The Megantic English-speaking Community Development Corporation (MCDC) held its biennial community forum on February 8, 2014, at the Thetford Mines Golf and Curling Club. Every two years, this event provides…
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Shirley Temple, North America’s dimpled darling
Shirley Temple, the famous child star who later became a respected American diplomat, passed away on February 10, at age 85, at her Woodside, California, home. She was married to…
Memorials and Things of Fame
1864The Morning ChronicleThe concert at the Lecture Hall, in aid of the Widows and Orphans of the Church Missionary Society was in every respect highly successful and reflects the greatest…
Québécois directors nominated for Oscars
Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée are both accomplished film-makers. Villeneuve was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) in 2011 for Best Foreign Language Film for his film Incendies in French/Arabic….
Intergenerational snow sculpting tradition
Snow sculptor Jacques Baril from Abitibi, part of the team that won the 2014 Winter Carnival sculpting competition, has been leading snow sculpting workshops in schools across the province for…
Building Bonhomme’s Ice Palace
Growing up in Quebec City, Marc Lepire dreamed of building Bonhomme Carnaval’s ice palace. When he was 11, Marc began helping his father, Michel Lepire, build decorative sculptures for Carnaval….
Quebec City Women’s Club Bursary Program
The Quebec City Women’s Club’s Bursary Program aims to encourage higher education among women by awarding bursaries to women of the Greater Quebec City area. Two bursaries of $2,000 each…
Michel Pleau, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate
For Michel Pleau, it all began with the whisper of the wind in the trees. The Quebec City poet says a childhood trip to a cabin in the Laurentians with…
Musées de la civilisation à Québec given an exceptional donation
On February 6, Michel Côté, executive director, and Margaret Margaret Delisle, chair of the board of directors of the Musées de la civilisation in Quebec City, held a press conference…
Random Acts of Kindness at Ste-Foy Elementary School
At our school, Ste-Foy Elementary, we decided to host an activity during the month of February. We are collecting the random acts of kindness we see. We write the acts…