Adaptation of a press release by Shirley Nadeau Two-year old boy left in family car dies after temperature inside tops 50 CIt is a familiar, heartbreaking story that comes with…
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Jordan Pond House popovers
Tasty popovers are a gastronomical delight and one of the highlights of a recent trip to Mount Desert Island in Maine. Jordan Pond House in Acadia National Park is a…
Memorials and Things of Fame
1863The Morning ChronicleMartin Macdonald, who was convicted of manslaughter was placed at the bar of the Queen’s Bench for sentencing. Hon. Mr. Justice Meredith said: “You now see the sad…
QCT Mystery Photo Contest – July 10
Bethann Merkle, Shirley Nadeau and Danielle Burns have scouted out people, places and things around the city for you to try and identify over the summer months. Your mission is…
Lots of big fireworks this summer!
To honour Quebec City’s birthday on July 3rd, Créations Pyro presented its first fireworks show of the 2013 season in Quebec. This was the first of a series of Grands…
Canada Day celebrations in Quebec City
Monday, July 1, was a beautiful, sunny day and it certainly brought out lots of people to celebrate Canada’s 146th birthday in style….
Irish visitors to Quebec City and Grosse Île
A group of nine Irish teenagers and their supervisors, Caroilin Callery and Maggie Gallagher, were in Quebec City this past week, as part of the Year of the Gathering activities…
Zombies walk in the sunshine for Opération Enfant Soleil
Something surprising, to say the least, happened in the Old Town on Saturday. There was a Zombie Parade – in broad daylight! It started from Place d’Youville, and about a…
Quebec High School rugby football club in 1904
The QCT recently received an interesting photo and information about a long-ago school rugby club in Quebec City. It came from Andrew Caddell, who grew up in Montreal West. Caddell…
Hillary’s Ride for Mental Health is crossing Canada
In May of 2003, Hillary Werthmann, who suffered from mental illness, took her life with a drug overdose. She was 20 years old.Her father, Bill Werthmann, of Edmonton, Alberta, explained…