Samuel de Champlain must be wondering where all the tourists have gone! Place d’Armes and Rue Sainte-Anne on a lovely sunny afternoon. Not a soul in sight! “Roses …
Daily Archives: 14 April 2020
The Easter Bunny visits the Old City
The Easter Bunny’s first stop to deliver some chocolate eggs in Old Quebec was on Dufferin Terrace, in front of the Château Frontenac. The Easter Bunny then hopped over …
Fiddling around with Super(star) rainbows
Lucie Bouchard, the Quebec Art Company’s wardrobe mistress, put her talents to work on a different cause when she created this gorgeous rainbow using remnants of fabric from the troupe’s …
Unimaginable: COVID-19 kills FEQ 2020, Fête nationale on Plains
When Premier François Legault took a stroll on the Plains of Abraham a few Saturdays ago, the possibility – perhaps inevitability – of a summer deprived of public gatherings in …
What are you doing to keep busy during COVID-19 isolation?
QCT journalist and photographer Lise Lafond says . . . “I’m keeping busy with spring cleaning both inside and outside the house, plus the barn. It feels pretty strange to …
The story behind Parc Gilles-Lamontagne
This park is named in honour of Gilles Lamontagne (1919-2016), who was the mayor of Quebec City from 1965 to 1977.Lamontagne was born in Montreal and studied at the École …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
April 15, 1895 – The Quebec Morning ChroniclePortneufOwing to the recent heavy rain the water in the rivers on the north bank of the St. Lawrence rose very rapidly, breaking …
Pandemic 2020: A social-distancing space odyssey
(With apologies to speculative fiction writers everywhere.)”What did you do in the pandemic of 2020, Grandpa?”The man focused on the floating gel screen and shifted his robotic body in a …
COVID-19 crisis won’t stop marine radio and traffic operations
The COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly stopped the world, except for the essential services that are needed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.We have all heard the stories of …
Services available at Jeffery Hale Hospital
The emergency room at Jeffery Hale Hospital has been converted to a “Designated Evaluation Clinic” (DEC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeffery Hale–Saint Brigid’s advisory committee president Richard Walling said the …