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The Université Laval Rouge et Or women’s track and field team has won its first medal ever at the U Sports national championship. The event took place on the campus of the University of Alberta in Edmonton on March 7.

Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. – Open Book Intercultural Dialogues: Memory and Identity at the Morrin Centre, 44 Chaussée des Écossais in Old Quebec. During this panel discussion, authors Caroline Vu (That Summer in Provincetown) and Zalika Reid-Benta (Frying Plantain) will talk about their latest books and the theme of memory and identity with moderator Liani Lochner.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

Warmer weather and the March break can only mean one thing for local car enthusiasts – the Salon international de l’Automobile de Québec, the Car Show. More than 70,000 visitors entered the Centre de Foires at ExpoCité to see hundreds of vehicles and to dream about the luxury cars in the Silverwax Pavilion.

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For music fans, it’s like Christmas morning on a February afternoon.

That’s because the folks behind the Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ) have ripped the wrapping off a huge pile of gifts to thrill fans of just about every type of popular music.

Photo: Westmount Examiner from archives

Say what you will about U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a serious contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination – at least he’s been consistent.

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This street honours musician Georges Dor (Georges-Henri Doré), who was born in 1931, the youngest of a family of 11 children of Irish ancestry. Dor worked in a factory in Drummondville from 1948 to 1952. He then studied for a year at the École du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal. In the winter of 1953, he worked on the Bersimis Dam on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River.

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Normally, to be heard over the din of nearly 700 teenagers waiting for the beginning of a day of outdoor sports, one would have to scream. But Capt. Line Bourgeois didn’t have to.

“Are we going to have fun today?” she called into the silent gym at Collège des Compagnons in Sainte-Foy.
“Oui, mon capitaine!” the teens chorused, standing at attention.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

From Feb. 27-29, the iA Financial Group Auditorium was transformed into a psychiatric ward. The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence theatre troupe members were either patients or medical staff in Ken Kesey’s classic psychological thriller One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Photo: Ruby Pratka

Victor Dzomo, Florent Tchatchaoua and their collaborators at the Conseil panafricain de Québec (COPAQ) planted 29 trees to mark the 29 days of Black History Month. But the roots of the African presence in Quebec City stretch down deeper than the roots of all but the oldest tree.

DODDRIDGE, Nancy (Dawson)
1929-2020

Mrs. Nancy Dawson died peacefully at Saint Brigid’s Home, on Feb. 28, 2020, in her 90th year. She was the wife of the late Elwin Russel Doddridge and the daughter of the late Emma Billingsley and the late Archibald Dawson. She lived in Quebec City.

Photo: Lise Lafond

CBC Quebec team members Peter Tardif, Spencer Van Dyk, Cassandra Leader, Kim Garrity, Glenn Wanamaker, Julia Caron, Karl Vincent and Susan Campbell hosted a community skate at Shannon Winterfest on Feb. 29.

The comfortable weather was ideal for skating on the ice path that meanders through the woods near the Chalet des Sports. The path was lined with snow-covered trees on both sides.

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The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions hockey team, which finished third overall in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) regular season standings, will play the Filons of Cégep de Thetford in the second round of the playoffs this weekend.

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After the visit of the 2019 NBA champion Toronto Raptors, Université Laval announced that Canada’s Olympic men’s volleyball team would stop at the university in early May for three days of training as they prepare for the 2020 Olympic Games.

What’s more fun for amateur historians than the endless possibilities of alternate histories?