Carson said that the fact that Chouinard's horse shied probably saved him, as Chouinard was a splendid shooter

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

CalArts was originally formed as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute ( founded 1921 ) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music ( founded 1883 ).

Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties around the same time, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was also fatally ill.

It was through the will of Disney, who discovered and trained many of his studio artists at Chouinard ( including Mary Blair, Maurice Noble and some of the Nine Old Men, among others ), that the merger of the two institutions was coordinated.

In this period American watercolor ( and oil ) painting was often imitative of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but significant individualism flourished within " regional " styles of watercolor painting in the 1920s to 1940s, in particular the " Cleveland School " or " Ohio School " of painters centered around the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the " California Scene " painters, many of them associated with Hollywood animation studios or the Chouinard Art Institute ( now California Institute of the Arts ).

Guy Chouinard was the lone player to score 50 goals in one season.

Bob MacMillan, acquired in the Myre deal, became the first Flame other than Lysiak to lead the team in scoring in six years and, along with Guy Chouinard, was one of the first two Flames ' players to score 100 points in one season.

Martin was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Lumina ( née Chouinard ) and Joseph Philippe Ernest Martin.

Williams moved on to a short stint at The Chouinard Art Institute where he was branded an " illustrator " in a derogatory fashion.

Chouinard ’ s pitons quickly gained a reputation for quality, and Chouinard Equipment was born soon after in Ventura, California.

Black Diamond was founded on December 1, 1989, when the assets of Chouinard Equipment Ltd. were purchased by a group of former company employees led by current Black Diamond Equipment CEO Peter Metcalf, and a few outside investors.

One was written by Chouinard and Tom Frost ; another was by Doug Robinson titled " The Whole Natural Art of Protection ".

It was designed by Tom Frost and Yvon Chouinard in 1959, and manufactured by Chouinard Equipment in the 1960s.

Chouinard was the 28th overall pick in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft, following a successful junior career with the Quebec Remparts in which he was a regular at the age of 15.

Chouinard has also had a brilliant career ( more than 10 years ) coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, notably for the Victoriaville Tigres, Quebec Remparts, and Prince Edward Island Rocket and was enshrined in the QMJHL Hall of Fame in 2005.

Chouinard was nicknamed " Gramps " because he appeared much older than he really was.

Yvon Deschamps was the host, and appeared alongside Normand Chouinard, Normand Brathwaite, Pauline Martin and Michèle Deslauriers.

* 1961 North Face, IV 5. 7, First ascent by Yvon Chouinard, Fred Beckey and Dan Doody.

* Lost Arrow-designed by John Salathé and Yvon Chouinard, now made by Black Diamond, are a hot-forged, tapered piton that performs well in medium-size cracks.

The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 in Los Angeles, California, by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard ( 1879 – 1969 ).

As an early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock.

He was accompanied by Yvon Chouinard, Reg Lake, John Wasserman and Jackson Frischman.

This was followed by: the wildly overhanging Leaning Tower, also done with Denny and still one of the most popular big-wall routes in Yosemite ; the North Face of the ' Rostrum ' just outside Yosemite Valley, again with Denny ( a notoriously hard and spectacular later one-day testpiece as a free climb ); and the beautiful and isolated 2500 foot face of Mount Watkins across from Half Dome, done with Yvon Chouinard and Chuck Pratt ( with ' hard man ' Harding famously refusing water on the parched last days of the climb to save it for those doing the final leads ).

Longueuil failed to qualify for the playoffs in their next two seasons, but in returned to the playoffs in 1987 coached by Guy Chouinard.

FA by Yvon Chouinard, Dick Dorworth, Chris Jones, Lito Tejada-Flores and Douglas Tompkins ( all USA ).

He is not the only member of his family to play professional hockey ; he is the older brother of former minor-leaguer Jean Chouinard and the father of Eric Chouinard, who currently is in the Phoenix Coyotes organization.

In a bid to host the Memorial Cup in 2012, Durocher in 2010 added former NHL players Mike McPhee and Guy Chouinard, former NHL coach Pierre Creamer, and Michel Boucher to the hockey staff in consulting roles.

Words were exchanged, and Carson and Chouinard charged each other on horses while brandishing their weapons.

The professional relationship between Madame Chouinard and Walt Disney began in 1929 when Disney had no money and Madame Chouinard agreed to train his first animators on a pay-later basis.

He never forgot and over the years watched the Chouinard Art Institute grow into the finest art school on the West Coast.

* 1961 Beckey-Chouinard Route on South Howser Tower, Bugaboos, Canada with Yvon Chouinard and Dan Doody

After graduating from Stanford, he attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224.

An important milestone occurred with the 1972 Chouinard Equipment Catalog, which included two articles on environmental concerns and climbing gear.

Eric Chouinard ( born on July 8, 1980 ) is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( DEL ).

While helping his young widowed mother, Fay B. Stocking Radabaugh, to support the family with odd-jobs, Cromwell enrolled as a teenager in the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles on a scholarship.

In the early 1980s Squier did several headlining arena tours — most notably with Foreigner with a backup band that included Jeff Golub on guitar, Bobby Chouinard on drums, Alan St. Jon on keyboards and Doug Lubahn on bass.

Discharged from the US Navy in 1946, Spiegle enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles on the GI Bill.

Frost, Robbins, Pratt and Chouinard at the completion of the first ascent of the North America Wall on El Capitan in 1964.

In 1991, a new three-person lineup was formed — one that consisted of Louie Merlino on lead vocals, Mancuso on both bass and guitar and newcomer Bobby Chouinard on drums.

Two years later, in 1999, again on MTM Music and again working with producer Jim Vallance, the band could release their third CD called " The Grey Album ", where drummer Sammy Mangiamele replaced Bobby Chouinard, who could not finish his work on that album.

Sadly, drummer Bobby Chouinard died on March 8, 1997.