Joseph-Armand Bombardier (
April 16,
1907 -
February 18,
1964) was a
Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of
Bombardier. He made his first
snowmobile prototype when he was 15 years old.Born into a large family of prosperous farmers and small shopkeepers in the small town of Valcourt, not too far from
Sherbrooke, southeast of
Montreal in the province of
Quebec. Bombardier's brothers were later to help him out in several aspects of running what would eventually become a large
mechanical engineering concern, leaving him free to concentrate on mechanical innovations and high-level corporate orientations. Later stillm,nm,bn,nm,bnm,m,nm,bn,nbmbm,bnm,bnm,mn,bn,nbm,bnm,mb,nm,bn,, his own sons and daughters were to be instrumental in making his company grow to international proportions.
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