Snowmobile: Bombardier's Dream Machine

The true story of Joseph-Armand Bombardier's journey to invent the snowmobile. Joseph-Armand was a mechanical genius with the heart of an inventor. From the time he was fifteen, he pursued his dream of inventing a machine that would "float on snow." At a time when Canadian roads were unpaved and unplowed, he was determined to create a vehicle that could get snowbound people to church or school or the hospital during the winter. After Joseph-Armand saw firsthand that lives depended on the success of his invention, his singleminded determination to create a snow vehicle led to the realization of his dream. Photographs, courtesy of the J. Armand Bombardier Museum, show various snow vehicles invented by Bombardier, including the Ski-Doo® snowmobile.