Mother Nature continues to water the enormous garden full of sculptures at the Parc du Bois-de-Coulonge. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau) 
This door once opened to the infirmary of St. Michael’s Residential School in Alert Bay, B.C. If it could talk, it would tell us the tales behind handprints like these. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
Participants in the Reconciling History tour at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa left personal messages at Dr. Peter Bryce’s grave, in gratitude for his work on behalf of the welfare of Indigenous children in the residential school system. (Photo by Lorie Pierce) 
Several hundred Iranian Quebecers marched from Dufferin Terrace to the Radio-Canada studios on Rue Saint-Jean on Oct. 1 in solidarity with protesters in Iran. (Photo by Ruby Pratka) 
Award-winning Quebec artist René Derouin is the subject of filmmaker Patrick Bossé’s latest work Territoires des Amériques, which has an accompanying book of the same title. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
Cassandra Kerwin’s photo “Cold Christmas Moon a Photographer’s Dream” won first prize in the Best Feature Photo category at the Quebec Community Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Contest. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin from QCT archives) 
Volunteers Guy Bergeron and France Dionne of the Fondation Cap Diamant encouraged participants at the Salon FADOQ 50+ to make home care and end-of-life plans for themselves and donate to support seniors who lacked the resources or were too isolated to do so. (Photo by Ruby Pratka) 
Over the past weekend, dozens of artists around the province opened their studios to the public for Culture Days (Les Journées de la Culture). Thomas Cohen, an American- born painter and collage artist who has lived in Quebec City for the last two decades, welcomed a steady stream of visitors to his Lower Town workshop on Oct. 2. He creates his intricate collages using a method he calls mosaïcarton. The cardboard butterflies flew into this piece from surprising places – Kleenex boxes and greeting cards. (Photo by Ruby Pratka) 
Hosts Véronika Makdissi-Warren and Bertrand Alain entertained the audience with a glimpse into the history of cinema music, starting in the early days of silent film where a piano man and a huckster narrated the story and read the titles aloud to a mostly illiterate audience. (Photo by Myriam Labbé)