Camp Fortune Ski Club (CFSC) is a non-profit ski racing club dedicated to providing high quality ski race development programs to children aged 7-19 years. The club was formed in summer 2006 by amalgamation of the Ottawa Ski Club and Fortune Ski Academy and continues the ski racing tradition, which started in 1910 when the Ottawa Ski Club was formed.

We offer a complete range of alpine racing programs, Our full time Program Race Director with his seasoned coaching staff will offer your young athlete a complete range of ski development and race training programs, including: Nancy Greene Ski League (7 to 13 years) and Competitive racing programs for racers aged 9 to 18. Our program are suitable for skiers who want to become involved in weekend racing and those who want to race competitively and dream of joining Provincial and National Ski Teams.

We are a non-profit organization. All your dollars are channelled towards the skills development and professional coaching. Parents are expected to volunteer their time to stage races and run everyday administration of the club.

We cater to both Ontario and Quebec skiers.Our Academie Ste-Marie is opened to skiers wishing to represent Quebec. We strive to provide bilingual services to our membership. 

We are not a ski school. Children joining Nancy Greene Ski League are expected to be comfortable with the basic skiing techniques on the green terrain. Majority of our first year Nancy Greeners are graduates of Camp Fortune Ski School.

Excerpts from KEN READ'S WHITE CIRCUS

'As I learned at Camp Fortune the size of the hill is not the most important element in the development of a racer. What is important? Skiing must be enjoyed for what it is. An enthusiastic program in which participants enjoy lots of camaraderie and bonhomie, can go a long way towards making up any shortcomings in vertical drop.'

'They may not have had the mountains of Europe or the North American West, but Camp Fortune and the Ottawa Ski Club had a structured racing organization which involved hundreds of kids ...... the kids at Fortune were divided so that no child ever felt at a disadvantage because of his weight. Best of all I got to know a bunch of kids who loved to bomb down the hill. We built bumps and executed spread-eagles in masses of 10 to 15 kids. We chased one another everywhere. To test our mettle, we'd schuss slalom, ..... out of such foolishness are formed the skiers, who become racers and the racers who become champions.'

'The Fortune program was varied. We were not obliged to concentrate solely on Alpine skiing, but we were involved in a regime which also included ski jumping, slalom, downhill and cross-country.'

'For a time this small club in the Gatineau Hills may have run the best racing system in Canada. It turned out racers such as Currie Chapman, who now coaches the women's team, and the Clifford sisters, world champion Betsy, and former national team member, Susan.'

'Mr. Graves* and Mr. Livingstone* (Fred and Doug were always "Mister" to this 10 year old) were my first real coaches. They encouraged me alot about the rudiments of the sport, but most of all they made skiing fun. The gratitude of a 10 yr old is fleeting. Their reward for so many weekends with frozen hands and feet was to see my beaming face and then my back as I took off down the hill.'

*parent volunteers with the club