Imagine soaring like an eagle high above the canyon of the raging Sainte-Anne River. Since the inauguration of the Air Canyon zipline, you too can “fly like an eagle” while …
Daily Archives: 13 June 2017
Neighbours Day celebrated in Old Quebec
The sun was out and so were the neighbours and tourists in Old Quebec on June 10. La Maison de la Littérature and the Morrin Centre held a street party …
What’s the harm in Dr. Couillard reopening Constitution?
One assumes that a brain surgeon, before he or she zips open a patient’s skull, has a pretty precise idea of how to perform the procedure and, most importantly, why …
The making of The Philanthropist: Part I
Curious as to how this multimedia theatre event came to be, the QCT recently met with Jeffery Hale Community Partners foundations’ director Mike Boden, who created the original work. Boden …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle The Montreal Gazette has the following: Montreal is the city of immense pretentions, proportionate emulation and its natural results, enormous taxation and excessive envy and jealousy. …
The story behind Rue du Tracel
This street is named after the large train trestle (tracel in French) bridge that spans the Cap-Rouge River valley at the entrance of the Plage Jacques-Cartier. The engineers who created …
What if… someone wrote a musical about writing a musical?
J.P. Chartier composed, wrote, composed, directed, played and performed in What if…? The Musical, which was presented at La Maison Jaune last weekend. There are four more performances scheduled for …
Library officially renamed Bibliothèque Claire Martin
After seven months of renovations, the library in the former St. Matthew’s Anglican Church on Rue Saint-Jean was officially reopened with a brand-new look and a new name. Now known …
Sometimes miracles do happen when researching in the QCT
Several years ago Amanda Stuart’s husband Googled “Quebec City newspaper” and, lo and behold, up popped the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph! Amanda was looking for information about her grandfather, Robert H. Nisbet, …
Canada 150: Wilfred T. Grenfell and St. Anthony, Newfoundland
Canada 150 is about more than celebrating this impressive milestone. It is about the people that made this country. In St. Anthony, Newfoundland, I discovered one of these people. When …