MUSEUM OF INGENUITY J ARMAND BOMBARDIER - Key Persons

Joseph-Armand Bombardier's ingenuity and individual excellence were born of a true collective strength that, over the years, led to the creation of the Bombardier and BRP companies, now global icons of the transport industry. The Museum of Ingenuity J. Armand Bombardier showcases the legacy that this famous inventor left for his successors through the innovations, trades and professions, and flagship products offered today by Bombardier and BRP. Joseph-Armand Bombardier is especially interested in the forest and forestry. He has already developed vehicles specifically for transporting wood, but he foresees other mechanized applications that will improve productivity. The machines he envisions can fell trees, remove their branches, cut lengths, load the logs onto the transport vehicle platform, and chip branches. Two of these machines, the VFB skidder and the BPU delimber, are launched and patented. Joseph-Armand Bombardier would only see the earliest signs of the phenomenal popularity of his snowmobile. His death on February 18, 1964 at the age of 56 ends a full and happy life. With his departure, the world loses an ingenious inventor and exceptional entrepreneur. In a moving letter to his children, he encourages them to pursue his work. The success of Bombardier Inc. and the humanitarian and social mission fulfilled by the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation show he had every reason to have confidence in them. Below is the Bombardier genealogy - father to son - from the first in Canada until Joseph-Armand Bombardier, according to their wedding date. Joseph-Armand Bombardier has received countless posthumous testimonies of respect, admiration, and recognition from various associations, institutions or organizations wishing to pay tribute to the ingenuity of the man and his work.