Petit-Champlain co-op celebrates 40 years Ruby Pratka Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, Local Journalism Initiative editor@qctonline.com The Coopérative du Petit- Champlain, a unique co-op made up of 45 small businesses in the historic…
Between snow removers, shoppers, tourists and locals going for a stroll, there has always been something interesting happening in the Quartier Petit-Champlain for the past 40 years. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin)
The 95 wooden steps of the Escalier Frontenac are illuminated for Québec s’illumine! linking Lower and Upper Town between Côte de la Montagne and the Château Frontenac. (Photo by Danielle Burns)
How many Vieux-Québec landmarks can you spot in this photo? This scale model of Quebec City is part of Little Canada, a tourist attraction in the basement of a shopping mall near the corner of Yonge St. and Dundas St. in downtown Toronto. The brainchild of Dutch-Canadian investor Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer, the dioramas – which include scale models of Ottawa, Toronto, St. John’s, Charlottetown and Yellowknife – are brought to life by a team of more than 50 builders, with occasional contributions from outside teams. After “Petit Québec” and the newly opened “Little North,” “Little Rockies,” “Little Prairies” and “Petit Montréal” are next on the team’s to-do list. To learn more, visit little-canada.ca. (Photo by Ruby Pratka)
Joe Morissette (CEO of Speed Skating Canada), Gaétan Boucher, Laurent Dubreuil, Robert Dubreuil (executive director of Patinage de vitesse Quebec) and Jean-François Harvey (director general of the Centre de glaces Intact Assurance) celebrate Laurent Dubreuil’s track record for the 500-metre race at the Centre de glaces on Jan. 5. (Photo courtesy of Bartlema Action Photography/Tjerk Bartlema)