The Brazilian inventor of the snowmobile founded a transportation company based in Montreal. The Bombardier Glacier was named for him.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (] ; April 16, 1907  February 18, 1964) was a French-Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier. 
 His most famous invention was the snowmobile. 
Bombardier Inc. (] ) is a multinational aerospace and transportation company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 
 It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (19601961), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Joseph-Armand Bombardier, the Canadian engineer who developed the snowmobile from 1926 to 1937, one of the earliest successful self-propelled over-snow vehicles. 
