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Two wins in four games for St. Pat’s hockey teams
Published: December 11, 2019
Photo: Luc Lang
Something that has happened rarely this season, the two St. Patrick’s High Fighting Irish hockey teams were playing in the same arena at College Notre-Dame in Montreal and came back with a pair of wins in four games.
Sports briefs: Capitales, cross-country skiing and hockey
Published: December 11, 2019
Photo: Hockey Canada staff
The Quebec Capitales, of the Frontier Baseball League, acquired two new pitchers on Dec. 5. The Caps handed contracts to starting pitcher Yeudi Garcia and relief pitcher Frank Moscatiello.
SLC Lions hockey team go into the holidays tied for first
Published: December 11, 2019
The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions hockey team will start 2020 tied for first place with the Cégep de Thetford Filons in the Northeast division of the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ).
Shannon’s St. Joseph’s Chapel – 75 years blessed
Published: December 5, 2019
Photo: St. Joseph’s Chapel
On Dec. 1, St. Joseph’s Chapel in Shannon marked its 75th anniversary. Erected in 1944 on land leased from the Quebec Power Company for $1 a year, the chapel was a project spearheaded by the parishioners.
Scheer conundrum: Conservatives have a tortured history of ousting leaders
Published: December 5, 2019
To paraphrase Napoleon: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.”
This much mutated military maxim is surely on the minds of the wily strategists in the Liberal Party of Canada war room. And, make no mistake, being in command of a minority government of indefinite shelf-life, the party is on a perpetual war footing.
The first edition of Evenings with Leaders a success
Published: December 5, 2019
Photo: CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence
CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence held the first of its series of Evenings with Leaders on Nov. 14 in the iA Financial Group Auditorium. Students, alumni, partners and members of the community were invited.
SOS violence conjugale campaign targets young people
Because violence is not always striking…
Published: December 5, 2019
SOS violence conjugale recently launched a campaign aimed at raising awareness among 15-to-25-year-olds about the first signs of psychological violence. Well before the more obvious physical violence, a whole range of behaviours is already at work and paving the way.
The story behind Rue Eugène-Chinic
STREET VIEWS
Published: December 5, 2019
Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
Guillaume-Eugène Chinic (1818-1889) was born in Quebec City. At a very early age, probably around 15, he began working for François-Xavier Méthot, who owned a hardware store on Rue Saint-Pierre. Méthot also ran a nail factory, a putty factory and a millstone factory.
In 1844 Chinic married Marie-Anne Leblond of Montreal. They had 12 children, only six of whom survived to adulthood.
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
Published: December 5, 2019
Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain
December 3, 1819 – The Quebec Gazette
New Town
