“Prairie boy” recruits newcomers with expats blog
The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph (QCT) is proud to announce that one of its own, general manager Taylor Ireland, is working on a blog project with Québec en Tête (Quebec First) called …
A prairie boy’s take on life in Quebec City
This blog entry first appeared on quebecentete.com May 6, 2016. People often ask me how I found myself living in Quebec City, and more particularly, as a successful entrepreneur in …
Catching up on the interim
Where was I? The last such column, dated September 20, 2006, was about the debate over where Lord Stanley first made the speech promising a trophy for hockey supremacy. Was …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1866 The Morning Chronicle Statistics recently published show that thirty million bottles of champagne are annually produced in France and are thus apportioned: Africa 1,000,000; Spain and Portugal 200,000; Italy …
John Neilson tours Pine River
The Shannon Heritage Council and Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Settlement Days joined together on Saturday, July 16, for a tour of Pine River, the territory that, some 50 years ago, was expropriated in …
The story behind Nelles Street
Rue Nelles was named in honour of Admiral Percy Walker Nelles (1892-1951), who was born in Brantford Ontario. In 1929, Nelles was appointed commanding officer of HMS Dragon and two …
A “Ferry Crowded House” at Festival d’Été
There was a certain familiarity to Neil Finn’s stage manner, when the lead singer of the Australian/New Zealand group Crowded House opened the night’s performances on Friday, July 15, on …
Vigil held at French Consulate in Quebec City
A solemn vigil was held in front of the French Consulate on Grande Allée in Quebec City on Saturday, July 16, in memory of those who were killed in the deadly …
Sheryl Crow brings country sunshine to the Bell Stage
On the evening of July 12, fans swarmed onto the Plains of Abraham wearing plaid shirts, country dresses, cowboy boots and hats. They were pumped and ready for country music, …
Midi en musique at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
Bass-baritone Douglas Renfroe presented a selection of songs by Wagner, Gounod, Gilbert and Sullivan, Britten, Wolf, Schubert and Schumann at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity last Thursday afternoon, for …