“Its construction was considered a major engineering feat; for many years it was justifiably the pride of our city.” Yeah – and look at it now.I refer, of course, to…
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Memories of Marianna O’Gallagher
In the late 1990s, after a few attempts at locating copies of Marianna O’Gallagher’s books in the city, I finally ended up at La Maison Anglaise where the clerk told…
Memory Error … and the R100 Visits Quebec
In the February 23 issue of the QCT, under the title A Close Call, I recounted how, on their wedding eve, a lack of communication threatened my future parents’ nuptials….
High school students helping Haiti
With the currents event that are happening in Japan, it’s hard to believe that only a year has passed since the small country of Haiti was devastated by an earthquake.Today,…
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
1851The Morning ChronicleA man named Whitmore, said to be a recent importation from Dublin, has been committed to gaol to take his trial for stealing a silver ewer from a…
Paintings of Lt. Col. Charles Forbes
Forty-one works of art by the late Sir Jean-Charles Bertrand Forbes (1921-2010) were exhibited for sale at the Quebec Garrison Club on March 19 to benefit the Foundation of the…
Women’s Provincial Curling Championship Silver Medalists
Debbie Ford-Caron, skip of the team which proudly took home silver medals from the Senior Women’s Provincial Curling Championship 2011, held at the Huntingdon Curling Club from February 21 to…
Fearless Finn wins Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship
On Saturday, March 19, approximately 110,000 fans tightly packed the streets of Old Quebec to watch men and women skaters from around the world battle to the finish line in…
Senate Report on English-Speaking Quebec, the first of its kind
On March 9, 2011, the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages released a report on Anglophone life in the Province of Quebec, entitled “The Vitality of English Speaking Community from…
Free workshop offers coping stratgeies for caregivers dealing with dementia
Community members are invited to participate in afree teleconference session sponsored by Jeffery Hale Community Services inassociation with the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging. The teleconferencewill connect participants to…