On Saturday, August 24, the Saint-Côme-Linière Historical Society hosted a narrated visit of the Jersey Mills cemetery on Second Avenue in Saint-Georges. Jean-Guy Lessard, local historian, told us about the …

With all the activities taking place commemorating the beginning of the First World War, one little-known fact deserves to be brought to light. Did you know that Winnie, the little …

On Sunday, September 14, Cardinal Gerald C. Lacroix invites the population to listen to the message that Pope Francis wants to share during a pontifical high mass that will be …

A whirlwind of magicians descended upon the Nouvo Saint-Roch neighbourhood last weekend for the Festival de magie de Québec. Magicians, illusionists and mentalists from around the world have gathered in …

What we call canola, and much of the rest of the world knows as rapeseed, is actually a fairly complicated plant. Created by Canadian researchers in the 1950s, canola is …

An accordion concert might sound like a headache-inducing afternoon of polka. Last Saturday afternoon (August 23), within the first few measures of Strauss’s Russiche Fantasie, the Orchestre National d’Accordéons de …

Ladies, and gentlemen, if you can afford it, do your Christmas shopping early as this is your last chance to buy a luxury item at the Holt Renfrew store in …

It might be time to revise that childhood rhyme in which we admonish the ladybug to “fly away home.” It all depends on which species you have on the tip …

At the recent 2014 Emmy awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, team members of Rodeo FX, a visual effect company from Montreal, walked away …

One of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation, Sir George-Étienne Cartier was born on September 6, 1814, in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu. His name is spelled without an ‘s’ (the usual French spelling) as he …