High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Two men named Fillion and Roy were attempting to get financial aid for a small home-operated fiberglass boat company in Thetford Mines, Quebec, in the winter of 1964. While being visited by a potential investor, the investor took interest to a small homemade snowmobile Roy had at his home. Fillion and Roy re-evaluated their decision to build boats, instead choosing to create a company to manufacture snowmobiles, which were only starting to gain popularity as a form of transportation through the initial efforts of companies like Bombardier, Polaris and Arctic Cat. A small partnership involving Fillion and Roy, along with two other investors, formed the first four employees of Sno-Jet.