Several hundred school-age children and their parents stood in line for over an hour at Laval University’s PEPS athletic centre for the chance to bounce a few balls back and…
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A gastronomic fair in Nouvo St-Roch
Despite the rain on September 6, bakers, butchers and other food specialists brought out their best at the second annual Cuisinez St-Roch in the Nouvo St-Roch* area of Quebec City….
Fighting Irish football season has started
St. Patrick’s High School students are looking forward to another great Irish football season. Playing in the Junior Division 3, the Fighting Irish started their first game on the wrong…
Pick and eat wild mushrooms in the Forêt Montmorency
The Forêt Montmorency of Université Laval, the largest teaching and research forest in the world, is offering a full day of activities to help people better understand and gather forest…
50 years fly by: St. Pat’s grads’ reunion
A group of former St. Patrick’s High School students got together last Friday evening at Le Pub St-Patrick in Old Quebec to celebrate their 50th year since their graduation and…
Book launch: Hill Search: the Robert Corrigan Story by Steven L. Cameron
Ribbonmen in the hills, armed Orangemen on the roads, murder, body snatching, a lost cemetery, intimidation and intrigue and murder!! Hill Search is all this and more. The author leverages…
Saturday night lights: Rouge et Or shine at first game of the season
On Saturday night, some 17,800 fans came out to support the No. 1 ranked Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football team. Université Laval’s Rouge et Or started their season with a…
Drawn to Quebec: Squirrelly Notions
As autumn looms and the temperatures drop, a number of fairly predictable activities commence in Quebec City. Gardeners start watching the thermometer and hustle to harvest and preserve the summer’s…
A new school year begins at St. Vincent Elementary School
It felt as though summer had ended exactly on the first day of school. A chill was in the air on Friday morning, August 29, as students filed into St….
Les Grands Voiliers 1864-2014 sail into port this weekend
Seven Tall Ships or Grands Voiliers will be in the Port of Quebec City this weekend to mark the 150th anniversary of the conferences held in Charlottetown and Quebec City…