town in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec , Canada , located on the eponymous Lake Beauport. It has a population of about 8,200 people, and lies about 25 kilometres north from downtown Quebec City . Lac-Beauport is the home of Le Relais ski centre. The municipality of Lac-Beauport surrounds
18-456: The Centre national acrobatique Yves Laroche (CNAYL), an aerial skiing center. The CNAYL has a water ramp making summer training possible. In summer Le Relais becomes an adventure center providing five high rope courses better known in the region as arbre en arbre . Le Relais was founded in 1936, but the idea of it came during the 1933-1934 winter. At that time, it was suggested to locate
24-462: The homonymous lake . It is bounded to the south by Quebec City , to the north and west by the united townships of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury and to the east by the municipality of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval . Located in the Laurentians massif, the municipality occupies the basin centered on the lake as well as the surrounding hills and mountains. Around 1820, a small cluster of homes was built on
30-675: The present site of the municipality, named Waterloo Settlement by the English immigrants after the Anglo-Prussian victory at Waterloo . In 1845, the Municipality of St-Dunstan was formed, named after the local parish of Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport. It was abolished in 1847, but reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport in 1855. In common use, it was only known as Lac-Beauport, prompting
36-575: The ski center on the Plains of Abraham but Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen , proposed another location : the Murphy mountain. The mountain of the actual site of Le Relais was then bought for the price of $ 1000. $ 8500 was raised to build a small lodge at the bottom of the mountain. Le Relais is known as the birthplace of skiing in Quebec City. This article about a ski area or resort
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