The board of directors of the Frontier League has unanimously voted to suspend the 2020 season, joining the Québec Capitales and the Trois-Rivières Aigles, who decided earlier this month to…
After a record-breaking heat wave and a very dry month of June, rain is here at last.The heat wave has had alarming consequences. Some municipalities are worried that they might…
June 26 is André Gosselin’s last day of school. After a 32-year teaching career, Gosselin is retiring as principal of St. Patrick’s High School. Gosselin grew up on a farm…
Summer is here – heat waves, sun, greenery, flowers and all! Hoping to find cool, peaceful places to gather, people often flock to large air-conditioned spaces such as the Musée…
Nothing – not even a pandemic – was going to stop the 12th annual Grand Défi Pierre-Lavoie (GDPL) from happening. One way or another, physical fitness motivator Pierre Lavoie was…
This street is named in honour of Guillaume Bresse, born in 1833 in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu. After primary school, he became a factory worker in Montreal. It is believed that Bresse learned…
“Give me a head with hair!”You don’t need to have “long, beautiful hair” to be in the cast of the Quebec Art Company production of the ground-breaking “tribal rock-love musical.”…
June 25, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleSt. Jean-Baptiste Day – Yesterday being the national festival of our French Canadian follow [sic] citizens, the day was celebrated by a procession of…
At the current clip of “deconfinement,” as Quebec government leaders have taken to calling the relaxing of COVID-19 lockdown regulations, one might easily get the impression this pandemic thing is…
A century ago, on July 1, then known as Dominion Day, a military review was held at Camp Valcartier. At the beginning of the ceremony, Colonel Vuchterle of the Czechoslovakian…