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Daily Archives: 20 July 2016
Red Hot Chili Peppers at FEQ: plenty of heat but no fire
The conditions were ideal for what should have been the crown jewel of this year’s Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ) line-up. The crushing heat and thunderstorms of the day before …
John Neilson celebrates his 240th birthday!
There was a very special birthday party in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier on Sunday, July 17. The Honourable John Neilson turned 240 years old! As you may know from previous QCT articles, …
“Prairie boy” recruits newcomers with expats blog
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph (QCT) is proud to announce that one of its own, general manager Taylor Ireland, is working on a blog project with Québec en Tête (Quebec First) called …
A prairie boy’s take on life in Quebec City
This blog entry first appeared on quebecentete.com May 6, 2016. People often ask me how I found myself living in Quebec City, and more particularly, as a successful entrepreneur in …
Catching up on the interim
Where was I? The last such column, dated September 20, 2006, was about the debate over where Lord Stanley first made the speech promising a trophy for hockey supremacy. Was …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1866 The Morning Chronicle Statistics recently published show that thirty million bottles of champagne are annually produced in France and are thus apportioned: Africa 1,000,000; Spain and Portugal 200,000; Italy …
The story behind Nelles Street
Rue Nelles was named in honour of Admiral Percy Walker Nelles (1892-1951), who was born in Brantford Ontario. In 1929, Nelles was appointed commanding officer of HMS Dragon and two …
John Neilson tours Pine River
The Shannon Heritage Council and Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Settlement Days joined together on Saturday, July 16, for a tour of Pine River, the territory that, some 50 years ago, was expropriated in …
A “Ferry Crowded House” at Festival d’Été
There was a certain familiarity to Neil Finn’s stage manner, when the lead singer of the Australian/New Zealand group Crowded House opened the night’s performances on Friday, July 15, on …