Dialogue avec l’histoire is back! The stark white Rubik’s cube-like sculpture, offered to Quebec City by the City of Paris, was originally installed in Place de Paris in Lower Town …
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Festin celtique a delicious treat at the Domaine de Maizerets
The Festival Celtique de Québec got off to a great start on Sept. 7 at the Domaine de Maizerets where, for the first time in the 13-year history of the …
Michael Matthews wins the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montreal
On Sept. 7, 144 cyclists raced through Quebec City’s winding streets and across the Plains of Abraham for the ninth Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec (GCPQ), one of only two …
Trying to tame the invasive horsetail
The horsetail plant (Equisetum, from the Latin words equus for horse and seta for tail) is one of the oldest plants in the world. The ancestors of today’s horsetail were …
Community Calendar
Sept. 8 to 16 – Coupe Banque Nationale tennis championship at the PEPS at Université Laval. International tournament sanctioned by the Women’s Tennis Association. Daily matches Sept. 10 to 14. …
Do you eat organic
Buying and eating local is all the rage these days. People are rediscovering the goodness of fresh homegrown fruit and vegetables that our grandparents took for granted, and being encouraged …
Rouge et Or football defence shines in win over Carabins
The much-anticipated first meeting of the season between the Université Laval Rouge et Or and the Université de Montréal Carabins was held on Sept. 8 at the CEPSUM stadium in …
Fighting Irish sweep Mont-Joli; Capitales in the Can-Am League Final
St. Patrick’s High School’s Fighting Irish football teams started their 2018 campaigns on a winning note.Members of the Québec-Chaudière-Appalaches region of the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), the …
New adventures for Girl Guides of Canada
Girl Guides of Canada has embarked on a new and exciting girl-driven adventure! We are launching our new Girls First program this September. Through Girls First, every girl in Guiding …
Waterloo Settlement-The first years
The first years of the Waterloo Settlement –Key figures-Shadgett and O’Dwyer It all started in 1821, following the mass arrival of new immigrants from the British Isles, after the …