Dave Gunning brings folk to Quebec City
It was an intimate afternoon at the Royal Dalhousie Condos where award-winning folk artist Dave Gunning performed for a group of 25 friends and fans. Having won awards such as …
Jean Vanier awarded the 2015 Templeton Prize
The John Templeton Foundation recently announced that Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche communities around the world, is to receive this year’s Templeton Prize at an award ceremony in London on …
Peter Bernard McEniry
1934- 2015 Peter passed away peacefully at the age of 81, at Saint Brigid’s home in Quebec City on March 25. Son of the late Bertha Brochu and the late …
“Slaínté!” at the first St. Patrick’s Day Festibière
Welcome to Quebec City’s first St. Patrick’s Day Festibière,” said general director Sébastien Huot. From March 26 to 28, with a pint glass in one hand and beer tokens in …
News Digest March 25 2015
Issue March 25, 2015 English News Serving Quebec City since 1764 since 1764, North America’s Oldest Newspaper *TM using the most advanced news distribution method in over 246 …
Media, language and Quebec discussed at Morrin Centre
Discussions about Quebec’s past, present, future, and the media that have reported on all of them, took place at the Morrin Centre last Saturday. Journalists from Quebec, Ontario and New …
Lá Fhéile Pádraig! – Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
On March 17, St. Patrick’s Parish invited members of the community to the annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner held in McMahon Hall following the mass at the church on Avenue …
QAC takes a crack at theatre of the absurd
A mysterious troupe of travelling thespians interrupts the reverie of two hapless travellers endlessly spinning coins as if chance could influence their fate. So begins the twisted, multi-layered journey of Tom …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1865 The Morning Chronicle It is with regret we have again to record one of these disastrous conflagrations which within the last few years have rendered the name …
The story behind Rue Gregg
Rue Gregg is a pretty, residential street lined with trees on the edge of Sillery in Sainte-Foy, just south of Boulevard Laurier. It is named after the Honourable Brigadier Milton …