Reflections by Jasey’s mother, Micheline
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February 2001
“In retrospect, that which first comes to mind about Jasey-Jay is his love and respect for nature, people and animals. A dream that Jasey shares with Manon, his companion of eight
years, is to have a farm to grow trees and to keep animals and pets.
As a baby Jasey was quiet and playful. He was a real little angel, but anything serious had to be looked at as a game. Serious was for the others, fun and funny was for Jasey.
Jasey was brought up in a bilingual environment but he and his brother Jayme only ever spoke French at home. Still today, even though we might address them in English, both Jayme and Jasey
would only reply to us in French. They are, however, completely bilingual. Jasey’s elementary schooling at Val-David was in French, while his secondary and college studies (Fine Arts
and Graphic Arts) were completed in English.
As a child, when Jasey would accompany us on short cross-country ski excursions or walks in the forest to pick up the annual Christmas tree in our private forest, Jasey nearly always had
to be carried back. His brother Jayme would always want to carry or drag the tree, and Jasey would want to be carried. Jasey would invariably pretend to fall, and then he would make a
big deal of not being able to get up. He would just lay and play in the snow until he was picked up. We, the adults, were usually exhausted from these short outings on skis or snowshoes.
Jayme and the dogs were hardly satisfied with these little excursions but we all had lots of laughs and lots of fun.
At seven years old, alpine skiing did not come easy either. It required a bit of coaxing. One day I took Jasey over to Vallée Blue ski area in Val-David, and on that beautiful sunny
spring day we got a ski instructor dressed as a clown. That was great and did the trick! Now he was a skier! Later for snowboarding Jasey needed convincing again, but this time from his
brother. Jayme had been riding for a winter already by the time he convinced Jasey to try it. As soon as Jasey stepped on a snowboard he knew it was for him: that was FUN! Jasey shared
his learning experiences with his good friend and eventual champion freestyle snowboarder, Brett Carpentier. A year later, racing seemed to be a very challenging direction to take, and
it still is today.
Jasey is left- handed and rides facing to the left side, and within the industry this is known as “Goofy- Footed.” This suits Jasey to the letter, because he loves to do goofy
things to make his friends and family laugh and be happy.”
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