Winter World Masters Games open
The flags of 20 nations fluttered, drummers drummed and a party atmosphere reigned as the athletes of the Winter World Masters Games set off from the Palais des Congrès on …
Snowshoe time on the Plains of Abraham
The World Snowshoe Championships were held on the Plains of Abraham Saturday afternoon, in -15 C weather with a biting wind that made it feel like -25 and deterred all …
Limoilou’s 3e Avenue is Complètement givrée!
Winter Carnival fever has taken over the city, and Limoilou celebrated with its customary gusto last Saturday. On January 31, the district’s picturesque 3e Avenue hosted a day-long street festival, …
Memories of Sue Gale Bjornstad
I knew this charming lady very well. She was the mother of my good friend Shane Leroy and she spent all her summers in a magnificent old family summer house …
Please attend to the present and secure our future
This letter is addressed generally to the English-speaking Catholics of greater Quebec City and environs. It is addressed particularly to those of you who have considered yourselves to be members …
FUNdraising to “get out of the red”
Each year for the past several years, the staff at the Jeffery Hale Community Centre hold a “Get Out of the Red” FUNdraising lunch, the profits of which go to …
A Burns Supper for “Auld Lang Syne”
The Bard himself would have been delighted with last Saturday’s Burns Supper at the Château Laurier on Grande Allée – and what a grand evening it was! The 11th annual …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1865 The Morning Chronicle It is but a few days since we had occasion to comment on the daily increasing recklessness and brutality of a portion of our water-side population. …
Drawn to Quebec: A taste of Asian heritage
Canada’s cultural and culinary flavours have long been based on the heritage of immigrants. Nowhere is this truer than Quebec, where modern residents produce regional cuisines steeped in their own …
The story behind the name Rue Elgin
Rue Elgin was named in honour of the Scotsman James Bruce (1811-1863), the 8th Earl of Elgin and the son-in-law of Lord Durham. As a student of Eton and then …