It’s the first Christmas season ever for Quebec City’s brand-new Grand Marché located next to the Vidéotron CentreThe sweeping two-storey market has been adorned everywhere with colourful and imaginative decorations. …
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Yes, we know it’s Christmas!
By the time you read this, “Do they know it’s Christmas?” will have joined the musical rotation in every mall, along with “All I Want for Christmas is You,” “Last …
Angela Morgan exhibits Snow, Pearls and Lemonade at Beauchamp gallery
Colourful works of art by British Columbian Angela Morgan are on exhibit at the Beauchamp gallery on Rue Notre-Dame at the corner of Côte de la Montagne in Lower Town …
Wrapping up the year
It’s that season again … decorations are brought down from the attic, Christmas trees are all dressed up and lit with hundreds of lights, and shoppers fill the malls, where …
Winter Carnival 2020 features festive and original events all over town
On Dec. 5 the Carnaval de Québec / Quebec City Winter Carnival announced many “partner events” that will complement the 2020 event, which runs from Feb. 7 to Feb. 16. …
Community Calendar
Dec. 12 to 15 – Cirque de Soleil is back on ice at the Videotron Centre with AXEL, an electrifying experience fusing world-class ice skating with breathtaking acrobatics. Seven shows …
The Voltigeurs de Québec and the First World War
Historian Michel Litalien recently launched Le 57e Bataillon d’infanterie, CEC : les Voltigeurs de Québec et la Première Guerre Mondiale.Because Canada relied only on volunteers at the start of the …
Two wins in four games for St. Pat’s hockey teams
Something that has happened rarely this season, the two St. Patrick’s High Fighting Irish hockey teams were playing in the same arena at College Notre-Dame in Montreal and came back …
Sports briefs: Capitales, cross-country skiing and hockey
The Quebec Capitales, of the Frontier Baseball League, acquired two new pitchers on Dec. 5. The Caps handed contracts to starting pitcher Yeudi Garcia and relief pitcher Frank Moscatiello. Garcia …
SLC Lions hockey team go into the holidays tied for first
The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions hockey team will start 2020 tied for first place with the Cégep de Thetford Filons in the Northeast division of the Réseau du Sport Étudiant …