Place your order now for the Byron McBain Goodwill Fund Chicken BBQ
On Sunday, August 31, the Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Fire Department will fire up the barbeque pits next to the Community Centre in order to have 260 half-chickens done “to a turn” by …
Blast survivors “hopeful” as military ombudsman takes on investigation for Valcartier cadets
July 30 is an anniversary which Gerry Fostaty, author of As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier, has marked privately for all but a handful of times, but this year …
The Mystery of History
It is officially summertime, which means the QCT’s annual mystery photo series is back. This year, as a nod to the paper’s 250th anniversary, we will ask you to identify …
Serval cats found in Beauport now in Falardeau Zoo
Two servals (the smallest of the large wild cats of Africa) were recently captured and removed from a home in Beauport. In Quebec province it is illegal to keep exotic …
Jeffery Hale Friends’ Foundation Annual Golf Tournament
The JefferyHale Friends’ Foundation will be returning to the Club de Golf Cap-Rouge forour 24th Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament on Thursday, September11th. The day of golf will be followed by …
“Giant” parade opens Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
Colossal wooden marionettes representing the founders of New France towered over the crowds lining Grande Allée and Rue Saint-Louis as the parade inaugurating the 2014 Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France moved …
The stories behind the names of Quebec City streets Rue Bishop
Bishop Street is named for William Avery Bishop (1894-1956) born in Owen Sound, Ontario. This flamboyant man, nicknamed “Billy” Bishop, was a famous First World War flying ace. He was …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864 The Morning Chronicle “Le Canadien” of last evening says that it had learned by telegraphic dispatch that the Reformatory at St. Vincent de Paul*, near Montreal, had been entirely …
100th anniversary of the first expropriation in the Hamlet of Valcartier
On Sunday, August 3, descendants of original pioneer families who toiled for a century and more to create farms from wilderness where Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Valcartier now stands, met …
Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France in Place Royale PHOTOS BY Kasia Borkowska
Spellbinding costumes literally stopped pedestrian traffic in the Lower Town. A young apprentice learns the craft of stone-cutting at the Tailleurs de Pierre workshop. The stonecutters were hard at …