Authors for Indies at La Maison Anglaise
Saturday, May 2, is Authors for Indies Day. That’s when authors across Canada support independent bookstores by volunteering as guest book sellers. Independent bookstores enrich our communities. They provide …
News Digest April 22 2015
Issue April 22, 2015 English News Serving Quebec City since 1764 since 1764, North America’s Oldest Newspaper *TM using the most advanced news distribution method in over 246 …
QAC gives life to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
The Quebec Art Company (QAC) presented U.K. playwright Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to highly appreciative audiences at Holland School from April 16 to 19. The program distributed …
Louis Hanrahan retires from Jeffery Hale – Saint Brigid’s
Looking very relaxed and casual, recently-retired Louis Hanrahan was fêted by colleagues, residents, staff and friends not once but twice – on Wednesday, April 15, at Jeffery Hale Hospital, and …
Volunteers are like popcorn…warm and comforting
It was all smiles at Volunteer Appreciation Night in the gymnasium of Holland School on Thursday, April 16. Some 70 volunteers had the opportunity to meet and mingle, enjoy sparkling …
Champlain–St. Lawrence Campus draws blood
Blood donors gathered at Champlain-St. Lawrence Campus on April 14 for the fifth annual Héma-Québec Blood Drive, organized by students Philippe Langlois and Yasmine Jit. Student volunteers welcomed donors to …
Quebec High School has The Q Factor
They’re used to getting grades from their teachers – but not like this. On April 15, Quebec High School students and staff competed in the first elimination round of The …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1865 The Morning Chronicle What with recent storms, frost and floods, the wire travelling messenger, upon which we now depend for early news, has been sadly obstructed. At Cap Rouge …
STREET VIEWS: The story behind Rue Henry-Howison
Henry Howison, of Scottish ancestry on his father’s side and French-Canadian on his mother’s, was born in about 1833 in Quebec City and studied at the Quebec Seminary. He married …
Letter to the Editor: Bravo to the QAC!
Bravo to the QAC! In one capacity or another, I have attended most of the productions of the Quebec Art Company since its inception over 50 years ago and have …