Irish boys earn St. Pat’s High a regional basketball banner
The St. Patrick’s High School Fighting Irish capped a successful 2016-17 basketball season when they defeated the Donnacona Diables, 42-34, in the regional Bantam (Benjamin) C2 final, last Saturday, in …
Coralie Gagné wins the SLC Kick-Start grand prize
Six Champlain-St. Lawrence entrepreneurial students pitched their SLC Kick-Start proposals at the college on March 30. The students worked for a year under the supervision of Business teacher Karina Brassard. …
Spring thaw is prelude to Printemps de la musique
As warmer temperatures begin to thaw the city, the Conseil de la culture des régions de Québec et de Chaudière-Appalaches invite residents of Quebec City to enjoy Printemps de la …
Has Quebec become a distinctly boring society?
It has come to pass, it seems, that news media in the rest of Canada think Quebec is boring, plat. Save for the occasional “Quebec-bashing” piece in Maclean’s magazine, mainstream …
The Défilé de la Saint-Patrick swings into spring
The brilliant weather last Saturday certainly put a spring in everyone’s step, and the skirl of the bagpipes certainly put a bit of swing into spring. Everyone was Irish for …
Joshua Moreno makes it through the blind auditions of La Voix
Joshua Moreno, a talented 17-year-old Secondary 5 student at Quebec High School, made it past the blind auditions of La Voix, a popular French-language singing competition on TVA, during the …
The Royal Canadian Air Cadets 629 Squadron celebrates its 60th
The Royal Canadian Air Cadets 629 Kiwanis-Sillery Squadron is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its 1956 founding. In recent years, it left its mark on history by being the first …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle The Island of Anticosti was seriously proposed as the home of a convict colony and certainly its reputation for dreariness and isolation and the dangerous character …
The story behind Rue Sutherland
Rue Sutherland is named in honour of Daniel Sutherland (circa 1756-1832), who immigrated to Upper Canada from Scotland in 1776 and set up business in Montreal, eventually becoming very involved …
Everyone in Quebec City is Irish for the day of the 8th annual Défilé de la Saint-Patrick
Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume took a moment to have his photo taken with the children of the Kiwanis Québec organization while waiting for the parade to get underway. He …