Quebec’s Lower Town will take on its original New France appearance during Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France from August 5 to August 9. The theme of the19th edition, Quebec: Port…
Congratulations to our Canadian athletes who won a total of 217 medals at the Pan Am Games in Toronto which ended on Tuesday, July 26. Team Canada racked up 78…
1865The Morning ChronicleA seedy looking individual who applied at Police Court for redress told a somewhat doleful story of the treatment he had received at the hands of his wife. He…
Rue des Hospitalières is named after the Hospitalière (or Hospitaller) nursing sisters who, in 1639, founded the first hospital in New France.The order of the Augustinian Sisters was founded in…
Last year, as I was working on the history of the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, I came across a most surprising photograph. In the August 28, 1943, edition of the newspaper, president…
“Through the whole land did shew themselves an infinite swarme of fierie wormes flying in the ayre, whose bodies make such a shew and light, as if every twigge or…
The first year the Festival Opéra de Québec was organized, the board members were not sure how long it would survive. The event has to compete with a variety of…
Quebec City is preparing to host the third annual French wine festival, Bordeaux fête le vin à Québec, from August 27 to 30. One new feature this year will be…
If you and your guests are feeling jaded with the sites within our beautiful Old City walls or tired of the noise of our lively festivals and concerts, I’d like…
A celebration of the life of the late poet Laura Scribner, member of the Quebec Writers’ Circle, will take place on Monday, July 27, 2015, at 7 pm at the…