Drawn to Quebec: The complexity of cashmere
According to the Canadian Cashmere Producers Association, the western world may have been introduced to cashmere when Napoleon gave his wife Josephine one of the fabled shawls from Central Asia. …
HitchBOT makes it across Canada thanks to the kindness of strangers
HitchBOT, an interactive robot with blue foam pool noodles for arms and legs, a bucket for a body, and a clear plastic cake cover protecting his/her/its* LED head, miraculously made …
Quebec Art Company holding auditions for its fall production
Plans are underway for the Quebec Art Company’s next production – Witness for the Prosecution – a well-known play written by Agatha Christie based on her original 1933 short story, …
Bubbling over with happiness at Lake Témiscouata
I recently met three very generous people – Tania Heymann from Chile, her mother, Marta Roytman, from Uruguay, and Martin Simard – at beautiful Lake Témiscouata. Ever since she was …
Venus’ orbit set to pass through Quebec City
The whoosh of the racket and the pop of the little green ball will return to the PEPS at Université Laval in early September. The Coupe Banque Nationale, formerly known …
Chamber Organ and Choral Festival Concert charms audience
Close to 300 people filled the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on Sunday afternoon for the first Chamber Organ and Choral Festival, under the direction of Dr. Douglas Renfroe. Thirty …
Delightful, delicious and de-lovely evening at the Lévis jazz festival
The streets of Old Town Lévis seemed like something straight out of the classic Cole Porter musical Anything Goes on the evening of Saturday, August 9. “The night is young, …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864 The Morning Chronicle At about a quarter to four yesterday afternoon, a fire broke out in the large three-storey building, or rather range of buildings, situated in St. Paul …
The stories behind the names of Quebec City streets
Michael-Henry Brophy (1860-1905) was the mayor of Sainte-Foy from 1899 to 1905. Of Irish origin, Brophy graduated in medicine at Laval University and practiced in Sillery, Sainte-Foy and Cap-Rouge. He …
Dîner en Blanc an extraordinary picnic in the park
Champagne, fois gras and lobster are not normally associated with picnics. Neither are evening gowns and feathered hats. But the Dîner en Blanc is no ordinary picnic; it is in …