Pee-Wee Tournament to build back bigger
The Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament may be cancelled for 2021, but it will be back bigger and stronger in 2022.That was the promise made by the tournament’s president, Michel …
Year-end honours for COVID fighters
It has become a tradition, here at the QCT, that in the last issue of the year, we present the annual “LUC-ky” Awards, handed to the female and male athletes …
Place Jean-Béliveau resounds with musical lights
A young couple enjoy the luminous musical seesaws, part of an art installation called Impulse. When one side tilts down, a musical note can be heard and the other half …
Château Frontenac ‘decks the halls’ for Christmas
The main hall of the Château Frontenac is lined with 12 beautifully decorated Christmas trees for the seventh edition of Arbres de l’Espoir (trees of hope), the annual fundraiser for …
Christmas cards for Christmas hampers
Students at Ste-Foy Elementary School are bursting with Christmas cheer. The Cycle 3 students are once again creating greeting cards to add to the boxes of groceries put together by …
‘Videos from the North Pole’ are a real FUNraiser
It is unlikely to surprise anyone to learn that the Coronavirus Grinch prevented Santa from dropping by the Jeffery Hale Hospital this year for the HO! HO! HO! Here We …
Tourny Fountain under wraps for the winter
The Tourny Fountain, located in the traffic circle in front of the National Assembly on Boulevard Honoré-Mercier, has been wrapped up in a plastic overcoat for the winter to protect …
The story behind Rue Jovette-Bernier
This street is named in honour of Jovette-Alice Bernier (1900-81), a journalist and writer, born in Saint-Fabien-de-Rimouski. Because of the extensive exposure she received in print media and on the …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
December 26, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleThe Season – The streets on Saturday presented a gay holiday appearance, and were early peopled with eager purchasers of the good things necessary, …
COVID outbreak at Saint Brigid’s claims lives
Saint Brigid’s Home in Quebec City is currently enduring the worst COVID-19 outbreak in a long-term care facility in the Capitale-Nationale region, according to data provided by the ministry of …