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Monthly Archives: April 2014
David Bircher’s portraits of Quebec City
David Bircher has published his first book, Québec Portrait, A photographic monograph, which shows the changing face of Quebec City between 1965 and 1980. The large-format bilingual book contains 42 …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864 The Morning Chronicle Where is it? We find the following paragraph going the rounds of our contemporaries. We should like to know where the rich “placer” therein alluded to, …
Where’s the fire?
The Cathedral Close. Five o’clock on a cloudless Easter morning. Bishop Dennis Drainville, Dean Christian Schreiner and 36 parishioners have gathered around a small fire, awaiting the sunrise service. All …
Quebec heritage group wins prestigious digital mapping award
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) is delighted to announce that its website ‘Mapping the Mosaic’ has just been awarded first prize by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) …
A long road to glory for the QHS annual fashion show
The annual student fashion show at Quebec High School took audience members on a journey around the world, and marked the end of a more personal journey for many of …
ABAM = Active Body, Active Mind
Grade 5 and 6 students of Ste-Foy Elementary School learned the rudiments of curling at the Jacques Cartier Curling Club last Friday. This hallowed curling club, which has existed since …
St. Pat’s students collect change for a change in Kenya
A little change made a big difference for the students of St. Patrick’s High School and would-be students in the village of Salabwek, in Kenya, where the Quebec City students …
James Blunt at the Colisée Pepsi: a perfect landing
Popular British soft rock musician James Blunt appeared before some 4,500 fans at the Colisée Pepsi last Friday evening to promote Moon Landing, his fourth album. The Moon Landing tour …
Trash Cabaret night at SLC
The Champlain-St. Lawrence Campus cafeteria metamorphosed into a cabaret theatre last Saturday evening, complete with lighting, decor, and candle-lit tables. Student band What the Heck presented the 1900s burlesque-inspired Trash …