The Quebec Capitales are moving to a new league. On Oct. 16, Bill Lee, the commissioner of the Frontier Baseball League, made the official announcement in Washington, Pennsylvania, that the …
Monthly Archives: October 2019
QCT Print Edition – October 16 2019
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Lions hockey team back on the winning track
The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions hockey team is back on track in the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference after their two victories this past weekend at …
SSQ Quebec City Marathon a runaway success
Ontario’s David Mutai out-paced all competitors on Oct. 13, completing the 42.2-kilometre SSQ Quebec City Marathon in 2:25. Caroline Shaw from Virginia won the women’s race in 3:06.They were not …
Shades of 1979 in the 2019 election battle for Quebec
OK, Justin Trudeau is not his dad, Andrew Scheer is not exactly a clone of Joe Clark, and for sure François Legault is not René Lévesque. But as we enter …
Stakes high in Quebec City area for Liberal Duclos, Conservative Deltell
They are vastly different by background, style and politics but Conservative Gérard Deltell and Liberal Jean-Yves Duclos have two important things in common: both are first-term federal MPs, and both …
Can Liberal Lightbound end Louis-Hébert’s single-term curse?
With Halloween on the horizon, Joël Lightbound is hoping to break the 30-year curse of Louis-Hébert riding. Not since the 1988 federal election, when Progressive Conservative Suzanne Duplessis won a …
The story behind Rue Dom-Bellot
This street is named in honour of Paul-Louis-Denis Bellot (1876-1944), a Benedictine monk and architect. He was born in Paris and died in Quebec City. “‘Dom” is an honorary title …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
October 17, 1819 – The Quebec GazetteA very handsome subscription amounting to nearly £250 currency, has been raised at Frederickton, New Brunswick, for the purpose of assisting in forming a …
Club Musical takes audience away to 19th-century Paris
The Club Musical de Québec opened its season at the Palais Montcalm on Oct. 7 by taking a full house on a sublime excursion into 19th-century Parisian music and poetry. …