Lightning Storm! Kaboom!
On Saturday, June 30, at 2:00 p.m. a sudden, violent lightning storm passed over Quebec City. The powerful wind brought sheets of rain with hailstones. Trees were knocked down and …
Winners of the June 2012 Mystery Photo Contest
We are pleased to announce the five winners of the June Mystery Photo Contest which began with the first photo published in the Wednesday, May 30, 2012, edition. Photo #1 …
Surrealism: Crossing the Atlantic to the New World
Surrealism is a post World War I cultural movement that at first concerned literature but soon encompassed the visual arts. Having lived through the devastation of the war, writers and …
Surrealism in Mexico
In the early 20th century, Paris, was considered the artistic capital of the western world where art had become more a product of the mind and less the representation of …
News Digest for July 4, 2012
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! Newsstand LocationsSubscribe online access – only …
Canada Day ceremony at City Hall
The 2012 Canada Day celebrations held last Sunday, July 1, started with a mass at Notre-Dame Basilica attended by the Lieutenant Governor, His Excellency Pierre Duchesne. At the end …
Bill Boden receives Moe Rosenhek Award
Bill Boden was honoured recently when he was presented with the Citadel Foundation’s Moe Rosenhek Award by Joanne Rosenhek. The award, commemorating the late Mr. Rosenhek’s contributions to the English-speaking …
Public Sketching Event
On Saturday, July 14 at 10:00 a.m. a Public Sketching Event will be held on the Plains of Abraham. Join Quebec City’s local public sketching group, Drawn to Québec, for …
Wedding Announcement
Congratulations to QCT writer Juanita Craig and Jimmy Lambert who will be tying the knot on Saturday, July 14, 2012, in Sainte-Jeanne-d’Arc, Lac Saint-Jean. The couple first met in 1996 …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1862 The Morning Chronicle Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday morning, the premises occupied by Mr. F.W. Blaiklock, corner of De Salaberry street and Grand Allée Road, were discovered to …