Raymond George Ward, son of Emily Leblanc and Lorne Ward, died recently in Quebec City at the age of 81.
Raymond is survived by two brothers: Graham (Kathy) and Garry (Doris) and three sisters: Lorna (the late Andy), Joan (Gary), and Barbara (Garry).
Nieces and nephews include Emily, Sean, Alyson, Matthew, Kimberly, Amanda and the late Nathan.

This great blue heron (Ardea herodias) was spotted by QCT photojournalist Lise Lafond while kayaking along the Rivière Cabano, which runs into Lac Témiscouata.

If we are learning anything about leadership in the wake of a spate of recent conventions, it’s that it helps to have a good story to succeed in politics.

Kamala Harris has her inspiring tale of rising from one of the first groups of Black kids bused to a desegregated school to become the first woman, first Black or first Black woman in an ascending series of public positions.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

Born in Quebec City in 1877, Irma LeVasseur (1877-1964) became the first woman* to practise medicine in Quebec.

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A generation before Harry Houdini, audiences were thrilled by the magical stage productions of Alexander “The Great” Herrmann. Known as “the great undisputed monarch of conjurers,” Herrmann was born in Paris in 1844 to a family of performers. At the age of eight, he began as a magician’s assistant to his older brother.

Photo: Photo archives QMJHL

The Québec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) started their 2020-2021 training camp on Aug. 31 at the Videotron Centre.

In accordance with the guidelines of the provincial health authorities, the league has allowed all the teams to have a maximum of 34 players at their training camps.

Photo: Mika Dopheide

Blueberry Sunday will be performing their very first live

Photo: Danielle Burns

The Machine de Cirque (MDC) has been dealing with COVID-19 challenges that have forced the group to cancel or postpone tour dates. In direct response to the pandemic, this local circus arts organization created an ad hoc show called FLEUVE, inspired by the St. Lawrence River.

It’s hard to think of any one thing or person that’s put Quebec “on the map” in a positive way in recent years more than the Cirque du Soleil. Fellow Las Vegas act Celine Dion, sure, but after that, what or who else?

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August 27, 1870 – The Morning Chronicle

Photo: Lise Lafond

Tucked away on Highway 293 between Trois-Pistoles and Lac Témiscouata is the municipality of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, with a population of 1,600. This is the town where award-winning French-Canadian novelist, playwright and publisher Victor-Lévy Beaulieu once lived, and where his television series, Bouscotte, was filmed from 1997 to 2001.

On Aug. 23, the eve of teachers’ return to school and only a few days before the students’ return, parents, students and school staff held a rally in front of the offices of the Minister of Education in Montreal to express their concerns and dissatisfaction with the back-to-school plan.

For the past three years, the Port of Quebec has organized a historical pedestrian rally in the Old Port area. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, a virtual rally has been organized. The rally team recently sent the QCT the following information to share with our readers:

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

Can you imagine walking among much-larger-than-life works of art by Vincent Van Gogh projected on enormous screens? Visitors are not sure whether they are immersed in the paintings or the paintings are immersed in them.

Photo: Screenshot from Google Maps

You might call it a sign of the times. If you drive east along Montreal’s Sainte-Catherine Street, just before it splits off to Dorchester Boulevard, you will go by a 1960s-era institutional building, with tall concrete pillars and glass blocks adorning the entrance. The signage on the structure, in large metal letters above the columns, is simply one word: Westmount.