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Title
Hostelling Tremblant Auberge jeunesse Youth hostel Tremblant
Description
The Association of Saint-Laurent Youth Hostels was created in 1938 by Mary Barclay of the Youth Hostel Association of Canada. Her mandate was to develop the youth hostelling movement in Québec and to affiliate it with the Canadian and International network. For nearly 20 years, this association developed thanks to the exceptional work of volunteers who were convinced that travel and inter-cultural encounters in a well supervised milieu represented a unique means of educating young people.
In 1957, John Charlow became the Association's first paid employee. However, he did not accept any remuneration until he had succeeded in sufficiently developing the youth hostelling movement in Québec. Thanks to his efforts, in three years the number of members grew from 600 to 6,000. Ten years after he was hired, he opened the first urban youth hostel in Canada : the Montréal Youth Hostel.
At the end of the 1970s, the name "Saint-Laurent Youth Hostels" was only associated with the Montréal Youth Hostel. Development of the youth hostelling movement in Québec became the responsibility of the "Fédération Québécoise de l'Ajisme" (Québec Federation of Hostelling) which merged in 1989 with the "Organisation pour le tourisme étudiant" (Student Tourism Organization) in Québec to become the "Regroupement pour le Tourisme Jeunesse" (Regroupment for Youth Tourism).
Contact
Administrative:
- Onyris
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- Montreal Quebec
- Canada H2W 1Z5
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- +1 (514) 847-8816
Registrant:
- Onyris
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- Montreal QC
- Canada H2T 2T5
