The story behind Boulevard Champlain
This wide boulevard was named for Samuel de Champlain, the famous French explorer and cartographer who made more than 20 trips across the Atlantic and founded New France and Quebec …
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MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
April 11, 1819 – The Quebec GazettePruning TreesPrudent farmers will not let this season pass without trimming off all the suckers and superfluous branches of their forest trees, as close …
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Ten years of inspiration at Imagination Writers’ Festival
The evening of Tuesday, April 2 felt almost like Christmas as the Morrin Centre launched its long awaited 10th Imagination Writers’ Festival of inspiring talks, workshops, readings, and activities.Claire Holden …
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Books + wine = a delicious evening at the Imagination Writers’ Festival
The Imagination Writers’ Festival at the Morrin Centre got off to a delicious start on the evening of April 3 as sommelier Yann Barrette-Bouchard presented the wines he had selected …
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Cornell University Chorus gives a concert at Chalmers-Wesley
On Wednesday evening, April 3, a group of 46 young women, members of the Cornell University Chorus, directed by Robert Isaacs, gave a magnificent concert at Chalmers-Wesley United Church in …
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Quebec comics highlighted at Musée de la Civilisation
Since the 19th century, satire and cartoons have complemented the pages of newspapers and magazines all over the world, and Quebec is no exception. The Musée de la Civilisation’s latest …
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FEQ 2019 headliners include Mariah Carey and Buddy Guy
Take your pick, depending on your tastes, of the blockbuster headliners announced last week for the 2019 edition of the Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ).Contenders for the biggest names coming …
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OBITUARY: George Henry BYRNE
George Henry BYRNE 1947-2019 George Henry Byrne, son of the late William A. Byrne and the late Henriette Beaudry, husband of Jocelyne Mercier, passed away at the Maison Michel-Sarrazin on …
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Global Montreal’s Karen Macdonald to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
The QCT learned on April 8 that Global Montreal’s news director and station manager Karen Macdonald is being recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) with a lifetime …
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Magical discoveries in Quebec City
Magician Daniel Coutu fell in love with the art after watching a popular children’s television program about magic and receiving a “Houdini” magic kit at the tender age of seven. …
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