Memorials and Things of Fame Researched and compiled by Lorie Pierce lorie@qctonline.com September 23, 1861 The Morning Chronicle A new firm was established in this city … under the title …

New Phones For Boischatel Replace Multi-party Lines Come next March, telephone subscribers in Boischatel and l’Ange Gardien will have a new telephone service, comprising individual and two-party lines now in …

Six Generations Of One Family Le Pas, Manitoba – Six generations of one family whose aggregate ages amount to 342 years, have been discovered at Nelson House. They belong to …

The Mixed Bathing Question (From Harper’s Weekly) Making newspaper [content] in the dog-days is uphill work, and the dearth of things necessary to be communicated and discussed make the discussion …

Canadian Iron – Since the publication of our remarks upon the Provincial Exhibition, we have been informed that the iron of which the axes (exhibited by Mr. Jobin) were made, …

Montreal – On Sunday last about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the Steam-boat Caledonia then on the Lake St. Peter, going before the wind at nine knots, and on her …

Not the children but the parents are to blame when ‘flappers’ run around the streets with their stockings rolled down, dressed in peek-a-boo waists and short skirts and their hair …

Sydney (CP) – Quebec adventurer Ward Sealy [sic] sailed for his birthplace in Belleoram, Nfld., Wednesday apparently confident he will make out all right in his 17-foot kayak regardless of …

For some time past there has been a suspicion, in fact a certainty, that whiskey was being illegally manufactured in Charlesbourg. Acting upon information received, Officer Bourget … seized a …

Her Majesty The Queen – We have seen with regret the attacks on the Queen, based on her Majesty’s absence from evening entertainments, and on her brief residence in London. …