Bernard Cournoyer lived from 1939 until July 2008. For the past twenty years, Bernard promoted the sport of snowmobiling in the Mauricie Region of Quebec Canada. Bernard travelled to all the snowmobile trade shows in the USA to promote his home province, and the excellence in snowmobile trail development in his region. Over the years, he built a snowmobiler clientelle for his own motel, but when he had no accommodations left to rent out, he turned to helping others with his overflow clients. He would explain to the new motel owner, the long list of snowmobiler's needs, and help him to prepare for the winter season. Bernard would help secure the parking lots against snowmobile theft, procure snowmobile trail passes for the motel, and explain that the owners would have to start sending out honest trail and weather reports over the Internet. With no thought to his own pocketbook, Bernard would often go to great lengths to equip the motel owner for the winter. For many years, Bernard also volounteered in many positions on the snowmobile club executive, and did much of the grunt work himself, such as getting rights of passage from land owners, installing proper signage so snowmobilers wouldn't get lost in the snow, and even driving the groomer if needed, to ensure smooth trails. Bernard's dream was to have all the motels and hotels in Quebec, equiped with good information and educated as to the needs of visiting English speaking snowmobilers. His greatest accomplishment, was to communicate the need to secure snowmobiler, trucks, and trailers, from the real threat of snowmobile theft. He also helped me to get new sponsors to support my web site, zenwaiter.com. He helped me in many ways, since we met in 2000, when my life was threatened by a hostile motel owner in St-Zenon, who wanted to kill me for posting honest weather information on the Internet. Bernard's warnings to me may have saved my life. I will greatly miss the man, and I hope by doing this work, that in some small way, I will help preserve the memory of this terrific man, husband, and father. God bless you Bernie. Thanks for everything you did for mefor almost ten years. I miss you buddy. Love you. Zen