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CCAA golf event cancelled; Chouinard comes back with Blizzard
Published: July 15, 2020
Photo: SSF Blizzard
The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) has announced it will follow the lead of U Sports and has cancelled all its fall national championships.
The CCAA made the news public on June 12, and it means there will be no national championship for men’s and women’s soccer, cross-country running, or golf.
Did you have a child in the VEQ Nursery School in the late 1980s?
Published: July 15, 2020
Photo: Helen Meredith
Helen Meredith is trying to track down the woman who made this lovely cross-stitched WELCOME mat. Do you know her?
SNACS Book Fair provides summer reading
Published: July 8, 2020
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Photo: Cassandra Kerwin
Books, books and more books were available at the SNACS Summer Book Fair. After almost four months of pandemic confinement, Special Needs Activities And Community Services (SNACS) held their annual book fair at Quebec High School (QHS) from June 29 to July 3.
Protesters at National Assembly say, ‘No way, tramway!’
Published: July 8, 2020
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Photo: Shirley Nadeau
A large but peaceful group of people gathered in front of the National Assembly on July 5 to express their displeasure with Mayor Régis Labeaume’s plan to have a tramway system built in Quebec City.
They also serve who only stand and wait . . . *
Published: July 8, 2020
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If you’ve ever seen photos of the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike gold rush of 1896-1899, you’ll likely never forget them. A seemingly endless line of shabbily dressed men (and probably a few women), huge packs on their backs, is seen trudging step by agonizing step through deep snow up a steep trail.
Religious communities proceed with caution
Published: July 8, 2020
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Parishioners at St. Patrick’s Church in Quebec City had to take an unusual step before showing up at last Sunday’s mass – reserving spaces online via Eventbrite.
Pre-registration is just one of a number of steps that local religious congregations are taking to reduce the risk of reopening since the province allowed indoor gatherings of fewer than 50 people in late June.
City purchases a small piece of former Sainte-Foy DND land
Published: July 8, 2020
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The federal government has sold a small strip of former Department of National Defence (DND) land in Sainte-Foy to the City of Quebec for an unspecified sum. The acquisition of the strip of land on Boulevard Hochelaga, between Avenue Wolfe and Rue de la Vendée, allows the city to proceed with a project to widen the street, scheduled to begin soon.
The story behind Boulevard Langelier
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Published: July 8, 2020
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This street is named in honour of Sir François Langelier (1838-1915), who was born in Sainte-Rosalie (now part of Saint-Hyacinthe). He was a lawyer, a professor at the faculty of law at Université Laval from 1863 to 1915 and dean from 1892 to 1915. He was also a politician and the 10th lieutenant governor of Quebec, a journalist and an author.
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity welcomes visitors this summer
Published: July 8, 2020
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Dear music aficionados and friends of the cathedral,
Normally, we would have started our 11th season of Midi en musique on July 2. However, things being what they have been for the past few months, our weekly noon-hour concert meetings will have to wait until 2021.
