Something is up at the Holland Elementary School — clandestine meetings, men wearing fedoras, girls in risqué attire, and vaguely familiar melodies drifting down the hallways. Yes, rehearsals are well …
Monthly Archives: November 2011
News Digest for November 9, 2011
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Campaign at QHS
The month previously known as November will see a name change as “Movember” has officially hit Quebec High School. Movember is the term now used for the month-long prostate cancer …
Radio-Canada exhibit opens at the Musée de la Civilisation
HalmOn November 2, a familiar friend, CBC/Radio-Canada celebrated its 75th birthday. To honour 75 years of broadcasts and to show the important role media plays in the fabric of Quebec, …
Morrin Centre hosts Literary Feast
The Morrin Centre held its third annual fundraising dinner, the Literary Feast, on Thursday, November 3. Guests were welcomed into the library where they enjoyed champagne cocktails, while drinking in …
Q&A with Major Stéphane Briand on military life, Remembrance Day, and the treatment of soldiers in Quebec
On Remembrance Day, November 11, the country will come together, forming a figurative field of poppies to honour soldiers who have fallen or were injured in combat. Since most civilians …
“I remember . . . ”
Reflections on growing up in Quebec City during the Second World War with a brother facing an uncertain fate in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, two sisters serving overseas …
Service for fallen Search and Rescue soldier at Valcartier
By Marie WhiteOn November 5, Sergeant Janick Gilbert’s funeral was held in the chapel of the Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc Church on the Valcartier military base, and he was laid to rest in …
The Poppy and Remembrance
Every year, from the end of October to November 11, you will see members of the Royal Canadian Legion distributing poppies, that humble little red flower immortalized by John McCrae’s …
A World War I diary
Two years ago, the November 11, 2009, issue of the QC-T carried the story of my father, Kelso Roberts, as a prisoner of the Germans during the last eight months …