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Lions’ Guillaume Dubois wins first RSEQ golf tournament
Published: September 23, 2020
Photo: Vincent-Jean Dubé - SLC
CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence’s Guillaume Dubois shot a round of 70 on Sept. 20 to win the first Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) golf tournament of the year.
Sports briefs: Tam back with Remparts, Auger-Aliassime on the courts
Published: September 23, 2020
Photo: KHL
Former Québec Remparts captain Mikaël Tam is back with the team but this time as an assistant coach. He completes head coach Patrick Roy’s coaching staff.
OBITUARY: Diana May (née Coldwell) MEREDITH
Published: September 23, 2020
Diana May (née Coldwell) MEREDITH
January 22, 1928 – March 16, 2020
COVID-19 hurts young people too
Published: September 23, 2020
COVID-19 has come to be viewed as an old person’s disease, in part due to the way it tore through long-term care facilities with deadly consequences.
Tax returns due by Sept. 30
Published: September 23, 2020
Revenu Québec reminds Quebecers that they have barely one week, before midnight on Sept. 30, to submit their 2019 income tax returns in order to continue benefitting from the socio-fiscal programs to which they are entitled.
New beginnings for the Quebec City Women’s Club
Published: September 23, 2020
Photo: QCWC
Even before the pandemic, the Quebec City Women’s Club was at a crossroads. The annual Book Fair was our main activity to get together, to help each other out, to meet old friends and make new ones.
Autumn brings a burst of colour
Photos by Danielle Burns
Published: September 23, 2020
Sept. 22 marks the first official day of autumn. Trees are beginning to show their splendid fall colours, which don’t last long, so enjoy them while you can.
VEQ preparing a virtual version of the annual Fall Fest
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Cassandra Kerwin from QCT archives
For the past many years, the Voice of English-speaking Québec’s Fall Fest, a showcase for local community groups and organizations, has been held in the gymnasium of St. Vincent School, with fun bouncy castles for kids on the playground outside, a hot dog sale and many, many other things to see and do and eat. Local music, dance and theatre groups also perform.
Sommet de la montagne unveiled on Parliament Hill
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Shirley Nadeau
Normally, every summer in Quebec City, artists affiliated with EXMURO produce a series of unique works of art that can be discovered in unusual passageways – Passages Insolites – in the Lower Town from the VIA Rail station to the end of the Petit Champlain shopping area.
Wolfe monument on Plains a rare reminder of FLQ spree of terror
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Shirley Nadeau from QCT archives
The 50th anniversary of the October Crisis will soon be upon us.
City offers grants to green Limoilou lanes, but is process too complex?
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Jackie Smith
The city is offering residents and not-for-profit organizations grants of up to $10,000 to create projects to add more greenery to lanes in the Limoilou district.
Burke’s ‘last letter’ as board chair lauds staff, slams Bill 40
Published: September 16, 2020
After over 11 years as chairman of the Central Québec School Board (CQSB), Stephen Burke says he has likely sent his last letter to supporters of the English school system.
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
September 17, 1870 – The Morning Chronicle
The story behind Rue des Inuit
STREET VIEWS
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
This street is named for the Aboriginal peoples who live in the northern regions of Canada. Historically, the Inuit were called “Eskimos,” a term that came into use in the 17th century to describe people inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia.
‘Mr. Basketball’ Ted Gunn recalls ‘great times’ at former YMCA
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: George Ben from QCT archives
A recent story in the QCT about the opening of a new YMCA building in Quebec City stirred the memory of Ted Gunn, a well-known figure in the city’s anglophone community.
Gunn, the driving force, along with his wife Louise, in the preservation and celebration of the city’s Scottish heritage, also has a celebrated history with the YMCA in the town.
OBITUARY: Norma Marie (née Power) MARTINEAU
Published: September 16, 2020
Norma Marie (née Power) Martineau, 93, passed at Ian Anderson House in Oakville, Ont. on Sept. 5, 2020.
Les Violons du Roy reveal their fall program
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Shirley Nadeau
A few dozen people had an exceptional treat on Sept. 10 when they heard Les Violons du Roy perform live onstage in the Salle Raoul-Jobin of the Palais Montcalm. The occasion was the presentation of the new fall program of the Violons and La Chapelle de Québec, who will perform both in Quebec City and in Montreal.
