Newcomers meet community
By MARK CALZAVARA Voice of English-speaking Quebec (VEQ) welcomed 20-odd newcomers to the Quebec City region last Thursday, November 1, to learn more about their adopted home town. Participants started …
Robert and Paradis win at Central Québec
By MICHÈLE THIBEAU The first voters in line on Sunday at Central Québec School Board’s Val-Bélair polling station were Duncan Robert MacTaggart, 91, and Isabelle Paradis MacTaggart, who turned 87 …
Last Huron-Wendat Second World War Veterans gone
By MARIE WHITEThe last Huron-Wendat world war veterans are no more. Donat Siouï, Wendake’s last surviving Second World War vet, passed away last June. His brother, Patrick, had died in …
Scott’s rock a great story
I read with considerable pleasure Michèle Thibeau’s and Clive Meredith’s accounts of the Scott rock in QCT October 24. The beauty of the story comes through clearly and adds to …
Memorials and Thing of fame
Compiled by Catherine Mills Rouleau 1847 Operations on the Eye and Ear – DR. F.A. CADWELL, OCULIST AND AURIST, of Montreal, has arrived at Quebec, on Professional business, and taken …
Seniors housing project cautiously moves a step forward
The Holland Regional Development Corporation’s seniors’ housing project has moved one cautious step closer to reality. “We’ve received conditional approval,” explained Richard Walling, executive director of Holland Centre. “It’s an …
Louise Penny has done it again
By MICHELE THIBEAU Quebec’s own award-winning mystery writer Louise Penny has done it again with The Cruellest Month, her third tale of death and circumstance, set in the Eastern Townships, …
Quebec bridge reopened after military shell removed from area
Quebec bridge reopened after military shell removed from area Lawrence River.They say it is too early to know where the shell originated.The bridge was closed for about three hours....
Anglophones debate the place of religion in Quebec society
“There are three words that I think we should be using more in these discussions,” said community historian Lorraine O’Donnell during the Quebec City hearings of the Reasonable Accommodation Commission. …
Mystery solved! F. G. Scott’s rock comes to light
MNA for Jacques-Cartier Geoffrey Kelley, Clive Meredith and Marie Cantin of the National Battlefields Commission (NBC) traipsed through the Plains of Abraham in the rain on Tuesday afternoon to find …