Last Saturday in downtown Quebec City, it seemed as if spring had taken a day off. Gusts of wind and cold rain battered tables and chairs on empty café-terraces. But…
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The Thrift at St. Michael’s – May 3, 2014
Come to the Thrift!Greetings! St Michael’s Church, 1800 Chemin Saint-Louis, will hold its monthly sale, The Thrift, Saturday, May 3 from 10:30 to 1 p.m. Clothing, jewellery, English and French books for children and adults, dishware, household goods,…
Barber ‘N’ BBQ
An amazing event was held on April 24 at CEGEP Champlain-St. Lawrence. Indeed, a determined group of P.W. Sims Business students organized a joyful BBQ lunch to celebrate the coming of…
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864The Morning ChronicleWhere is it? We find the following paragraph going the rounds of our contemporaries. We should like to know where the rich “placer” therein alluded to, is to…
David Bircher’s portraits of Quebec City
David Bircher has published his first book, Québec Portrait, A photographic monograph, which shows the changing face of Quebec City between 1965 and 1980.The large-format bilingual book contains 42 high-quality…
Where’s the fire?
The Cathedral Close. Five o’clock on a cloudless Easter morning. Bishop Dennis Drainville, Dean Christian Schreiner and 36 parishioners have gathered around a small fire, awaiting the sunrise service. All…
Quebec heritage group wins prestigious digital mapping award
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) is delighted to announce that its website ‘Mapping the Mosaic’ has just been awarded first prize by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)…
A long road to glory for the QHS annual fashion show
The annual student fashion show at Quebec High School took audience members on a journey around the world, and marked the end of a more personal journey for many of…
St. Pat’s students collect change for a change in Kenya
A little change made a big difference for the students of St. Patrick’s High School and would-be students in the village of Salabwek, in Kenya, where the Quebec City students…
ABAM = Active Body, Active Mind
Grade 5 and 6 students of Ste-Foy Elementary School learned the rudiments of curling at the Jacques Cartier Curling Club last Friday. This hallowed curling club, which has existed since…