Our new Liberal Government is keeping its election promises of a year ago by implementing a major restructuring of its activities. This is in order to correct the financial imbalances …
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Memorials and Things of Fame
1865 The Morning Chronicle A Montreal journal has given currency to a rumor that the Chaudière Bridge is unsafe. We have made enquiries and find that the rumor arose from the …
STREET VIEWS: The story behind Place George-V
Place George-V and the streets on its east and west sides, located in front of the Armoury on Grande Allée, were named after King George V (1865-1936). He was King …
Meet the QCT’s newest photojournalist, Rachel Collet
Rachel Collet is a freelance photographer from Sarasota, Florida, who recently relocated to picturesque Quebec City to be with family. She has a background in paralegal studies; however, after finishing …
Spectacular concert launches 125th season of Club musical
The Club musical de Québec, Canada’s oldest classical music society, will mark 125 years in 2016. To celebrate this milestone anniversary, artistic director Marie Fortin unveiled the 2015-2016 program on …
2014 – a very good year for LHSQ and Morrin Centre
The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (LHSQ) held its 191st annual general meeting on March 30. Twenty-seven members attended the meeting, which was held in College Hall at the …
Champlain–St. Lawrence students hold annual fashion show
Fashionistas from Champlain-St. Lawrence took over the Hôtel le Concorde ballroom last Friday evening. The organizing team stayed true to the city’s reputation as a centre for the fashion-conscious. The …
The luck o’ the Irish at the Pub St-Patrick
Well, I thought we were finished with “Irish” month, but this story about the owner of a certain “green” pub in the Old Town deserves to be told. While searching …
Choeur Les Rhapsodes shines again
On Saturday, March 28, the Rhapsodes gave a concert that, for me, summed up the Easter story the way Handel’s Messiah tells the life story of Christ. Music lovers at …
Anzac Day Centenary service in Ottawa
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and the soldiers in those forces became known as Anzacs. Early on the morning of April 25, 1915, during the First …