Community Calendar
Thursday to Sunday from June 10 to 30 & July 19 to Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. – Edwin-Bélanger Bandstand presents its 26th summer season of free concerts on the …
You know you’re a Quebec City anglophone when . . .
You’re fluent in French and English, but both francophones and anglophones think you have a funny accent.People ask where you’re from and get very surprised when you say “here!”You get …
A royal welcome for Grey Owl cheese
Make a special trip to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac this summer just to taste the Grey Owl goat’s milk cheese. It is really worth le détour to try this delicious cheese that melts …
Celebrate Canada Day and the Fête de la Ville de Québec
Now that the Fête nationale is over (wasn’t THAT a party!), Quebec City residents are preparing for Canada Day on July 1 and the Fête de la Ville de Québec …
Kidz Can…explore vocational training
On June 18, 40 students from Everest Elementary School and Valcartier Elementary School came together at the Eastern Québec Learning Centre (EQLC) to celebrate their end-of-school project. The project was …
Runners race up and down Quebec City’s staircases
At 7:20 a.m. on June 17, participants in the 10th Quebec City Staircase Challenge stepped up to the starting line in the Parc du Bois-de-Coulonge and set off to conquer …
Congratulations to the A.S. Johnson Class of 2018
The Andrew Stuart Johnson Memorial High School graduation took place in Thetford Mines on June 16. The ceremony was held at the school and was followed by dinner and dancing …
Here’s to the worker: this country was built with tools
Here we are at that uniquely Canadian convergence of dual (duelling?) national holidays – triple, if one includes National Aboriginal Day on June 21. It’s a time when, regardless of …
OBITUARY: C. Robert McGOLDRICK 1928 – 2018
In Quebec City, on June 4, 2018, died peacefully Mr. C. Robert McGoldrick, husband of the late Huguette Clément, father of Lisa (Dominique-André Demers) and Paul. Also mourning his passing …
Memorials and Things of Fame
June 22, 1818 – The Quebec GazetteDrummondville now has twenty-five frame houses in the village, situated on well laid out streets. A grist mill and saw mill had been completed …