Two servals (the smallest of the large wild cats of Africa) were recently captured and removed from a home in Beauport. In Quebec province it is illegal to keep exotic …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
QCT Print Edition – August 20 2014
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Quebec, September 18th, 2024
It’s Time We Face The Difference Between Canadianness And The Canadian State Quebec City, 20 August 2024: In a week in which coverage of the independence campaign has been dominated by …
Jeffery Hale Friends’ Foundation Annual Golf Tournament
The JefferyHale Friends’ Foundation will be returning to the Club de Golf Cap-Rouge forour 24th Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament on Thursday, September11th. The day of golf will be followed by …
“Giant” parade opens Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
Colossal wooden marionettes representing the founders of New France towered over the crowds lining Grande Allée and Rue Saint-Louis as the parade inaugurating the 2014 Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France moved …
The stories behind the names of Quebec City streets Rue Bishop
Bishop Street is named for William Avery Bishop (1894-1956) born in Owen Sound, Ontario. This flamboyant man, nicknamed “Billy” Bishop, was a famous First World War flying ace. He was …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864 The Morning Chronicle “Le Canadien” of last evening says that it had learned by telegraphic dispatch that the Reformatory at St. Vincent de Paul*, near Montreal, had been entirely …
Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France in Place Royale PHOTOS BY Kasia Borkowska
Spellbinding costumes literally stopped pedestrian traffic in the Lower Town. A young apprentice learns the craft of stone-cutting at the Tailleurs de Pierre workshop. The stonecutters were hard at …
100th anniversary of the first expropriation in the Hamlet of Valcartier
On Sunday, August 3, descendants of original pioneer families who toiled for a century and more to create farms from wilderness where Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Valcartier now stands, met …