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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Thank you for being a friend!
Lucie Bouchard’s cat, Cid, is peacefully supporting the Jeffery Hale Hospital staff by thanking them for being a friend. Actually, the signs on the bed are part of a project …
Winding down the COVID lockdown a lesson in confusion
We thought we’d buy some handkerchiefs – shouldn’t it really be nosekerchief? – from a local clothing store that’s had its ups and downs lately. You know, buy local, support …
Warren Thomson appointed principal of both QHS, St. Patrick’s
In a gesture that affirms the coming merger of Quebec City’s two main English-language secondary schools, the Central Québec School Board (CQSB) has appointed a single principal to oversee the …
Meet Carlo Belmonte: the birdman of Saint-Roch
If you have not run into Carlo Belmonte and his “family” of lovebirds, you haven’t been spending enough time in the Saint-Roch or Petit Champlain areas where Belmonte enjoys interacting …
Fire spreads under Hydro-Quebec power lines in Val-Bélair
On May 21, a brush fire spread underneath the Hydro-Québec transmission towers in the Val-Bélair district of Quebec City. Four fire alarms called 80 firefighters from the Service de protection …
The story behind Chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois
This street is named for the four 19th-century bourgeois (middle-class) landowners whose estates and farmlands were crossed by the road it would become. Beginning in 1849, Daniel Ross, a naval …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
May 27, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleFenian News!The Fenians from nearly every part of the State of New York, are mustering on the line of Hinchinbrooke [southern Quebec], with very …
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Red River Expedition: Part 1
In March 1871, Lieut. H.S.H. Riddell of the 60th Rifles presented a paper to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec about the Red River Expedition of 1870. Lieut. Riddell …
Social distancing is the new norm at elementary schools
At École Coeur-Vaillant-Campanile elementary school in Sainte-Foy, and at all other Quebec schools that resumed classes on May 11, social distancing is the new norm. It can be seen when …