Valley View Rd
West Dover VT
1970

The snowmobile evolved quite a bit throughout the 1920s thanks primarily to two major players — Carl Eliason and Joseph-Armand Bombardier. Bombardier, working out of Canada, tinkered with motorized sleds for many years until he developed the country's first oversnow vehicle in 1922.

Snowmobiling has been a part of the Canadian landscape since New Year's Eve 1922, when a 15-year-old named Joseph-Armand Bombardier took his first “oversnow” vehicle for a test ride on the streets of Valcourt, Quebec.

Québécois mechanic Joseph-Armand Bombardier made the first snowmobile in 1935. Today, there are more than 600,000 registered snowmobiles in Canada. They are used for transportation, recreation, hunting and trapping, especially in rural areas and the North. A snowmobile is an automotive vehicle for travel on snow.



West Dover is a village in the central part of Dover, Vermont. The village center, located on Vermont Route 100 at Cross Town and Valley View Roads, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as the West Dover Historic District.