Joanne Hewson

Joanne Hewson skied all three Alpine events at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics. In 1953 she became a ski instructor at the Mont Tremblant Ski School. She also coached the McGill University women’s ski team and co-founded the Ski Jay Ski School for girls with the Penguin Ski Club, the first female ski club in North American. Hewson became a top club golfer and was later chair of the Women’s Provincial Golf Association.

Hewson attended McGill University and Concordia University. She studied art at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at McGill, eventually receiving her BFA degree from Concordia. She was considered a talented landscape watercolorist. She later became a docent and fundraiser at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and did volunteer work with The Montreal General Hospital Foundation.