1864The Morning ChronicleWe learn from Charlottetown, P.E.I. that the Provincial Convention met in that city on the 2nd instant. The Canadian delegation had arrived on the previous day. A preliminary…
Avenue Fitzpatrick was named after Charles Fitzpatrick (1851-1942). Born in Sainte-Foy, he was the son of John Fitzpatrick, a wood merchant from Ireland who became the first mayor of Sillery…
A public demonstration of Taoist Tai Chi took place at Place de l’Assemblée Nationale last Sunday. Experts and enthusiasts demonstrated the relatively new art of Tai Chi. The public was…
Turn back time to an era when art and the natural sciences were inseparable. Join local artist Bethann G. Merkle for a rare event to be held in the Morrin…
On Saturday, August 24, the Saint-Côme-Linière Historical Society hosted a narrated visit of the Jersey Mills cemetery on Second Avenue in Saint-Georges. Jean-Guy Lessard, local historian, told us about the…
With all the activities taking place commemorating the beginning of the First World War, one little-known fact deserves to be brought to light. Did you know that Winnie, the little…
On Sunday, September 14, Cardinal Gerald C. Lacroix invites the population to listen to the message that Pope Francis wants to share during a pontifical high mass that will be…
A whirlwind of magicians descended upon the Nouvo Saint-Roch neighbourhood last weekend for the Festival de magie de Québec. Magicians, illusionists and mentalists from around the world have gathered in…
What we call canola, and much of the rest of the world knows as rapeseed, is actually a fairly complicated plant. Created by Canadian researchers in the 1950s, canola is…
An accordion concert might sound like a headache-inducing afternoon of polka. Last Saturday afternoon (August 23), within the first few measures of Strauss’s Russiche Fantasie, the Orchestre National d’Accordéons de…