Turkey Supper
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 St-Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Valcartier will be having a TURKEY SUPPER At the Community Centre1743, boulevard Valcartier from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Adults: $1o.00Children 6 to 12: $5.00Children under 6: free Everyone is …
Tinity Church Flea Market September 13th
Trinity Church is holding flea market on Saturday, September 13th, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., in Collie Hall, everything from furniture, clothing, tools, household items will be on sale. Coffee and tea …
OSQ gets warm reception in chilly open air
The Orchestre Symphonique de Québec’s Pleins Feux concert on the Plains of Abraham received a very warm reception from concert-goers on what was otherwise a cold and autumn-like night. An …
Golf returns to the Plains
The Morning Chronicle noted the unusual sight of a Scottish mariner teeing up a couple of “gutties” on the Plains of Abraham in 1854. The now familiar Scottish tradition, the …
Slow progress on St. Matthew’s Cemetery clean-up, Most of graffiti removed
The City of Québec is slowly but surely progressing in its revitalization of St. Matthew’s Cemetery-turned-city-park in the St-Jean-Baptiste neighborhood. Most of the anti-Anglo graffiti has been removed from the …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
The Morning Chronicle 1848 An inquest was held yesterday forenoon in view of the body of a little boy, two years and a-half, named Dodier, who died on Monday, and …
Remembering Boucher
Days after the first anniversary of the death of former Quebec City mayor Andrée Boucher, her elected successor, Régis Labeaume, confirmed the city’s plans for commemorating her contribution to public …
Tour guide deplores book purge
As a Québec City tour guide, I make a point of taking visitors to the chaussée des Écossais and talking about the contribution of the anglophone community to the history …
LHSQ is “selling our heritage”
Thomas Feininger’s eloquent letter in the August 6 Chronicle-Telegraph, “LHSQ’s Patrimony for Sale,” has now been answered in the August 20 QCT by David F. Blair, President of the Literary …
Society’s silent auction provokes outrage
I am sure I speak for many readers of the Chronicle when I express outrage and revulsion at what can only be characterized as the rank hypocrisy of David F. …