Photo: Luc Lang

Quebec City golfer Anne-Catherine Tanguay is heading back out on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour.

The former CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lion had been taking some time off from the LPGA circuit since October 2019 to start a family with her husband and caddie, Jean-Hubert Trahan. The two now have a six-month-old daughter, Livia.

This nativity scene is located in front of Église Saint-Charles-Garnier.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

This street is named in honour of Jean-Jacques Bertrand, who was the 21st premier of Quebec from 1968 to 1970. A native of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, he was a member of the legislative assembly for the riding of Missisquoi from 1948 until his death in 1973.

Photo: Elias Djemil

To ring in the holiday season, Les Violons du Roy recorded Noëls baroques (Baroque Christmases) in November at the Palais Montcalm, under the direction of founding conductor Bernard Labadie.

Photo: Port of Quebec

Final public consultations were scheduled last week for the Laurentia container terminal project proposed for the Beauport sector of the city.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) organized two virtual sessions, on Dec. 8 and 10, to provide information and take questions on the agency’s draft report on the huge project.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

In 1895, the wedding between “William Molson Dobell, son of R.R. Dobell, Esq. … and Constance May Sewell, the charmingly pretty and highly popular daughter of Dr. Colin Sewell” made headlines in the Quebec Morning Chronicle of Dec. 9, 1895 as “A Brilliant Society Event.”

Photo: Ville de Québec

Quebec City recently added more fun-filled activities to Place Jean-Béliveau at ExpoCité. Plein les yeux et les oreilles (Fill your eyes and ears) invites visitors to become artists and musicians while following a trail composed of three interactive luminous works of art.

Photo: MiLB.com website

The Québec Capitales of the Frontier Baseball League (FBL) started their Christmas shopping early this offseason, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of their main recruits is catcher Ruben Castro, 24, from Puerto Rico.

Photo: Luc Lang

Quebec City’s two junior baseball teams will have new managers in 2021, and both of them once played for the Québec Capitales.

The Charlesbourg Alouettes have all but completed the contract details and are ready to hire Josué Peley as their new field boss.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain Illustration by John Leech 1843

The virus was not dead: to begin with.

Ebenezer Legault was busy in his accountability house, keeping an eye on his humble finance clerk Girard, shivering in his dismal little cubicle trying to balance the ledger.

Into the office with a tinkle of a bell came two gentlemen, representatives of the tavern-keepers’ and gym-owners’ benevolent societies.

Photo: Canadian Forces

The man tapped to lead an unprecedented nationwide vaccination campaign is a former commander at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier who is originally from Montmagny.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

December 4, 1820 – The Quebec Gazette
Cure For Tooth Ache
To a table spoonful of any kind of spirits, add the same quantity of sharp vinegar, and a tea spoonful of common table salt – mix well together; hold the liquid in the mouth that it can enter the cavity or hollow in the tooth; it will give almost instantaneous relief, without any pain.

Photo: Bill Cox

One year ago, my wife Denyse and I moved into a lovely seniors’ assisted-living residence in Sainte-Foy. We had all winter to participate in activities such as billiards, indoor pétanque and card games monitored by energetic and motivating young men and women.

Photo: Community Christmas Hamper Campaign

Due to COVID-19, all fundraising events for the Community Christmas Hamper Campaign are taking place online this year. Here are a few initiatives you can support:

Chocolate chip cookie and mac ’n cheese recipe ingredients in Mason jars are on sale, a joint initiative of SNACS and Rise. The deadline to order is Dec. 10.