The Wolfe Monument in front of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec is temporarily “topless” while the helmet and sword that normally cap the top of the famous column undergo restoration work by the National Battlefields Commission.

Photo: Action Réfugiés Montréal

Refugees bound for the Quebec City area have been stopped in their tracks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo: RCMP Nova Scotia

On the afternoon of April 19, local and national media reported that a lone gunman on a wild shooting spree had been apprehended by police in Enfield, N.S.

Photo: Luc Lang

The Québec Capitales baseball team, along with the other 13 teams in the newly expanded Frontier League, are looking at different scenarios for the 2020 season, which has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

During a telephone interview with the QCT on April 18, team president Michel Laplante said the league is looking at June 15 to start the season.

Photo: thewrap.com

At this time of year, sports fans usually have lots of games to choose from, both on television and online.

The Easter Bunny’s first stop to deliver some chocolate eggs in Old Quebec was on Dufferin Terrace, in front of the Château Frontenac.

Photo: Halsey Facebook page

When Premier François Legault took a stroll on the Plains of Abraham a few Saturdays ago, the possibility – perhaps inevitability – of a summer deprived of public gatherings in the city’s spectacular park must have been on his mind.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

April 15, 1895 – The Quebec Morning Chronicle
Portneuf
Owing to the recent heavy rain the water in the rivers on the north bank of the St. Lawrence rose very rapidly, breaking up the ice and carrying it down to the St. Lawrence. At Portneuf several bridges were swept away; also a pier above the Paper Mills of J. Ford & Co.

(With apologies to speculative fiction writers everywhere.)

"What did you do in the pandemic of 2020, Grandpa?”

Photo: Allison Blair

As borders closed and flights were cancelled due to the COVID crisis at the end of March, hundreds of thousands of Canadians scrambled to catch the last flights home. Allison Blair, visiting friends in Cambodia, was one of them – at first.

Photo: Dorothy Marcil

Better safe than sorry, Bunny! Dorothy Marcil and Douglas Renfroe, who spend their winters in Florida, have this delightful bunny keeping guard outside their door. Be sure to wash your paws before entering.

Photo: Université Laval

For the first time in 69 years, the annual Université Laval Rouge et Or sports gala was not a big, busy human event held on campus. This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has everyone isolated at home, the event had to be held online.

Over 500 student-athletes wore the red and gold colours of Université Laval sports teams in 2019-2020.

32nd Anniversary
Lena SHEEHAN
November 21, 1907 -
April 21, 1988

We thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.
We think of you in painful silence; we often speak your name to somehow ease the pain.
Now all we have are memories and your picture in a frame.
You memory is our keepsake with which we will never part.

Joe Lonergan, president of Irish Heritage Quebec (IHQ), sent out the following message to IHQ members on April 11:
“On behalf of the Board of Irish Heritage Quebec, I wish you all a Happy Easter and call your attention to the following resolution, which was adopted by the Board of Directors of Irish Heritage Quebec on April 10, 2020.”

Donation to Moisson Québec

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

NASA’s Apollo 13 mission will be forever known as the trip that ultimately didn’t make it to the surface of the Moon. Fifty years ago, on April 14, 1970, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph published the details of the unfolding crisis.