A German Priest’s thoughts on Remembrance Day
In Germany, Remembrance Day was established as a national holiday in 1934, in order to commemorate the soldiers who died when fighting for their home country. But the purpose had …
Son recounts father’s WWI experience
After spending the 1916/17 school year at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, my father, A. Kelso Roberts, was sent overseas with all the other junior officers in his …
Labeaume visits SLC Business Program
Mayor Regis Labeaume’s current business is politics, but he says business is what helped him arrive where he is today. The mayor last week addressed a gathering of the P.W. …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1849The Morning Chronicle We have been requested to intimate that gun practice will be carried on from the Citadel at one o’clock this afternoon. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood should …
Loves Memorials column
Love your column Memorials and Things of Fame by Catherine Rouleau of October 28 (just in today) – the l859 item especially. Your column is always interesting and I love …
New Bill C-6 looks after corporate interests
Hey Canadians, wake up and smell the turpentine! It seems we are all being royally bamboozled. Raise your hands all of you who thought that we Canadians lived in a …
Putting lipstick on a pig
No matter how much lipstick you smear on a pig, it’s still going to be a pig. And no matter how much Bill C-384 you smear on suicide, it will …
St. Patrick’s High School visits water filtration plant in Charlesbourg
On Wednesday, November 4, the secondary two students from St. Patrick’s High School had the opportunity to visit the new water filtration plant in Charlesbourg. This outing was part of …
Play remembers École Polytechnique massacre
It was a tragedy of epic proportions, the December day of 20 years ago when a 25-year-old man opened fire at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, killing 14 women and wounding …
Former Quebec City resident carries Olympic flame
Karen Wallace will spend five hours on the road, through what could be chancy winter weather for a momentary brush with history, but she will remember December 1 for the …