Thank you for being a friend!
Lucie Bouchard’s cat, Cid, is peacefully supporting the Jeffery Hale Hospital staff by thanking them for being a friend. Actually, the signs on the bed are part of a project …
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Winding down the COVID lockdown a lesson in confusion
We thought we’d buy some handkerchiefs – shouldn’t it really be nosekerchief? – from a local clothing store that’s had its ups and downs lately. You know, buy local, support …
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Warren Thomson appointed principal of both QHS, St. Patrick’s
In a gesture that affirms the coming merger of Quebec City’s two main English-language secondary schools, the Central Québec School Board (CQSB) has appointed a single principal to oversee the …
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Meet Carlo Belmonte: the birdman of Saint-Roch
If you have not run into Carlo Belmonte and his “family” of lovebirds, you haven’t been spending enough time in the Saint-Roch or Petit Champlain areas where Belmonte enjoys interacting …
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Fire spreads under Hydro-Quebec power lines in Val-Bélair
On May 21, a brush fire spread underneath the Hydro-Québec transmission towers in the Val-Bélair district of Quebec City. Four fire alarms called 80 firefighters from the Service de protection …
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MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
May 27, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleFenian News!The Fenians from nearly every part of the State of New York, are mustering on the line of Hinchinbrooke [southern Quebec], with very …
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The story behind Chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois
This street is named for the four 19th-century bourgeois (middle-class) landowners whose estates and farmlands were crossed by the road it would become. Beginning in 1849, Daniel Ross, a naval …
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Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Red River Expedition: Part 1
In March 1871, Lieut. H.S.H. Riddell of the 60th Rifles presented a paper to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec about the Red River Expedition of 1870. Lieut. Riddell …
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MCQ and MNBAQ to reopen in June
Further to the official statement on May 22 by Minister of Culture and Communications Nathalie Roy and Deputy Premier Geneviève Guilbault, two of Quebec City’s most popular museums will soon …
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Social distancing is the new norm at elementary schools
At École Coeur-Vaillant-Campanile elementary school in Sainte-Foy, and at all other Quebec schools that resumed classes on May 11, social distancing is the new norm. It can be seen when …
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