Volunteer Spotlight

This year’s OFSC Volunteer Recognition awards ceremony acknowledged and celebrated all the hard-working volunteers from the 2024-25 season.

We are thrilled to announce that an OFSC volunteer has won the Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations (CCSO) Brenda Welsh Outstanding Woman in Snowmobiling award! This award is presented to a female volunteer in recognition of their contributions in one or more of the following areas: rider experience, volunteer culture, initiatives and/or partnerships.

What does your Ontario Snowmobile Trail Permit get you and how does that final product “The White Ribbon” everyone wants get there? It starts long before the snow flies. Some trails take weeks, months or even years of work to be ready to groom and open. Even the trails that have been a part of […]

We are thrilled to announce that an OFSC volunteer has won the Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations (CCSO) Outstanding Excellence Award for Tourism! The award is presented to an individual or organization in recognition of their efforts to implement an initiative that increases participation from snowmobilers and/or non-snowmobilers within a region. And John is certainly […]

A big thank you to all of this year’s supporters. AGM Vendors Silver Level Bronze Level AGM & Convention Supporters Silver Level Bronze Level Friend Level Volunteer Recognition Supporters Platinum Level Gold Level Silver Level Bronze Level Friend Level  

This year’s OFSC Volunteer Recognition awards ceremony acknowledged and celebrated all the hard-working volunteers from the 2023-24 season. Join us in congratulating this year’s award winners! Words of Thanks From Supporters On behalf of everyone at Kimpex, we would like to extend our warmest thanks to all the volunteers of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile […]

Meet Makaila! Makaila has loved snowmobiling in Ontario her entire life and now shares that with others as a volunteer with the Opeongo Snowbirds Snowmobile Club! So much so that she introduced her husband, Keegan, into the snowmobiling world which he has been hooked on for the past 10 years. They both love volunteering, with […]

  “A volunteer is a person who willingly takes part in an endeavour or undertakes a task with no expectation of compensation.”   (April 4, 2024 – Barrie, ON): Millions and millions of moments. This represents the accumulated time donated by tens of thousands of club volunteers to building 30,000 kilometres of recreational snowmobile trails […]

Dorothy, a longtime lover of snowmobiling, is a proud volunteer with the Maple Leaf Snow Skimmers. Dorothy was first introduced to snowmobiling at the age of 13, when Santa gifted her and her brother an Alouette snowmobile - that’s the sled with square wheels! Fast forward some years down the road, Dorothy has raised her […]

There is a special Ottawa Valley couple who have enjoyed and continue to enjoy a wonderful life filled with family, faith, hard work and lots of fun filled activities.  Snowmobiling is an activity that Osceola’s Terry and Diane Coulas got “hooked on” in the early years of their marriage and continue to enjoy more than […]

The winter of 2024 in Ontario has been exceptional for two main reasons. One is exceptionally bad, the other exceptionally good. As every snowmobiler knows, the bad is that we’ve suffered the worst season in recent memory. Abnormally unreliable snow and temperatures have caused more snowmobiles to stay parked than to get ridden. The OFSC […]

We spoke with a well known and long-standing volunteer, Nunzio, about his love of snowmobiling, how it all began for him and his experiences as a volunteer. Here’s what he had to say… It all started when Nunzio’s father purchased sleds in the late 80s. They had a cottage in Haliburton where he, his father, […]