Memorials and Things of FameResearched and compiled by Lorie Pierce December 13, 1867 – The Morning ChronicleA Good Walk – In these pedestrian days it might be interesting for our readers…
Alicia Despins, newly elected city councillor for Vanier-Duberger, is proving that age truly is just a number. At 23, Despins is the youngest-ever elected city council member. Inspired while still…
The modern world of consumerism is divided into two groups: Those who love shopping in malls and those who loathe it. Me, I have mixed feelings: awed by the spectacle,…
In 1911, Avenue Turnbull was named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand Turnbull. His wife, Elizabeth MacKenzie Turnbull, was a major benefactor of the second Jeffery Hale hospital built on Boulevard…
It was a cold, rainy night when a dozen explorers left McGreevy Manor by bus to seek out those wonders that appear only at this time of year – colourful…
Meet Mark Lindenberg, the latest addition to the QCT’s roster of freelance journalists. Lindenberg’s articles have been published in The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen, as well as…
Five musicians of the Violons du Roy held a concert in the cozy Salle d’Youville of the Palais Montcalm on Dec. 7. They presented the same concert in the Salle…
La Société de l’arthrite (Arthritis Society), which has had a presence in Quebec City since 1980, recently held an open house to show off its new premises in the Holland…
Sometimes, only a few minutes is enough. The short films by young Indigenous filmmakers presented at the Wapikoni Mobile Quebec City launch, held Dec. 4 at the Musée de la…
An eye-opening exhibition by two English-speaking Quebec artists addresses sensitive questions of race and living in Quebec as a person of colour, while paying homage to previous generations. The show,…