We often hear the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” but may not often stop to contemplate the origins of the phrase. However, a group of local sketch …
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Boutique opens in Wendake for Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
Quebec City’s Huron-Wendat village, Wendake, has had a shrine to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha for a long time. Now, with the advent of her sainthood in Rome this coming October by …
QCT Print Edition – July 18 2012
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News Digest for July 11, 2012
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Lionel Richie wows crowds at the Festival d’Éte
Crowds of adoring fans converged on the Plains of Abraham on Saturday evening as Soul, Rhythm & Blues and Country singer Lionel Richie and his five-piece band had people singing …
Son of a music legend charms Quebec audience
The Théâtre Impérial on St. Joseph Street was filled to capacity late Friday evening for Adam Cohen, one of the performers scheduled for the Festival d’Été. A crowd of less …
Small town 4th of July
I am a small town girl, from a sparsely populated rural area in the West. When my cousins or classmates talk about catching up on life, going back for a …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1862 The Morning Chronicle About two o’clock yesterday afternoon a rumor spread rapidly about the city to the effect that a shocking tragedy had just occurred in the Artillery Barracks …
Quebec City celebrates its 404th anniversary
Mayor Régis Labeaume and Jean Dorval, President of the Historical Society of Quebec, were accompanied by the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, for the traditional wreath-laying ceremony marking the 404th …