Central Quebec School Board establishes first Student Ombudsman
As a result of Bill 88, passed in May 2008 by Education Minister Michelle Courchesne, by which school boards are required to establish a procedure for examining complaints from students …
High School Performing Arts Festival
The Central Quebec School Board is gearing up for another Performing Arts Festival to celebrate the talents of our young performing artists. On Thursday, March 24, high school students will …
Olympic Courage and then some
Courage, self control and grim determination would describe the attributions required of Olympic competitors. Add to this some excruciating training and we have a picture of what it takes to, …
The deteriorating Quebec Bridge
“Its construction was considered a major engineering feat; for many years it was justifiably the pride of our city.” Yeah – and look at it now. I refer, of course, …
Memories of Marianna O’Gallagher
In the late 1990s, after a few attempts at locating copies of Marianna O’Gallagher’s books in the city, I finally ended up at La Maison Anglaise where the clerk told …
Memory Error … and the R100 Visits Quebec
In the February 23 issue of the QCT, under the title A Close Call, I recounted how, on their wedding eve, a lack of communication threatened my future parents’ nuptials. …
High school students helping Haiti
With the currents event that are happening in Japan, it’s hard to believe that only a year has passed since the small country of Haiti was devastated by an earthquake.Today, …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
1851 The Morning Chronicle A man named Whitmore, said to be a recent importation from Dublin, has been committed to gaol to take his trial for stealing a silver ewer …
Paintings of Lt. Col. Charles Forbes
Forty-one works of art by the late Sir Jean-Charles Bertrand Forbes (1921-2010) were exhibited for sale at the Quebec Garrison Club on March 19 to benefit the Foundation of the …
Women’s Provincial Curling Championship Silver Medalists
Debbie Ford-Caron, skip of the team which proudly took home silver medals from the Senior Women’s Provincial Curling Championship 2011, held at the Huntingdon Curling Club from February 21 to …