A digital version of Jeffery Hale Community Partners (JH Partners) annual report for 2016 – 2017 is now available for download or online viewing at wejh.ca. JH Partners is a community-based …
Daily Archives: 4 July 2017
Canada 150 celebrations in Quebec City
Fog, mist and rain couldn’t keep residents and visitors to Quebec City away from all the activities planned to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. We Canadians are tough, eh! The day …
“The little festival that could” turns 50!
The Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ) is celebrating 50 years of bringing the best musical talent in the world to the Old City – with the notable absence to date …
The making of The Philanthropist: Part 2
Ticket sales for the multimedia theatre production The Philanthropist are in full swing. In Part 1, readers learned about the origins of this project. The QCT continued its interview with …
James Allan named 2017 Scotsman of the Year
James Allan of Kinnear’s Mills was named the 2017 Scotsman of the Year by the Quebec Thistle Committee of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal during the Auld Alliance Awards …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle An evening contemporary says that on Sunday afternoon, a respectable, though some may say indiscreet married woman, in search of her husband, proceeded to a house …
Story behind Avenue du Zoo
Avenue du Zoo runs along the east side of the land that was once occupied by the Quebec Zoo which closed in 2006 after 75 years existence. In 1931, Hector …
Celebrating the birth of Canada at Wendake’s Pow Wow
It was a weekend full of celebrations in Wendake with the 52nd edition of the Huron-Wendat Nation’s International Pow Wow and the inauguration of the new permanent roof over the …
78th Fraser Highlanders open Musical Wednesdays
Musical Wednesdays, a series of 10 noon-hour summer concerts at Chalmers-Wesley United Church in Old Quebec, opened on June 28 with a program of bagpipe and drum music presented by …
Jackie Branion-Pelletier retires after 45 years at the Château
Here she comes!” whispered members of the staff lined up just inside the main entrance of the Château Frontenac last week. After being picked up at her home in the …