Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 – The Morning Chronicle The delegates and members of the Medical Society, accompanied by a number of lady friends, left town to visit the Beauport Asylum. The party filled …
The QCT bids a fond farewell to Catherine Mills-Rouleau
This week’s “Memorials and Things of Fame” is the next to last or avant dernière column that will appear in this newspaper, prepared by Catherine Mills-Rouleau. For the past 10 …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 – The Morning Chronicle On Saturday night, a blacksmith of the city got into a drunken brawl with the mate of a merchant vessel with whom he had been …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 – The Morning Chronicle A sailor named Fitzgerald, in company with three others, visited a house of ill-fame on St. Joseph street. Immediately on the entrance, a quarrel commenced …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 – The Morning Chronicle Lawlessness is very rampant in the district of Quebec especially in the immediate vicinity of the city. This summer a gang of pirates camped in …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle Recorder’s Court: Two old wood-sawyers were brought before the Court for sawing fire wood in St. John street instead of in the yard or cellar of …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle Last night, between seven and eight o’clock, our city was visited by a thunder and lightning storm accompanied by strong gusts of wind. The flashes of …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle A most ludicrous incident transpired one night recently. It appears that two sprightly and beautiful young ladies were visiting their cousin, a young lady who, like …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle In the Court yesterday, a strong minded woman of a determined countenance was brought up on a charge of being drunk and screaming at four o’clock …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle Three bailiffs from the country have become the laughing stock of Quebecers because they allowed a prisoner whom they were bringing to justice in this city …