Everyone loves a parade: Another successful year for St. Patrick’s Day parade
Blustery winds and falling temperatures don’t stop the Irish from a good celebration. On Saturday afternoon, March 26, thousands of Quebecers came out donning green to watch the St. Patrick’s …
College Hockey Playoffs: St. Lawrence Wins In Quarterfinal Action and Advances to Semifinals
With play-off fever starting to build, the Saint Lawrence Lions eliminated College Lionel Groulx in two straight games in a best of three series played this past weekend. Both teams …
Rehearsals continue for The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Quebec Art Company is gearing up for their spring production of Neil Simon’s play, “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” with rehearsals well underway and set construction starting next week. …
Marc-Aurel Fortin: a modern artist?
Marc-Aurel Fortin is a major, if not the most important, figure of that period when the art of Quebec was operating a shift toward modernism. He is thus seen as …
Anton Kuerti at the Morrin Centre
The Morrin Centre presents Anton Kuerti in the latest of their Arts Matters series at the Morrin Centre on Tuesday, March 29, at 7:00 p.m. These talks are moderated by …
Exploring Quebec requires joie de vivre
Quebec City – “I have never heard anyone speak French like that,” says the taxi driver, looking at me like I had two heads. We circle past the Chateau Frontenac …
The Toys & More Sale gains momentum
The Moms’ Nite Out Volunteers of the Jeffery Hale Community Services have worked hard to create a lasting and growing fundraiser. For the past five years, they have been organizing …
St. Patrick’s Day Concert at St. Dominique Church
There was a lovely concert at Église Saint-Dominique on St. Patrick’s Day, “A Tip of the Hat to Ireland” or a “Coup de chapeau à l’Irlande,” as it was advertised …
SongCircle: An afternoon of live music with Randall Spear and guests
Don’t miss out on the last SongCircle of the season at the Morrin Centre on Sunday, March 27, at 2:00 p.m. This time, local folksinger and songwriter Randall Spear will …
A winter wonderland in Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges
I learned firsthand of the origin of the name of the town, Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges – St. Ferreol of Snows, while spending a week there in a house rented by my daughter. …