Pick and eat wild mushrooms in the Forêt Montmorency
The Forêt Montmorency of Université Laval, the largest teaching and research forest in the world, is offering a full day of activities to help people better understand and gather forest …
50 years fly by: St. Pat’s grads’ reunion
A group of former St. Patrick’s High School students got together last Friday evening at Le Pub St-Patrick in Old Quebec to celebrate their 50th year since their graduation and …
Book launch: Hill Search: the Robert Corrigan Story by Steven L. Cameron
Ribbonmen in the hills, armed Orangemen on the roads, murder, body snatching, a lost cemetery, intimidation and intrigue and murder!! Hill Search is all this and more. The author leverages …
Saturday night lights: Rouge et Or shine at first game of the season
On Saturday night, some 17,800 fans came out to support the No. 1 ranked Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football team. Université Laval’s Rouge et Or started their season with a …
Drawn to Quebec: Squirrelly Notions
As autumn looms and the temperatures drop, a number of fairly predictable activities commence in Quebec City. Gardeners start watching the thermometer and hustle to harvest and preserve the summer’s …
News Digest Sepetember 3, 2014
Issue September 3, 2014 English News Serving Quebec City since 1764 since 1764, North America’s Oldest Newspaper *TMusing the most advanced news distribution method in over 246 years! Ipad …
A new school year begins at St. Vincent Elementary School
It felt as though summer had ended exactly on the first day of school. A chill was in the air on Friday morning, August 29, as students filed into St. …
Les Grands Voiliers 1864-2014 sail into port this weekend
Seven Tall Ships or Grands Voiliers will be in the Port of Quebec City this weekend to mark the 150th anniversary of the conferences held in Charlottetown and Quebec City …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864 The Morning Chronicle We learn from Charlottetown, P.E.I. that the Provincial Convention met in that city on the 2nd instant. The Canadian delegation had arrived on the previous day. …
The stories behind the names of Quebec City streets Avenue Fitzpatrick
Avenue Fitzpatrick was named after Charles Fitzpatrick (1851-1942). Born in Sainte-Foy, he was the son of John Fitzpatrick, a wood merchant from Ireland who became the first mayor of Sillery …