Nancy was born in Ottawa, Canada on May 11, 1943. Her father, Robert Greene was a young engineer working for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company in Kimberley, BC and was loaned to the government during the second world war.  Both parents had grown up in the Kimberley area and were avid skiers. Her mother Helen raced in the Canadian Championships in Banff in 1939.  After the war, the family moved back to the Kootenays and settled in Rossland, BC where her parents became founding members of the Red Mountain Ski Club which build the second chairlift in Canada in 1947.  Nancy and her five siblings grew up skiing and racing on Red Mountain.  Her older sister, Elizabeth was a Canadian Junior Champion and a member of the 1960 Olympic Ski Team.

Following Nancy’s retirement from ski racing after the 1968 Olympics, she spent a year in Toronto where she was guided into a successful promotional career by a few advisors who became lifelong friends.  In spite of a hectic promotional schedule, Nancy stayed in touch with the National Ski Team and with its new head coach and program director, Al Raine, who had grown up in British Columbia. They fell in love, were soon married and twin sons were born in Montreal in January 1970. 

Al and Nancy shared a passion for skiing, and both believed in the potential for ski tourism in British Columbia. With both of them travelling often, they re-located to Burnaby next door to Al’s parents who were a big help to the young couple.  Al commuted between Burnaby, the ski racing circuit and Ottawa where the team’s office was located.  After the 1972 Olympics, Al retired from his duties with the national team and focused on developing BC’s ski resort potential. This eventually lead to being contracted by the BC government to write a new Commercial Alpine Ski Policy for the province. When Whistler became a municipality in 1975, Al was appointed to represent the provincial government on the municipal council, and was in charge of the planning and finance committees.  The family moved to Whistler when a school was opened in 1976 with Nancy being the School Trustee at the time.

In 1982 when an economic downturn stifled growth at Whistler, the Raines decided to take a sabbatical and spend a year in Switzerland.  It was an opportunity for their sons to go to a local French speaking school, and for Al and Nancy to teach in the ski school and to learn more about the operation of successful mountain tourism in Europe.  They wound up staying two years, then returned to Whistler where they built and operated a successful hotel, Nancy Greene’s Olympic Lodge.

In 1995, having sold their hotel several years earlier, the Raines re-located to the newly developing Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops, BC.  There they built a condominium hotel, one of the first in the new Sun Peaks Village. Nancy became the Director of Skiing for the resort, helping with promotion, marketing and guest relation while Al looked after the hotel operation. 

In 2009 Nancy was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and served until 2018, commuting to Ottawa 28 weeks of the year, skiing weekends and holidays. As the community grew a municipality was established in July 2010 and Al was elected as its first mayor.  He served as its mayor until just prior to passing away in December  2024. He had been diagnosed with ALS, but stayed active and engaged almost to the end.

Nancy continues to live at Sun Peaks, is active in community life and skis almost daily in the winter. One son and two grandsons live in Vernon and her other son lives in Whistler so they meet up often. Nancy can be booked for private ski sessions through the Sun Peaks Sports School.