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Daily Archives: 3 July 2013
Canada Day celebrations in Quebec City
Monday, July 1, was a beautiful, sunny day and it certainly brought out lots of people to celebrate Canada’s 146th birthday in style....
Irish visitors to Quebec City and Grosse Île
A group of nine Irish teenagers and their supervisors, Caroilin Callery and Maggie Gallagher, were in Quebec City this past week, as part of the Year of the Gathering activities …
Quebec High School rugby football club in 1904
The QCT recently received an interesting photo and information about a long-ago school rugby club in Quebec City. It came from Andrew Caddell, who grew up in Montreal West. Caddell …
Zombies walk in the sunshine for Opération Enfant Soleil
Something surprising, to say the least, happened in the Old Town on Saturday. There was a Zombie Parade – in broad daylight! It started from Place d’Youville, and about a …
Hillary’s Ride for Mental Health is crossing Canada
In May of 2003, Hillary Werthmann, who suffered from mental illness, took her life with a drug overdose. She was 20 years old. Her father, Bill Werthmann, of Edmonton, Alberta, …
Paul McCartney returns to conquer the Plains of Abraham
He conquered the Plains in 2008 during the celebrations of Quebec City’s 400th birthday, and Sir Paul McCartney is coming back to entertain his fans again on Tuesday, July 23, …
Peachland’s new Fire Chief originally from Stoneham
Dennis Craig, a former resident of Stoneham, Quebec, was recently appointed the new fire chief of Peachland, a municipality of about 5,000 on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, British …
The curtain rises on Paris on stage: 1889-1914
Its size, detail and historical symbolism make this painting priceless! This is Les Halles, the masterly canvas painted in 1895 by Léon Lhermitte. Originally hung in the Hôtel de Ville …