Submit your candidacy soon for school board elections
Published: September 16, 2020
As you all know, the present Quebec government plans to replace school boards by school-service centres – this is already the case in the French school network. The nine English school boards have contested Bill 40 and a “stay” has been awarded the English boards. However, the government is contesting this “stay” and a decision from the Superior Court of Québec is imminent.
RSEQ and Quebec AAA Midget Hockey are back in action
Published: September 16, 2020
Photo: Jocelyn Gagné
The Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) and the Quebec AAA Midget Hockey League have been back in action since Sept. 14, when Premier François Legault confirmed the resumption of extracurricular activities.
Blueberry Sunday launch 'Melancholic Afternoon'
Published: September 9, 2020
Photo: Cassandra Kerwin
On Sept. 3, the local indie pop band Blueberry Sunday launched their first album, Melancholic Afternoon, at Bleuets du Viré-Crêpe in Saint-Nicolas. The musicians played on the rooftop overlooking the restaurant’s patio and blueberry fields; the cheering crowd were seated below, on picnic blankets and camp chairs.
It’s back to school for CQSB students
Published: September 9, 2020
Photo: Cassandra Kerwin
On Sept. 1, students and, at elementary schools, parents lined up outside Central Québec School Board (CQSB) schools. For the past six months, parents, students, faculty and staff have been anxiously awaiting this important date, hoping it would be the beginning of a return to “normality,” and not the beginning of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some former politicos become belles-mères; Couillard stays mum
Published: September 9, 2020
There’s no obvious English equivalent for the Quebec expression “belle-mère,” which describes a former politician who criticizes and meddles in the affairs of the government or party he or she left behind.
Will COVID-19 cases surge with students back in school?
Published: September 9, 2020
Photo: Danielle Burns
The QCT recently interviewed Dr. Gary Kobinger, founder and CEO of Global Urgent and Advanced Research and Development (GUARD). He is a professor in the department of microbiology and infectious diseases and the director of the research centre on infectious diseases, faculty of medicine at Université Laval.
The Rhapsodes choir return to the stage in October
Published: September 9, 2020
David Rompré and Les Rhapsodes choristers are delighted to return to the stage of the Palais Montcalm this autumn. Following the public health directives, the choir was able to resume their rehearsals, so that they can present the last two concerts of the previous season as well as their entire new season.
The story behind Rue Isidore-Thibaudeau
STREET VIEWS
Published: September 9, 2020
Photo: Photo Wikipedia
Isidore Thibaudeau was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was born in Neuville (formerly known as Pointe-aux-Trembles) in 1819. His father, Pierre-Chrisologue Thibaudeau, was a merchant of Acadian origin.
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
Published: September 9, 2020
Photo: Jean Gagnon from Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
September 10, 1870 – The Morning Chronicle
Music at the Island – The band of the Royal Artillery will perform [a] programme of music at Orleans on Saturday, 19th September, from 3 to 4:00 p.m., weather permitting.... The ferry-boat will make a special trip at 1:30 p.m.
September 9, 1895 – The Quebec Morning Chronicle
A Prediction
Concerts Couperin offers five concerts for 2020-2021
Published: September 9, 2020
For their 64th season, Concerts Couperin proposes five concerts, including the April 19 concert that was postponed due to COVID-19.
All concerts will be held on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. in the Chapelle du Musée de l’Amérique francophone, at 2 Côte de la Fabrique in Old Quebec.
So you think you know all there is to know about Canada, eh?
Published: September 9, 2020
Did you know . . .
• “Eh” is in the dictionary – several of them, in fact. Who’d have thought, eh?
• Canada is the second-largest country in the world. The largest is Russia.
• Ottawa is the second-coldest capital city. The coldest is Moscow.
Hello September!
Published: September 9, 2020
The QCT’s sports reporter Luc Lang captured the first sunrise of September with his iPhone camera. The photo was taken in Beauport, looking east toward Île d’Orléans, which can be seen behind the trees.
